Substitute teachers during the pandemic: requirements, benefits, and pay
Although districts reopening schools virtually may have less need for substitute teachers due to teachers' reduced exposure to illness, districts...
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Why, then, do teachers leave?
Teacher turnover has proven to be not only costly for schools, but also detrimental to teacher effectiveness and student learning....
Testing, testing… Are teachers less likely to quit when states stop testing?
Does removing the stress of a standardized test keep teachers in the classroom?
Is undergraduate preparation the best way to train a teacher?
Unlike any other state, the majority of Texas teachers are prepared by non-traditional programs.
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Meeting the moment: Preparing teachers to teach for equity
What is it going to take for teachers to enter the classroom ready to close the opportunity gap, rather than...
To do right by students with disabilities, principals need better tools
A recent study from CALDER provides some insight into how a lack of information may contribute to the challenge of...
The powerful impact of Black role models
A new study finds that the presence of Black teachers in advanced track courses produces a higher probability of Black...
Dueling endorsements
Some sensible solutions sometimes turn out to be counterproductive. A prime example may exist in Washington state, which recently instituted...
A bottom-up approach to school openings
Never much a defender of local control in education, I now think we have nothing to lose by shifting some...
What we’re reading: D.C. Voices: Teacher retention and recruitment during the pandemic
New analysis from Chelsea Coffin and Tanaz Meghjani at the D.C. Policy Center explores some of the teacher workforce data...
Supporting teachers through mentoring and collaboration
As school districts work out next year's instructional format and take stock of their teacher workforce, districts in a position...
A letter from Baltimore City Schools CEO Dr. Sonja Santelises
We must recommit ourselves, examine our own practices, and disrupt the insidious barriers that have plagued our education system and...
A letter from NCTQ Board Member Mike Miles: The Courage to Address Systemic Inequity
As school and systems leaders, we have a real opportunity now to change the education system to provide a better...
The emerging science on predicting if a teacher will be effective
Researchers have spent decades investigating the most valid predictors and measures of teacher quality, with one of the hopes being...
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More evidence that teacher evaluation works
Well before COVID-19 hit, many states had backed away from only recently adopted teacher evaluation policies. With COVID-19 now dominating...
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