Washington, D.C. -- New analysis from the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) reveals both astonishingly high numbers of elementary teacher candidates failing their professional licensing tests each year, as well as widespread evidence that...
Washington, D.C. -- On January 10th, teachers of the nation's second largest school district will be going on strike for the first time in three decades. Negotiations between Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) and...
Washington, D.C -- New analysis from the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) finds that a majority of states fail to specify teacher ineffectiveness as an explicit reason to dismiss a teacher. In Walking the...
Washington, D.C. -- Analysis from the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) finds tangible evidence that teacher evaluation systems, when implemented well, are coinciding with real and measurable benefits for students and teachers alike. The...
Washington, D.C. -- The National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) and TNTP submitted an amicus brief today in support of New Jersey students challenging the state's last-in-first-out (LIFO) laws. In the case, HG v. Harrington,...
Washington, D.C. -- More than two decades after the National Institutes of Health declared the high rate of reading failure among Americans to be "a public health crisis" and more than two decades after scientific...
Washington, D.C. -- Today's decision to end unions' ability to collect "agency fees" from nonconsenting employees puts the onus squarely on teachers union leaders to demonstrate relevance and value to today's teachers. Union leaders should...
Washington, D.C. -- In eliminating Title II, the PROSPER Act applies a sledgehammer to a situation that more appropriately calls for a scalpel. Teacher preparation is an important and complex endeavor and one in which...
Washington, D.C. -- Today, as teacher compensation concerns continue nationwide, the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) released its Strategic Teacher Compensation Databurst, a study of states' strategic teacher compensation policies. This resource includes a...
TOP NATIONAL PROGRAMS LED BY CUNY - Hunter College, INSPIRE Texas Washington, D.C. -- Today, the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) releases its latest ratings for 567 traditional graduate programs, 129 alternative route programs,...
Washington, D.C. -- Today, the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) released its Teacher Shortages and Surpluses Databurst, an analysis of states' work to track teacher shortages and surpluses, and to implement the policy solutions...
Today, the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) released its biannual 2017 State Teacher Policy Yearbook (Yearbook), which finds that the rapid progress made by states over the last decade to modernize their teacher policies has largely...
Today, the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) completed its analyses of what all 50 states intend to do to provide a more equitable education to all students in the state, as they were required...
In 80 percent of the largest school districts, a teacher with an MA and five years' experience cannot comfortably afford housing payments.
The buzz around a "national" teacher shortage has gained a lot of steam, despite some pretty compelling national data suggesting otherwise. Here NCTQ provides some information pertaining to teacher hiring and retention that may prove...