Is the edTPA a Valid Measure of Teacher Quality?
Three researchers published an article in the Kappan that is highly critical of the edTPA, a test used to assess whether teacher candidates are prepared...
Category : Teacher Education
Nancy Bailey: The Critique of Dr. Biden’s Credentials Was an Attack on Teachers and Public Schools
Nancy Bailey deconstructs Joseph Epstein’s much-reviled critique of Dr. Jill Biden’s right to be called “Dr. Biden.” She believes that its true message was an...
Is It Time to Say Farewell to Pearson EdTPA?
https://www.educationdive.com/news/is-edtpa-standing-in-the-way-of-getting-more-teachers-into-classrooms/572969/ Educators disagree about the value, validity, and reliability of the Pearson EdTPA, which is mandated in many states as the gateway to entering teaching....
“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...
How a Minnesota Foundation Wasted $45 Million on a Failed Plan to Reform Teacher Education
Rob Levine, a Resistance-to-Privatization blogger in Minneapolis, reports here on the failure of the Bush Foundation’s bold “teacher effectiveness” initiative, which cost $45 million. All...
Paul Thomas on the Media’s Search for Scapegoats in Education
Paul Thomas Taught for nearly 20 years, then became a teacher educator at Furman University in South Carolina. He often writes about the media...
Eric Blanc: Five Big Lessons from the Los Angeles Teachers’ Strike
Eric Blanc has covered the wave of teachers’ strikes that started in March 2018. He has been on the ground at everystrike, talking to the...
Wisconsin: Why Educators Should Vote for Kelda Roys, Not Tony Evers
I posted a strong endorsement of Kelda Roys. She is a candidate in the Democratic candidate for Governor of Wisconsin. The leading candidate in the...
Breaking News! New York Judge Rules that Success Academy Can’t Certify Its Own Teachers
State Supreme Court Judge Debra J. Young ruled that Success Academy can’t certify its own teachers. The chain, New York City’s largest, has very high...
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...