Month: October 2016

INTERNATIONAL
iNews UK. A third of 2010’s new teachers have already quit profession Critics of the Government’s education policies …pointed the finger of blame at former Education Secretary Michael Gove.

NATIONAL
AACTE, ACE., AFT, NAICU, NEA, etc. 29 organizations sign statement denouncing final ESSA Regulations

AACTE.
1) Teacher Prep EdRegs Webinar
2) Rather Than Resisting Higher Expectations, Teachers Colleges Are Driving Them Sharon Robinson re: New York Times editorial “Help Teachers Before They Get to Class” (October 15

EducationWeek. Final U.S. Teacher-Prep Regs Create Data Demands “The feds aren’t paying for this,” Koolbeck said. “So where is the money coming from?”

Hechinger Report.
1) On a classroom-based test for new teachers, black teachers score lower: A new report shows gap on the edTPA and researchers want to find out why
2) New Orleans’ uphill battle for more black and homegrown teachers
3) Many Hispanic students never have a teacher who looks like them: A program in Tennessee is trying to change that

HuffingtonPost [OpEd by R. Pianta Univ. of VA]. Teacher Preparation Regulation: Déjà Vu Or Real Change …Deans for Impact (of which I am a member) and states such as Louisiana have taken a lead in re-thinking regulation of the profession, our field should not let this opportunity pass

KQED News. Why Don’t Teachers Get Training On Mental Health Disorders?

NCTQ. How not to respond to criticism [Kate Walsh’s response to NYTimes letters] Claiming that NCTQ’s study isn’t valid…because most programs chose not to cooperate (as one letter writer asserted) ignores the extent of our massive data collection efforts…

NPREd. What Are The Main Reasons Teachers Call It Quits? Beginning teachers make about 20 percent less than college graduates in other fields.

NYTimes.
1) College Is the Goal. Will These Three Teenagers Get There? She has a bachelor’s degree in early childhood education…ran a daycare center out of her house. But…Ms. Shaner, 51, and her two sons are barely making ends meet…
2) Metaphorically Speaking, Men Are Expected to be Struck by Genius, Women to Nurture It …and her colleague, Myra Luna-Lucero, a researcher at Columbia Teachers College, set out to study whether these metaphors carry unexplored implications

The Hatcher Group Communications Firm. AACTE PRESS RELEASE: 2015 Annual Administrative Report on edTPA®

Washington Post L. Anderson/K. Zeichner. The big problems with the Obama administration’s new teacher-education regulations Relay… co-founder and current president is also founder and board chair of the same politically connected charter network, Uncommon Schools, that employed John B. King  Jr.

NEW YORK STATE
TimesUnion. Course sought to attract teachers Elia spoke to more than 100 educators about their concerns Friday at the annual fall conference of NYSATE/NYACTE

NEW YORK CITY
CityLimits. CityViews: Study on LGBTQ Youth Shows NYC Needs Broader Sex Ed In recent months, NYC enacted three bills that require the Department of Education to better track and evaluate health education, services, and teacher training in schools.

TCRecord. Book Review by Megan Tompkins-Stange of Education and the Commercial Mindset by Samuel E. Abrams [Director of TC’s NCSPE]

INTERNATIONAL
University World News. Rights fears over spread of cameras in lecture halls [China] Some university officials claimed the cameras would only be focused on teachers, not students and would be recording only during teaching hours

NATIONAL
AACTE.
1) AACTE President/CEO to Retire in July 2017 The Association has employed executive recruiting firm Russell Reynolds Associates to conduct the search for Robinson’s successor.
2) On the ‘Residency Era’ in Teacher Preparation
3) Webinars to Review Final Teacher Prep Regulations

Albert Shanker Institute. A Few Reactions To The Final Teacher Preparation Accountability Regulations

DeansForImpact. Vacancy Notice: Program Manager We offer competitive compensation, benefits, Cuvee coffee, and a great Vietnamese food truck around the corner from our office in Austin, TX

EducationDive. Examining Obama’s education legacy While the Obama administration has taken steps to invest in teacher training…, Duncan has also made enemies among the teaching ranks

EducationWeek.
1) Could the Next Education Secretary Be From the Higher Education World?
2) Secretary King: Strong Civics Education Helps Prepare Students to Tackle Inequity His advice to teachers and professors: Make sure your classrooms welcome different perspectives, and figure out productive ways to handle any “uncomfortable conversations”…
3) Test Scores Get Less Emphasis in Final Federal Teacher-Preparation Rules …student learning will not have to be based on test scores or the proxy of teacher evaluations based on student performance;…

Fort Wayne News-Sentinel. IPFW eliminates majors, consolidates departments in realignment with Purdue In addition, eight majors within existing departments, six standalone teaching programs and four graduate programs have been shuttered.

InsideHigherEd.
1) Damning With Faint Praise  Study suggests that language recommendation writers use to describe women may disadvantage them as job candidates
2) Faculty Strike at 14 Campuses Pennsylvania State System for Higher Education had been working without a contract since June 2015 — 477 days
3) Senate Higher Ed Post Up for Grabs …it’s uncertain who would lead the Senate committee that would handle key higher education legislation

National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators. Final Rules Tie Institutional and Program Eligibility for TEACH Grants to State Assessment of Quality

NYTimes Editorial Bd. Help Teachers Before They Get to Class The problem was underscored in a 2013 study by the National Council on Teacher Quality that rated only 10 percent of the 1,200 programs the study examined as adequate.

Society of Professors of Education. CFP: The editors of Professing Education announce a special issue: Theorizing Pedagogies of Teacher Education. [deadline Dec. 5]

Tennessee State Collaborative on Reforming Education (SCORE). Prepared for Day One

ThinkProgress. Donald Trump’s disregard for teachers   Trump boasted about hitting his grade-school music teacher for not “knowing anything about music.”

USCNews. Secretary of Education explains new teacher-prep rules during USC Rossier visit “In our view, the final release of these regulations represent a major victory in the transformation of our educator-preparation system,” said Ben Riley, founder of Deans for Impact.

NEW YORK STATE
Chalkbeat. How will new federal education law impact New York state? The state offers 36 ideas A set of concepts dives into supporting “excellent educators,” including creating a mentoring requirement for first-year teachers.

NYSATE/NYACTE. 2016 Annual Fall Conference [Oct. 19-21]

NYSED.
1) Office of Accountability: Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) The New York State Education Department has established an ESSA Think Tank
2) State Education Department Proposes High-Level Concepts For Draft Every Student Succeeds Act Plan … increase the minimum placement requirement of 100 hours…require that field experience occur throughout the preparatory program
3) new draft New York State P-12 English Language Arts and Mathematics Learning Standards for public comment.

NYSED Regents.
1) State Board of Regents Approves Extension Of Safety Net Regulations For Teacher Certifications Regulatory Amendment Allows Higher Education Teacher Certification Programs More Time to Prepare Students for New Content Specialty Tests.  A Notice of Proposed Rule Making and Emergency Action will be published in the State Register on November 2, 2016.
2) Oct. 17 meeting [1:18 video archive]
3) Oct. 18 meeting [10 min. video archive]

NEW YORK CITY
Chalkbeat.
1) In a tumultuous presidential campaign season, a rare spotlight on education issues
2) When is a student ‘gifted’ or ‘disabled’? A new study shows racial bias plays a role in deciding

Teachers College. The Phyllis L. Kossoff Lecture on Education and Policy Presents: Taking the Election to School [1-hour Video archive]

TCRecord Book Review. Blame Teachers: The Emotional Reasons for Educational Reform

INTERNATIONAL
IEN. Learning From and Beyond PISA: Toward Achievement with Integrity Teacher education throughout the country increasingly is disconnected from higher education and research capacity…

LSM.lv. Big changes coming up in Latvia’s education system The €14m project for… and training teachers by Latvia’s National Center for Education was turned down

TCRecord. A Stab in the Dark: Anonymous Student Evaluations of Aboriginal Teacher Educators

NATIONAL
AACTE.
1) AACTE Urges Scrutiny of Final Federal Regulations for Teacher Prep. Programs
2) Annual Meeting Early Bird Registration Closes Oct. 19
3) Quality Support Center – educator preparation’s source for professional learning on quality assurance.
4) Webinars: Teacher Prep Regs – A Review of the Final Rule [Oct. 25 and 25]

DeansForImpact. Ending the Era of Guesswork in Educator Preparation OpEd: Benjamin Riley

EducationWeek.
1) Final U.S. Teacher-Prep Regs Allow Flexibility on Student-Outcome Measures
2) New Federal Teacher-Prep Rules Draw Praise and Criticism
3) Why Has Ed Tech Made So Little Difference? What I am describing is a very different kind of education—…, not training—than the kind that teachers ordinarily get.

HechingerReport.
1) To increase teacher diversity, ignore selectivity of teacher education programs? Teacher preparation programs don’t need to be selective in accepting students under new federal rules…
2) Five reasons teacher residencies often outperform traditional training OpEd: Karen DeMoss, director of Bank Street College’s Sustainable Funding Project
3) New federal teacher prep law aims to make order out of chaos, add transparency OpEd: Kate Walsh, president of the National Council on Teacher Quality

InsideHigherEd. Trump on Higher Ed

Merrow Report. Pruning Teacher Education “If half of the 1400 places that train teachers went out of business tomorrow, we’d be better off.”

U. S. Education Dept., Office of Postsecondary Education. Teacher Preparation Issues

Washington Post.
1) Obama administration releases long-delayed regulations for teacher-preparation programs …didn’t change an underlying “ludicrous” concept that training programs should be evaluated according to the academic performance of their graduates’ students.
2) The Washington Post asked Clinton, Trump for their education vision. Here’s what they said.

NEW YORK CITY
Chalkbeat.
1). First Person: ‘I was the kid who didn’t speak English’ Teaching seemed like the only field where I could do this, and Teach For America was my outlet.

2) New York City’s teachers union says it’s time for ‘positive friction’ with city So what does Mulgrew plan to push for? A greater emphasis on teacher training, for one.

NYTimes. Trepidation at City College in Wake of President’s Abrupt Exit

Teachers College. Kossoff Lecture on Education and Policy. C. Edley, Clinton Campaign Senior Education Advisor

INTERNATIONAL
bne IntelliNews. Romanian schools face head teacher crisis as reforms postponed Many potential candidates have either left the system, which has been dominated for decades by mediocre politically-connected head teachers…

Christian Science Monitor. Back in school, German kids meet their new classmates: refugees Many teachers have been hired with little or no education experience.

EducationWeek. Finland’s Education Minister Discusses New National Curriculum and PISA Scores We’re very much investing in teacher education.

NATIONAL
AACTE. 69th Annual Meeting March 2-4, Tampa, FL. Early Bird Registration [deadline Oct. 19]

Brookings/A. Duncan. An open letter to America’s college presidents and education school deans Seven years ago, I spoke at Columbia University’s Teacher College and challenged the sector to step up, to create revolutionary change.

CAEP. Seeking Accreditation Chief, 2017 Conference Proposals; Fall Conference Draws 1,400 Participants

EducationWeek.
1) $67M teacher training grant awarded to La. education dept.
2) Having the Difficult Race-Bias Conversation
3) Looking for More Support, New Teachers Turn to Online Communities …many education students join the new teacher Twitter chat, either independently or at the suggestion of an education professor.
4) New Teachers Make Up a Significant Segment of Profession New teachers often report feeling unprepared for the realities of the classrooms.
5) Teachers Seize On ‘Growth Mindset,’ But Crave More Training 35 percent of teachers surveyed by Education Week’s Research Center said their training and professional development had included strategies…
6) Universities Revamping Teacher Prep to Provide More Hands-On Training Modeled after medical-training programs, teacher residency programs have been cropping up across the country since 2001.

Huber, C. & Kuncel, N. (2016). Does College Teach Critical Thinking? A Meta-Analysis. Review of Educational Research

Huffington Post/L. Darling-Hammond. The Answer To Teacher Shortages: Creating A Sustainable Profession There are fewer new entrants, with teacher preparation enrollments having dropped by 35% between 2009 and 2014.

NewYork Daily News. Kids to America: More black and Latino teachers, please

The Atlantic. The Ticking Clock of Teacher Burnout Policy-level ingredients, such as high-quality teacher preparation and adequate support for beginning teachers, matter too.

Pennsylvania Dept. of Education. Relay Graduate School of Education application denied

US News&World Report. 2016 Education School Rankings

NEW YORK STATE
Hechinger Report. University bureaucracies grew 15 percent during the recession, even as budgets were cut and tuition increased Cf. CUNY-System and SUNY-System offices

NEW YORK CITY
Gottesman Libraries. Book Talk: Remixing the Classroom, with Randall Allsup & Guests, Tuesday, 10/11, 5-7pm “Randall advocates for an open, quest-driven teaching model that has repercussions for music education and the humanities more generally.”

TC Kossoff Lecture. Taking the Election to School: Making Education a Focus of the 2016 Election [Oct. 13, 6:30pm]

TCRecord & Vialogues. The Laundromat as the Transnational Local: Young Children’s Literacies of Interdependence .