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Invisible Ink in Collective Bargaining Agreements, July 2008 |
| 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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No Common Denominator: The Preparation of Elementary Teachers in Mathematics by America's Education Schools, June 2008 |
| American students' chronically poor performance in mathematics on international tests may begin in the earliest grades, handicapped by the weak knowledge of mathematics of their own elementary teachers. NCTQ looks at the quality of preparation provided by a representative sampling of institutions in nearly every state. We also provide a test developed by leading mathematicians which assesses for the knowledge that elementary teachers should acquire during their preparation. Imagine the implications of an elementary teaching force being able to pass this test.
Note rating change: Our rating for The College of New Jersey has been upgraded to "an education school that would pass with better focus and textbooks." |
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Alternative Certification Isn't Alternative, September 2007 |
| A new 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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If Wishes Were Horses: The Reality Behind Teacher Quality, September 2007 |
| To improve teacher quality, there's little doubt that we need to reform how teachers get paid. Before districts leap with such enthusiasm into performance pay experiments, a little knowledge about the limitations of value- added methodologies and the tests themselves could help schools avoid fundamentally flawed designs. |
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Robbing Peter to Pay Paul: The Case Against 'Comparability', September 2007 |
| Going against the grain, NCTQ asserts that federal efforts to force school districts to achieve full "comparability" and "equitable distribution of teachers" are NOT good for poor kids. |
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State Teacher Policy Yearbook 2007, June 2007 |
| The first edition of the State Teacher Policy Yearbook 2007 provides both an unprecedented analyses of the teacher policies in every state as well as an ambitious but realistic blueprint for reform. |
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Steps that Congress can take to improve teacher quality without overstepping its bounds, April 2007 |
| NCTQ's recommendations for teacher quality provisions in NCLB and HEA reauthorizations.
National Council on Teacher Quality |
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What Education Schools Aren't Teaching About Reading--and What Elementary Teachers Aren't Learning, May 2006 |
| 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 education schools are ignoring the principles of good reading instruction that would prepare prospective teachers how to better teach reading. |
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| Here's quick access to the ratings of all reading texts and backgrounds on our team of reviewers. |
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Teacher Education: Coming up Empty, March 2006 |
| NCTQ President Kate Walsh takes on teacher education in a new essay published for the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation's white paper series "Fwd: Arresting Insights in Education." Walsh highlights a recent study in which the nation's leading teacher educators admit that there's little evidence to prove the effectiveness of teacher ed. While applauding the panel's admission of this failure, she calls them out on a lack of attention to both the achievement gap and scientific reading strategies. In her own words: "In ignoring the role that teacher education could play in giving teachers the necessary skills to alleviate the ill-effects of poverty, the profession misses its best chance to counter its many critics." |
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NCTQ Square-Off, July 2005
Are Teachers Underpaid?
Two economists tackle an intractable controversy |
| Over the past year, two economists--Michael Podgursky, currently Middlebush Professor and Chairman in the Department of Economics at the University of Missouri-Columbia, and Lawrence Mishel, President of the Economic Policy Institute in Washington, D.C.--have been debating whether or not teachers are adequately paid, at least compared to other professionals with comparable training. |
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NCTQ Reports, Winter 2004
SEARCHING THE ATTIC: How States Are Responding to the Nation's Goal of Placing a Highly Qualified Teacher in Every Classroom |
| NCTQ releases the second in a series of reports that examines states' progress-or lack thereof-in meeting the ambitious new federal requirement that by the end of the 2006 school year there will be a "highly qualified teacher" in every classroom in the nation. |
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Increasing the Odds, October 2004 |
| This is a highly readable, visually dynamic 12-page booklet designed to give policymakers a great synthesis of the most recent, responsible research on the attributes of effective teachers. We give you the straight story on what qualities of a prospective teacher matter a lot ... and what doesn't matter as much as you might think. It's an excellent tool for state and local school boards, department of education staff members, superintendents and legislators -- anyone who wants to do a better job of designing policies that will increase the odds of putting more effective teachers in classrooms across the country. |
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A Qualified Teacher in Every Classroom? Appraising Old Answers and New Ideas, April 2004 |
Harvard Education Press
Eds. Frederick M. Hess, Andrew J. Rotherham, and Kate Walsh |
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NCTQ Reports, Spring 2004
NECESSARY AND INSUFFICIENT: Resisting a Full Measure of Teacher Quality |
| Christopher O. Tracy and Kate Walsh |
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Attracting, Developing and Retaining Effective Teachers, October 2004 |
| The National Council on Teacher Quality in partnership with the U.S. Department of Education International Affairs Office prepared this report as part of an international project with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
This report presents a balanced picture of the debate on teacher quality in the U.S. and focuses on the aspects of teacher policy dealing with attracting, recruiting, developing and retaining effective teachers by synthesizing relevant research, identifying innovative and successful policy practices, facilitating exchanges of lessons among countries and identifying policy options. Fully vetted by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), no other publication includes comprehensive data about such a diverse group of topics. Covering issues from teaching requirements to retirement, this is a large 25-nation study and is the first of its kind on teacher issues. |
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Teacher Certification Reconsidered: Stumbling for Quality, December 2001 |
The Abell Foundation
Kate Walsh, Senior Policy Analyst |
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Stumbling for Quality, Report Appendix, December 2001 |
| View analyses of over 150 studies dating from 1945 through 2001 that explored the relationship of teacher certification and teacher effectiveness. The studies here comprise a complete and comprehensive list of all studies cited by certification advocates as offering evidence of certification's value. Many of these studies cannot be found through routine sources, as they are too old or were never published. Analysis includes "quality checks" noting if the study was subjected to a peer review and if it controlled for necessary variables such as student poverty. |
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