NEPC: Another Useless Report from NCTQ
The National Education Policy Center frequently engages independent scholars to review think tank reports, which are often advocacy reports. In this report, the NEPC scholars...
Category : National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ)
EdWeek: Teacher Evaluations Resume, Despite Pandemic and Chaotic Conditions
Madeline Will wrote in Education Week that many states plan to resume teacher evaluations, despite the pandemic and the difficulties of teaching remotely and/or in-person....
“Education Deans for Justice and Equity” Speak Out Against Market-Based Disruption
At last! The leaders of 350 teacher education programs have issued a bold statement in collaboration with the National Education Policy Center denouncing attacks...
National Education Policy Center: Another Phony Report on Teacher Prep by NCTQ
The National Council on Teacher Quality is a conservative group created to make professional teacher education look bad. I was on the board of the...
Tim Slekar: Scott Walker Continues His Crusade to Eliminate the Teaching Profession
Tim Slekar, dean of education at Edgewood College and a fighter for teachers and public schools, reports here on Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s latest salvo...
Audrey Amrein-Beardsley: The Top Ten Research-Based Reasons Why Standardized Tests Should NOT Be Used to Evaluate Teachers
The value-added assessment model that was forced on states by Arne Duncan’s Race to the Top is starting to fall apart, in the courts and...
Review: Will Higher Admission Standards for Teacher Education Produce Better Teachers?
The National Coucil for Teacher Quality issued a report calling for higher admission standards for entrants into teaching, specifically, higher SAT and ACT scores. This...
Politico: Will the ED Department’s Office of Civil Rights Survive?
Politico speculates that the Trump administration will get rid of the Office of Civil Rights in the U.S. Department of Education. This would satisfy the...
John Merrow: Why John King and the NY Times Are Wrong About Teacher Education
Perhaps you read the editorial in the New York Times a few days ago, blasting teacher education programs and approving John King’s new regulations to...
Peter Greene on NCTQ’s False Claims about How to Be a Great Teacher
Peter Greene brings his sharp scalpel to the latest “research” by the National Council for Teacher Quality. This is the group created in 2000 by...