Teachers Colleges: The Weakest Link
Marc Tucker explores why and how U.S. teacher education is holding our teachers, the profession and our schools back.
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November 01, 2018
April 25, 2018
Professionalizing Teaching Isn't About More Compensation For the Same Occupation
By continuing to embrace an industrial-age model based on low labor costs, American education has been left in the dust by countries that have embraced a professional model of teaching and school organization, writes Marc Tucker.
April 18, 2018
Learning From the Nursing Profession in the New Teacher Strike Era
As teacher strikes sweep the nation, Marc Tucker compares the trajectory of teaching to that of the nursing profession, one of high standards of entry and rigorous preparation.
September 14, 2017
Teachers' Pay: What On Earth Are We Thinking?
With the U.S. facing the largest pay gap between teachers and similar professionals of any country surveyed by the OECD, Marc Tucker asks when we will finally address the embarrassingly obvious.
July 27, 2017
Migrant Labor: Sacramento Unified Goes to the Philippines for Its Teachers
Marc Tucker looks at the reasons behind and the implications of Sacramento Unified School District's decision to recruit special education teachers from the Philippines.
August 27, 2015
Teacher Shortages: Catastrophe or Opportunity?
Marc Tucker explains how current teacher shortages will ultimately be worse than any we have faced before because the causes are structural, not cyclical, and what we can do about it.
April 09, 2015
Estonia's Education System: Full of Promise, Facing Challenges
Do high PISA scores mask a serious threat to Estonia's education progress?
July 25, 2014
An Interview With Dennis Van Roekel
Marc Tucker interviews outgoing NEA President Dennis Van Roekel about his career and how teaching and teachers' unions have changed.
June 20, 2014
Teachers' Unions: Moment of Truth
Discussing the implications of the Vergara v. California case, Marc Tucker finds that teacher unions are at a critical crossroads - they can either fight to maintain blue collar working conditions or decide that they want to be true professionals and take on the associated compensation, status, risk and obligations.
April 14, 2014
Designing a State Accountability System: Part II
Marc Tucker describes the professional role of teachers in his proposed state accountability plan.
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