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 call research. In the last post I used...
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 junk science. Matthew Weinstein,...
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, the National Council on Teacher Quality...
In this post I am going to share some thinking about teaching that I learned along my journey as a teacher from three people. I future posts I'll share thoughts about teaching from other people who I've met along the way. What everybody ought to know about...
The National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) is leading the assault on teacher education in the U.S. According to the President of this organization "Ed schools don't give teachers the tools they need." NCTQ's president, Kate Walsh, has led the assault claiming...
No doubt you've read the news reports telling us that Marissa Mayer, the CEO of Yahoo, informed all Yahoo employees that they could no longer work at home. There were many people who felt that Mayer did not understand the value of having employees work at home. Some...
