NCTQ Teacher Prep Review: Brief Highlights
The National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) recently released a lengthy report called “Teacher Prep Review: A Review of the Nation’s Teacher Preparation Programs” (“The Review”). The much anticipated and highly contested report highlights the shortfalls of the vast majority of the nation’s colleges and universities’ teacher preparation programs. The report sounds the alarm on [...] |
High school graduation requirements support equal opportunity
If you had had to choose your career path when you were 14, what might you have become? Would you have had the foresight and guidance to choose wisely? Would you have taken all the courses in high school to prepare you for the challenges you would face later on? The most fortunate among you [...] |
Common core standards need a common core diploma
Last week we reported the good news that high school graduation rates are continuing their ascent. But what does that diploma mean? CPE’s latest report, written in collaboration with Change the Equation, finds that in a lot of Common Core-adopting states, high school graduation won’t necessarily mean students have met the new standards. The report, [...] |
Recognizing human capital as key to any school turnaround
One of the biggest criticisms of the U.S. Department of Education’s efforts to turnaround chronically low-performing schools is it’s reliance on harsh and, in many cases, unproven strategies— as CPE’s recent report, Which Way Up discovered. In reading a working paper by Michael Hansen—Investing the Role of Human Resources in School Turnaround: A Decomposition of [...] |
A teacher’s misconceptions of using test scores to evaluate teachers
I certainly understand teachers’ angst when it comes to being evaluated based on their student test scores. Being evaluated is not a fun experience but when that evaluation is also based on the performance of others it makes the process that much more stressful. To make matters worse there appears to be a number of [...] |