National Board Certification
School & District Management
Standards Board Identifies Research to Examine Effects
The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, facing up to increased pressure to prove it can make a difference in schools, last week outlined plans for 22 new studies examining how its certification process affects the quality of teaching and learning.
Education
Opinion
Should States Subsidize National Certification?
Michael Podgursky argues that national board certification for teachers is of dubious value and should be put to the 'market test.'
Education
National Certification Found Valid For Teachers
Teachers certified by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards are better teachers on a variety of measures than those who tried to meet the standards but fell short, a study released last week concludes.
Education
R.I. District Investing In National Board Certification
One Rhode Island district has embraced National Certification to the tune of $80,000 annually.
Teacher Preparation
National Certifications Triple Since Last Year
The nation now has nearly 4,800 teachers who have met the standards for accomplished practice set by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards.
Education
Opinion
Some Unanswered Questions Concerning National Board Certification of Teachers
| How well will the board discriminate when thousands of applicants seek certification through a bureaucraticized system? No one knows. |
Education
Miss. Measure To Give Pay Boost To Nationally Certified Teachers
Gov. Kirk Fordice of Mississippi has signed legislation rewarding teachers certified by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards.
Education
Teaching Board Boosts Certification Fee to $2,000
The cost of national teacher certification is going up.
Education
Board Awards Certificates in Middle School English
A select group of 90 middle school English teachers has been awarded the first national certificates of accomplished teaching in that field.
Education
National Certification Now A Reality
The teachers were selected from 289 candidates who completed a field test of the board's assessment for generalists who work with children in early adolescence. An additional 252 candidates finished the exercises designed for middle school English and language arts teachers. They will find out this summer whether they met the standards of accomplished teaching that the assessments are designed to measure.
Education
Board Sets Field-Test of National Teaching Certificate
The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, which has been primarily concerned with research and development since its founding in 1987, is now preparing to offer the first national certificates to highly accomplished teachers.
Education
National Board Revises Prerequisites for Certification of Teachers
In a change to one of its most controversial policies, the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards has decided that candidates for national certification must hold valid state teaching licenses.
Teaching Profession
Pilot Test Offers a Glimpse of Board's Teacher Assessment
Educators have wondered what the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards' assessments for superior teachers would look like.
Education
Opinion
National Teacher Certification: A Quality Guarantee?
Can certification by the National Board for Professional Teaching
Standards provide a guarantee of teacher quality? Perhaps. But we
suspect not if the requirements for a board certificate remain as they
are. Our judgment is based on three concerns about the N.B.P.T.S.
requirements: their public credibility, their technical feasibility,
and their conceptual clarity.