The Great Lakes Center for Education Research and Practice A weekly selection of thought- provoking research and commentary focused on. The Changing Face of Teacher Preparation. Michigan State University - College of Education. The Education Policy Center at Michigan State University is hosting 'The Changing Face of Teacher Preparation: Aspirations, Designs and Evidence,' a one- day conference on teacher preparation. The conference will bring together some of the nation's top researchers and leaders of various types of programs. The Power of the Network: Teach For America's Impact on the Deregulation of Teacher Education. Educational Policy - Kerry Kretchmar, Beth Sondel, & Joseph J. Ferrare. Kerry Kretchmar, Beth Sondel, & Joseph J. Ferrare illustrate the relationships between Teach For America (TFA) and the deregulation of university- based teacher education programs. We use policy network analysis to create a visual representation of TFA’s connections to individuals, organizations, and private corporations who are working to shift the way teachers are prepared."Hiring Non- Certified Teachers No Way to Address Teacher Shortage, Say Experts. NEA Today - Tim Walker. Tim Walker reports on a recent poll of California voters and a report released in January by the Learning Policy Institute (LPI). The poll indicates that voters in California are concerned with the state’s looming teacher shortage, while the report from LPI showed the number of underprepared teachers in California is climbing. How Can White Teachers Do Better by Urban Kids of Color? Colorlines - Christopher Emdin. Colorlines, a daily news site published by Race Forward, shares an excerpt of Chris Emdin’s newest book, "For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood … and the Rest of Y'all Too: Reality Pedagogy and Urban Education." In this excerpt Emdin explains how White teachers in urban schools can overcome their class and race privilege and truly connect with their students. No, great schools can't close achievement gaps all by themselves. The Washington Post - Answer Sheet - Kevin Welner. Kevin Welner shares a new infographic from the National Education Policy Center (NEPC) and the Schott Foundation. Welner unveiled the infographic at a White House summit on education policy. The Neenah Joint School District will not discriminate on the basis of color, sex, race, religion, national origin, ancestry, creed, sexual orientation, pregnancy. A meaningful, accurate evaluation system achieves a number of important purposes. As in any field, evaluations provide those managing the organization a clearer sense. Many efforts to improve U.S. education today focus squarely on the “talent strategy” – how to get more great teachers into the pipeline and keep them in the. The most important factor in improved student learning is with an effective teacher. Written ten times a year, Harry and Rosemary Wong. The infographic is based on the policy recommendations drawn from a recent book, 'Closing the Opportunity Gap' by Welner and Prudence Carter (Stanford), as well as a policy brief by Jennifer King Rice (University of Maryland). Note: Rice produced the policy brief for NEPC with funding from the GLC. Teacher- Evaluation Shifts: Georgia to Scale Back Testing Component. Education Week - Teacher Beat - Stephen Sawchuk. Stephen Sawchuk relays news of Georgia’s decision to reduce the weight placed on student achievement growth for teacher evaluation. Under the bill, which has passed both the state House and Senate, tests would count for only 3. Waldorf education, also known as Steiner education, is based on the educational philosophy of Rudolf Steiner, the founder of Anthroposophy. Its pedagogy emphasizes.Charter Schools Suspend Black and Disabled Students More, Study Says. New York Times - Motoko Rich. Motoko Rich shares the findings of a new report from the Center for Civil Rights Remedies at UCLA. Black students are four times as likely to be suspended from charter schools as white students, according to a new analysis of federal education data. And students with disabilities, the study found, are suspended two to three times the rate of nondisabled students in charter schools."Is School Funding Fair? A National Report Card (5th Ed.)0. Education Law Center - Bruce Baker, Danielle Farrie, Theresa Luhm, and David G. Sciarra. Bruce Baker, Danielle Farrie, Theresa Luhm, and David G. Sciarra share the latest results of the Education Law Center’s school funding report card. The National Report Card (NRC) evaluates and compares the extent to which state finance systems ensure equality of educational opportunity for all children, regardless of background, family income, place of residence, or school location. It is designed to provide policymakers, educators, business leaders, parents, and the public at large with information to better understand the fairness of existing state school finance systems and how resources are allocated so problems can be identified and solutions developed."Survey: Number of Future Teachers Reaches All- time Low. NEA Today - Mary Ellen Flannery. Mary Ellen Flannery reports on the results of a national survey, which finds: "the number of students who say they will major in education has reached its lowest point in 4. Just 4. 2 percent intend to major in education—a typical first step to becoming a teacher—compared to 1. UCLA’s Cooperative Institutional Research Program."Opting Out of the Education Reform Industry. Monthly Review - Wayne Au & Jesslyn Hollar. Wayne Au and Jesslyn Hollar write about the education reform industry, high- stakes testing, and the Opt Out movement. High- stakes tests provide the data that is the very fuel of the corporate education reform machine. By opting out of these tests, students, parents, and teachers have the power to take away the data. With the data seized and the machine deprived of its fuel, the corporate reformers cannot produce public education for private gain. This is why opting out is so threatening to the reform industry—and it should be."Facing facts: Ohio's school report cards in a time of rising expectations. Fordham Institute - Aaron Churchill. Aaron Churchill attempts to dig into the results of Ohio’s school report cards. Since 2. 00. 5, the Fordham Institute has conducted annual analyses of Ohio’s school report cards, with a particular focus on the performance of urban schools, both district and charter. This year’s analysis again takes a deep- dive look at the student achievement and school quality in the Ohio Big Eight areas."Closing the Achievement Gap Requires Closing the Gap Between Schools and Central Offices. Center for Educational Leadership - Max Silverman. Max Silverman, an associate director at the University of Washington Center for Educational Leadership, tackles school and central office collaboration. He writes, "Building this new model of school and central office collaboration is not easy. It requires changes in how teachers, principals, and central office leaders work together. Here at CEL, we are growing more convinced that the path to turnaround is not paved by mandates or simplistic accountability measures, but rather it is a road of learning, collaboration, and reciprocal accountability."Community Schools as an Effective Strategy for Reform. Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education (SCOPE) - Julia Daniel & Jon Snyder. Julia Daniel, doctoral student at the University of Colorado Boulder, and Jon Snyder, Stanford University, summarize the empirical basis for several features of community schools. Investing in programs that address the multiple needs of students and communities so that children can succeed in school produces excellent returns for individuals and for society."Teacher Eval: Waist Deep in the Big Muddy. Curmudgucation - Peter Greene. Peter Greene reviews a recent article in the Atlantic. The article by Thomas Toch, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching argues that teacher evaluation [reform], now given a bit of freedom in the new ESSA, should stay the course. Greene writes, "The Obama- era teacher evaluation systems sucked. They collected lousy information about things that aren't even the most important part of a teacher's work. They consistently proved to be unreliable and invalid. They provided no useful information to anybody. One of the few bright spots of ESSA is the end of the federally- mandated inaccurate unreliable nonsense evaluation system."On (Wisconsin)0. Medium. com - Sara Goldrick- Rab. Sara Goldrick- Rab, soon to be professor of higher education policy and sociology at Temple University, writes about her reasons for leaving the University of Wisconsin- Madison. Terrified sheep make lousy teachers, lousy scholars, and lousy colleagues. And today at the University of Wisconsin- Madison, thanks to #Fake. Tenure, I’m surrounded by terrified sheep. To be honest, commitments to the growing number of people whom I am responsible for (including my two children, but also my students and staff), put me at risk of becoming one of them."Do school vouchers improve results? It depends on what we ask. The Conversation - Joshua Cowen. Joshua Cowen reviews a series of reports on Louisiana’s statewide school voucher program. Regarding negative results from the vouchers, he says: “It may be tempting to use this news as an argument against vouchers, especially because the evidence is drawn from the most sophisticated research tools available to scholars who study these programs. However, it should be stressed that test scores provide only one indicator of program success or failure.” And adds later, “The question is whether test scores are the only way to judge schools and school performance.”Teachers And Professional Collaboration: How Sweden Has Become The ABBA Of Educational Change. Shanker Blog - Andy Hargreaves. Andy Hargreaves discusses school reform in Sweden, professional collaboration, and teacher collegiality. The world is finally starting to realize that we cannot create societies of highly skilled and successful learners, unless we have professionally run schools and school systems where well qualified and highly valued teachers are able, encouraged and expected to collaborate for the benefit of all students. It’s time for teachers everywhere not to say the equivalent of another Abba song – ‘Take a Chance on Me’ – but to proclaim ‘invest in us as a strong and growing profession’.”Support From the Start: A 5. State Review of Policies on New Educator Induction and Mentoring. New Teacher Center - Liam Goldrick. The New Teacher Center released an update of state policies on teacher induction, ‘Support From the Start: A 5.
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