"Gen Y" teachers want more frequent feedback on their teaching, tend to be more open to shared practice, and say that rewards and sanctions should be differentiated based on performance, a new analysis concludes. Read Full Post >
Few NBCTs have transferred to "challenging" schools in Washington state, a report concludes. Read Full Post >
Last week Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet sent a letter to the Obama administration urging it to create a "presidential teacher corps" to help fulfill its goal of recruiting 100,000 new teachers in shortage fields over the next five years. Quite a while back, we here at Education Week wondered what k... Read Full Post >
The District of Columbia's best teachers aren't equitably distributed across the city's wealthier and poorer neighborhoods. Read Full Post >
Republican Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina asserts that sexually active single women and gay men and women should be barred from teaching. Read Full Post >
Teach For America teachers who are assigned to teach more than one grade, subject, or out-of-field are more likely to leave their schools—or the profession altogether, a new analysis concludes. The paper is the latest addition to a complex research base on the popular alternate-route-to-teach... Read Full Post >
A scholar who studies induction programs expresses some reservations about the methodology used in a random-assignment study on comprehensive mentoring. Read Full Post >
That's the bottom line of this new study out from the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences. It's an important study because the experimental design allows us to conclude that it was the intensive, two-year structured mentoring that "treatment" teachers received—and no... Read Full Post >
Denver's ProComp pay program may have helped attract more-effective teachers to the district and boosted retention in hard-to-serve schools, according to a report on the much-discussed system released recently by the University of Colorado at Boulder. Teachers opting into the program also appear to ... Read Full Post >
Over at Politics K-12, Alyson Klein has a very interesting item up about Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., who recently introduced a school-turnaround bill. While some folks are poring over that, though, here in the teacher-quality universe the question on the table is: What the heck happened to Bennet'... Read Full Post >
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