The Artistry of Teaching
The artistry of teaching is a commitment to the idea that there is more to teaching than the...
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What’s the Formula for Designing Rigorous Standards for Teacher Preparation?
What’s the Formula for Designing Rigorous Standards for Teacher Preparation? Read on to find out. The Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP) published recommendations for Accreditation Standards and...
Read MoreLow Levels & Bottom-Feeders: Education Through the Eyes of Educationnext
A colleague in Massachusetts alerted me to an article in Educationnext, an opinion and research site sponsored by the Hoover Institution and The Thomas Fordham Institute. The article, written by the editor-in-chief of...
Read MoreA Letter to The Fordham Institute
Dear Colleagues at The Fordham Institute, The American Education Research Association (AERA) developed a framework for Scientifically Based Research (SBR) in 2008. The SBR definition described below was supported by the AERA...
Read MoreFordham Institute’s Evaluation of Next Generation Science Standards Rated as Junk Science
Fordham Institute’s Final Evaluation of Next Generation Science Standards (Fordham Evaluation) Rated as Junk Science. In this post I am going to provide evidence that the Fordham Evaluation of Next Generation Science...
Read MoreWhy We Should Reject The Fordham Institute’s Opinion of the Next Generation Science Standards
In this post I am going to give evidence that the Fordham Institute’s evaluation of the Next Generation Science Standards should be rejected. The Thomas Fordham Institute is a conservative advocacy think tank which issues...
Read MoreResults Are In: NCTQ Report on Teacher Prep Rated with Four Cautions
In the last four posts, I have written articles that call out the National Council on Teacher Quality on the basis of their built-in bias against teacher preparation institutions, and their confrontational style of what they...
Read MoreIs the NCTQ Report on Teacher Prep Junk Science?
In this post I am going to look at the question Is the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) Report on Teacher Prep Junk Science? In my last post, I suggested that the NCTQ report on teacher preparation is an example of...
Read MoreNCTQ Report on Teacher Prep: the Devil is in the Detail
NCTQ Report on Teacher Prep: the Devil is in the Detail. I decided to read the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) Report on Teacher Prep to try to learn what the NCTQ had to say about teacher prep in the U.S. Last week,...
Read MoreNCTQ's Assault on Teacher Education
In May 2012 and April 2013 I wrote articles on this blog about the National Council on Teacher Quality, and its haunting assault on teacher education. In the May 2012 article, I reviewed the NCTQ’s study of assessment and...
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