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.
Marc Tucker explores why and how U.S. teacher education is holding our teachers, the profession and our schools back.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Do high PISA scores mask a serious threat to Estonia's education progress?
Marc Tucker interviews outgoing NEA President Dennis Van Roekel about his career and how teaching and teachers' unions have changed.
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.
Marc Tucker describes the professional role of teachers in his proposed state accountability plan.
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