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• April 3, 2013 11:12 AM

  Outsiders Should Evaluate Teachers as Well as Students

  The most important determinant of educational quality is teacher quality. Yet, as a recent study of school principals’ permissiveness in teacher evaluations and a cheating scandal in Atlanta show, this performance is difficult to measure. The best way forward is...

  By Edward Glaeser

• March 21, 2013 3:02 PM

  Are Education Schools Better Than We Thought?

  It turns out America’s education schools, long derided for lax admissions standards and low quality research, might be more demanding than we knew. According to a new report issued by the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education: Contrary to...

  By Daniel Luzer

• January 25, 2013 2:52 PM

  Too Many Teachers?

  American colleges may be producing too many people with specialties in elementary education, according to a new analysis by Education Week: Data, while imprecise, suggest that some states are producing far more new teachers at the elementary level than will...

  By Daniel Luzer

• December 7, 2012 10:00 AM

  AFT's Magic Test

  America’s second-largest teacher union, the American Federation of Teachers, is proposing a national examination that all teachers would have to pass in order to receive certification. It’s perhaps useful for the union to be considering objective evaluation measures, but it’s...

  By Daniel Luzer

• August 9, 2012 11:00 AM

  The Problem with Online Degrees in Education: It's Not the Online Part

  A whole lot more people are earning education degrees online. Education master’s degrees may be the fast-growing online education program. This is maybe something to fix, rather than something to celebrate. According to an article by Greg Toppo and Christopher...

  By Daniel Luzer

• July 20, 2012 10:00 AM

  $14.8 Billion, For What?

  A report recently issued by the Center for American Progress found that states are now paying some $14.8 billion for public school teachers to earn master's degrees in education. A 2009 analysis by CAP indicated that states paid $8.6...

  By Daniel Luzer

• May 8, 2012 11:00 AM

  When Teachers Refuse Shoddy Reform Efforts

  A pilot project at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst is supposed to help license teachers cheaply. Under a program developed by Stanford University and the education company Pearson, aspiring teachers submit material to outsiders who then, without ever seeing...

  By Daniel Luzer

• December 7, 2011 11:00 AM

  Better Teachers Through Higher GPAs?

  The governor of Iowa, Terry Branstad, has several ideas to try and improve education in his state. One of these would require minimum grade point averages of students who want to enter into education programs at Iowa’s state universities. According...

  By Daniel Luzer

• September 6, 2011 3:58 PM

  Groupon College Tuition Deal

  When people talk about the glories of game changing behavior in education, this is probably not really what they have in mind. Historically universities have attracted students though a combination of academic reputation and financial aid. Students have learned to...

  By Daniel Luzer

• August 24, 2011 10:00 AM

  The Grades of Future Teachers

  Many critics argue that American college students seem to earn grades that are too high, or too high at least for the actual effort they’re putting in. In 1991 the average college GPA was 2.93. In 2006 the average college...

  By Daniel Luzer

• August 3, 2011 11:00 AM

  The New Teachers

  More and more new teacher are coming from alternative programs. About 40 percent of new teachers hired by school districts come from outside of teacher education programs. That’s up from a mere 22 percent between 2002 and 2004. According to...

  By Daniel Luzer

• May 17, 2011 11:00 AM

  The Difficult Prize

  The fact that we need more students to study science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) is now pretty well established. Math and science fields are central to invocation and America remaining competitive. As President Obama said back in September last...

  By Daniel Luzer

• February 22, 2011 12:48 PM

  How Public School Teaching Got Cool

  A guest post by Tom Toch I've spent the last week reflecting on an extraordinary event I attended Feb 12-13-Teach for America's 20th Anniversary Summit at the Washington Convention Center. Nearly 11,000 past and present TFA "corps members," funders,...

  By The Editors

• February 15, 2011 1:25 PM

  A New Teachers College

  For the first time since 1916, someone has founded a new stand-alone graduate school of education. Elizabeth Green at Gotham Schools writes that: The founders of Teacher U, the nonprofit organization that developed a novel way of preparing teachers for...

  By Daniel Luzer

• February 10, 2011 3:06 PM

  Everyone Gets an F

  Teachers give grades. Teachers colleges, however, don’t think it’s appropriate to be graded. They’re right, they shouldn’t be, but only because a rating system can’t ever indicate that the schools are doing a good job. According to an article by...

  By Daniel Luzer

• January 26, 2011 4:03 PM

  Silver Bullet Technology

  It’s time for schools of education to prepare teachers to teach in the 21st century classroom, or something. According to an editorial by Tawn Hauptli in Community College Week: Research shows that even when the barriers of lack of...

  By Daniel Luzer

• January 20, 2011 10:00 AM

  Rating Teachers Colleges

  U.S. News & World Report announced that it plans to begin ranking yet another set of programs. The magazine will now rank teacher education programs. This is likely to generate a great deal of coverage, though it’s actually a...

  By Daniel Luzer

• December 7, 2010 5:25 PM

  How to Pay Teachers

  The education master’s degree doesn’t really make people better teachers. Last month both Education Secretary Arne Duncan and billionaire Bill Gates said that master’s degree bonuses were an example of spending money on something that doesn’t work. So how...

  By Daniel Luzer

• November 24, 2010 12:00 PM

  Teachers Colleges and Teacher Pay

  Education secretary Arne Duncan wants to change the way America trains its teachers. According to an Associated Press article by Donna Gordon Blankenship in the Washington Post: Just this week, U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan said the economy has given...

  By Daniel Luzer

• November 16, 2010 2:05 PM

  Teacher Training Programs, Still Bad

  There’s yet another yet another new effort to improve America’s teacher training programs. This comes out of a report warning that teachers colleges are (still) not doing a very good job. According to a piece by Stephanie Banchero in the...

  By Daniel Luzer

• November 11, 2010 4:07 PM

  Illinois Normal Schools: Many Problems

  The Illinois schools of education are not so great. That’s the conclusion of a new study by the National Council on Teacher Quality. According to an article by Bonnie Miller Rubin and Tara Malone in the Chicago Tribune: [The study]...

  By Daniel Luzer

• July 29, 2010 1:39 PM

  State College University

  Yesterday Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick signed a bill to change his state’s colleges, a little bit. According to an article in the Boston Globe: Governor Deval Patrick signed a bill today that rebrands the state's nine public colleges as...

  By Daniel Luzer

• April 20, 2010 11:00 AM

  The Last Days of Education Schools?

  The true contribution of schools of education to, well, actual education has long been a matter of debate. Back in October Education Secretary Arne Duncan said most education schools were “mediocre” and served as “cash cows” for other academic programs....

  By Daniel Luzer

• March 12, 2010 1:46 PM

  Why Not Go There?

  Leaders of America’s teachers colleges are working on a new campaign to highlight and improve teacher training. American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education held an event at the National Press Club yesterday to discuss the organization’s ideas. According to...

  By Daniel Luzer

• February 22, 2010 5:31 PM

  The Pedagogy Con

  President Obama hired Arnie Duncan to be education secretary in part because Duncan would support dramatic changes in American education. Unlike someone like, say, Stanford School of Education’s incremental reformer Linda Darling-Hammond, Duncan was supposed to make people uncomfortable....

  By Daniel Luzer

• December 28, 2009 8:50 PM

  “Learning Styles” Takes a Hit

  For years one of the big themes in education involved learning styles. Some students learned best with hands-on projects. Some learned by reading. Others learned by hearing information aloud. This chart shows the different learning styles. Apparently it doesn’t matter...

  By Daniel Luzer

• October 22, 2009 3:45 PM

  Ed Schools Need "Revolutionary Change"

  The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that Secretary of Education Arne Duncan is speaking at Columbia University's Teachers College today to draw attention to what he calls the "mediocre job" that schools of education are doing to prepare teachers for...

  By Daniel Fromson