Alternative Certification
Teacher Preparation
A Crucial First Year for Newly Minted Teachers
A TNTP paper argues the first year of teaching provides vital clues to how a teacher will do over the long haul.
Teacher Preparation
TFA Alumni Aid New Teachers in New Orleans
A group started by former Teach For America members helps novices navigate the cultural and instructional challenges they face in the city's schools.
School & District Management
Bigger Math Gains Seen In Middle School TFA Teachers' Pupils
A large-scale, quasi-experimental study finds math gains among middle-school students taught by TFA novices and alumni.
Teacher Preparation
California Panel to Raise 'Intern' Teacher Standards
California's standards board is poised to require teacher "interns" to receive more training on English-learners.
Teacher Preparation
TFA's Wendy Kopp Transitions Into Board Role
Wendy Kopp will step down as the CEO of Teach For America and assume the role of board chairwoman.
Teacher Preparation
Opinion
Ohio's Guiding Principles for Alternative Compensation Systems -- By Educators, For Educators
Over the past six months, I have had the extreme honor of working with the Ohio Department of Education, four Ohio County Educational Service Centers, and the American Institutes for Research, as well as teachers, union leaders, principals, HR employees, and central office staff from 21 Ohio public and charter school districts to create guiding principles for local and state education leaders who wish to explore, design, and implement an alternative compensation system (ACS). After sharing the group's report at Ohio's Annual Statewide Education Conference earlier this month as well as through presentations at other events outside the state, I realized that many people are eager for more information about alternative compensation in education.
Teacher Preparation
Budget Bill Touches on 'Highly Qualified' Issue
School districts have some funding information to go on for the next six months, thanks to a bill that passed the U.S. House of Representatives and is expected to gain approval in the Senate.
Teacher Preparation
Democrats Introduce Bill to Overhaul Teacher Training
Democratic Representative Mike Honda (D-Calif.) and Senator Jack Reed (D-R.I.) have introduced companion bills that would reauthorize and make major changes to federal laws governing teacher preparation, including the reporting requirements, accountability provisions, and TEACH grant scholarship program.
Teacher Preparation
NCATE Accredits First 'Nontraditional' Program
The national teacher-college accreditation body has approved its first nontraditional, non-university-based program.
Teacher Preparation
Fla. Teacher Training Routes Vary in Effectiveness, Study Shows
A variety of Florida alternative certification programs attracted a more qualified-on-paper group of teacher candidates compared to traditionally certified teachers, but varied in how effective graduates were in the classroom, a new study shows.
Teacher Preparation
Negotiators Selected for Teacher Prep Regulatory Overhaul
The U.S. Department of Education has selected the panelists who will write new regulations for the reporting requirements for teacher preparation programs.
Teacher Preparation
NEA's Van Roekel Takes Heat for Commentary With TFA's Kopp
Dennis Van Roekel responds to criticism from members about an op-ed he penned with TFA's Wendy Kopp.
Teacher Preparation
New Data on Teacher Education Begins to Flow
States, institutions, and the federal government are starting to generate new data on teacher education to meet the requirements of the Higher Education Act's 2008 rewrite.
Teacher Preparation
TNTP to Incorporate Student Surveys into Evaluations
Teacher-training group TNTP plans to incorporate a student-feedback measure into the system it's developing to evaluate its teachers, becoming one of first organizations in the nation to use such measures formally.