National Council for Teacher Quality Review: A Stacked Deck? In this post I am going to show that the make up of the NCTQ review of teacher prep panels represents a "stacked deck." Instead of working with teacher educators directly, the NCTQ uses...
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Teacher Educators are Teachers First by Practicing What They Teach
Teacher Educators are Teachers First by Practicing what they Teach. This is the first of several posts that will be published here about the art of teacher education. There is a rich body of research on teacher education, and I will make use of recent work that shows...
What Sort of Teacher Preparation Programs Does the Gates Foundation Support?
Did you know that between 2008 and 2013, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation provided more than $37 million in funding for teacher preparation projects? What sort of teacher preparation programs does the Gates Foundation support? Only 8% of these funds were awarded...
What is Georgia’s Race to the Top Plan for New Teachers?
What is the Georgia Race to the Top (RT3) Plan for New Teachers? Teach for America The simple answer is to hire inexperienced and uncertified teachers through contractual arrangements with Teach for America, a political action organization that provides boot camp...
How Georgia Could Turn Around Turnaround Schools
Georgia, like other states, has identified schools whose students and teachers have been labeled failures on the basis of high-stakes tests. These tests measure the narrowest and possibly the least important aspects of schooling, namely the ability to answer multiple...
Georgia’s Turnaround Plan: Hire TFA and TNTP Cadets
Like all states that were winners in the Race to the Top (RT3) competition, Georgia's scope of work entails four "project" areas: (1) standards and assessment (2) data systems (3) great teachers and leaders and (4) turn around the lowest achieving schools. In this...
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