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Oftentimes research is way out ahead of the conventional wisdom. Occasionally though, common sense ends up being justified by research.
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Who does it better? Comparing undergraduate and graduate teacher training programs
It's reasonable to assume that a master's degree in teaching should provide new teachers with a leg up compared to...
Are teacher prep programs all alike?
A new paper adds to the growing body of research pointing out just how difficult it is to tell teacher...
Teaching teachers in Mississippi
Mississippi had to do something. Between 1992 and 2013, no more than 55 percent of its 4th grade children...
Changing Reading Instruction by the Book
Among the biggest surprises NCTQ encountered in researching our December 2016 Landscape in Teacher Preparation – Undergraduate Elementary were the...
Changing the Landscape
We've made some changes to the Review- here's the what and the why.
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Give these teachers some shade
Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants. Justice Brandeis' famous dictum for disclosure may have a limit: the...
Know any aspiring teachers? Send them a copy of this book ASAP
When I was in college, several of my courses required the purchase of what the professors indicated were canonical texts. Calculus required...
Hypothesis Testing…and testing…and testing
Do higher scoring students get assigned higher value-added teachers? Maybe— but more work is needed to really tell. Early in 2014, Chetty,...
Seeing is believing
Which programs place their student teachers in high-poverty, high-performing schools?
Memorize to think critically. . .
Facts and memorization are bad words in K-12 education -- they shouldn't be.
Someone cheated. Who's responsible?
Over the past few months, allegations of cheating seem to be a dime a dozen.
A "b" is not a "d"
Careful readers of NCTQ's work know that we care deeply about reading research and that we frequently highlight Willingham's work....
Tuesday is PISA Day
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) released the PISA 2012 data collection results today which summarize the results...
Pieces of the puzzle fitting together
It's not often that quantitative work in education research is as complementary as two recent working papers on student sorting.
Say what? The research may not say what you think it says
As if the educational research landscape were not hard enough to navigate, a new article in July's Perspectives on Psychological...
Week two of the Forum
Another week, another set of responses to score appeals posted to the Forum
An awesome responsibility
Two teachers' awesome responsibility: teaching children how to read.
We'd love to do more work!
A good sign: More institutions want us to rate more of their programs
Getting some sleep
Daniel Willingham takes us through sleep deprivation research relating to teens and schools.
Will education have its Pronovost moment?
What the teaching profession needs from teacher preparation