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Tackling the STEM crisis: Five steps your state can take to improve the quality and quantity of its K-12 math and science teachers
Strong K-12 math and science preparation ensures that college freshmen are capable of diving into demanding STEM* majors rather than treading water in remedial courses. That’s better for them and for our nation’s future. State laws and regulations can help to build a bigger and better pipeline of K-12 teachers who will savor, not skirt, rigorous math and science instruction.
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+ Download report |
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Are You Qualified to Teach Elementary School Math?
Now available, a newly formatted version of Exit with Expertise, NCTQ’s mathematics test for elementary teachers that first appeared in No Common Denominator: The Preparation of Elementary Teachers in Mathematics by America’s Education Schools |
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+ Download the test and answer key |
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Human Capital in Hartford Public Schools
NCTQ releases the first of several studies that examines teacher policies in a number of urban districts. |
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+ Download report |
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+ View press release |
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NCTQ's State Teacher Policy Yearbook, a 51-volume encyclopedia with a national summary that takes an unparalleled look at what states are doing to improve teacher quality and laying out a blueprint for reform. |
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+ Download your state report for 2008 |
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+ Download your state report for 2007 |
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+ Visit the STPY 2008 website |
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+ Visit the STPY 2007 website |
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+ Contact us for help in your state |
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Invisible Ink in Collective Bargaining Agreements
NCTQ takes a close look at the governance of the teaching profession and finds that state legislators and other state-level policymakers crafting state laws and regulation, not those bargaining at the local level, decide some of the most important rules governing the teaching profession.
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Teacher Rules, Roles and Rights
Explore and compare the intricacies of collective bargaining agreements, board policies, district calendars, salary schedules, benefits packages, and teacher handbooks from the nation's 100 largest school districts and the laws of 50 states. |
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+ Visit the website |
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+ Read papers from TR3 research competition on the impact of unions and collective bargaining. |
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+ Enlist NCTQ to help put student needs front and center in your teachers' contract. |
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NCTQ Releases Study of Reading Preparation in Indiana Education Schools: As a follow up to NCTQ’s national study on how well elementary teachers are prepared to teach reading, NCTQ looks at reading preparation in Indiana. |
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+ Read the executive summary |
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+ Read the full report |
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No Common Denominator: The Preparation of Elementary Teachers in Mathematics by America's Education Schools
In this second of a series of reports on the quality of teacher preparation, NCTQ looks at how well elementary teachers are prepared in mathematics at a representative sampling of 77 institutions. |
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+ Download the Executive Summary or Full Report |
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+ Order the Executive Summary free of charge |
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+ Read more |
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Alternative Certification Isn't Alternative, a report from NCTQ and the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, examines the current realities of alternate routes, originally intended as a fast track way to get talented individuals into teaching. |
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+ Download the pdf |
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What Education Schools Aren't Teaching About Reading and What Elementary Teachers Aren't Learning
In this groundbreaking report, NCTQ studied a large representative sampling of ed schools to find out what future elementary teachers are--and are not--learning about reading instruction. The report, the most comprehensive of its kind, determined that too many education schools are ignoring some of the principles of good reading instruction. |
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+ Download the Executive Summary or Full Report |
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+ Order the Executive Summary free of charge |
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If Wishes Were Horses: The Reality Behind Teacher Quality Findings
NCTQ urges caution on performance pay. |
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+ Download the Executive Summary |
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Robbing Peter to Pay Paul: The Case Against "Comparability"
Going against the grain, NCTQ asserts that federal efforts to force school districts to achieve full "comparability" and "equitable distribution of teachers" is NOT good for poor kids. |
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+ Download the pdf |
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Steps that Congress can take to improve teacher quality--without overstepping its bounds
NCTQ's recommendations for teacher quality provisions in NCLB and HEA reauthorizations. |
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+ Download the pdf |
