INTERNATIONAL
NPR. Somali Students Help Teachers Learn What It’s Like To Be A Refugee
Stanford Social Innovation Review. Redefining Teacher Development to Great Effect in Honduras
UNESCO. eAtlas of Teachers: Projected number of primary teachers needed by 2030 (new posts and attrition)
UNITED STATES
CAEP. Seeking Volunteers
EdWeek.
1) Should E-Learning Replace Substitute Teachers? Lexington High School in Massachusetts has replaced in-person substitutes with “electronic learning facilitators,” full-time licensed educators who are trained in online instruction.
2) Tapping High Schoolers to Become Teachers …9th graders can get a taste of the teaching profession through Today’s Students-Tomorrow’s Teachers, a program that started in 1994 at a high school in Westchester, N.Y.,
3) Trump Sharpens Budget Knife for Education Department, Sources Say …eliminate or substantially cut the third-largest K-12 program in the department: Supporting Effective Instruction state grants program, better known as Title II…
4) Trump Budget Would Make Massive Cuts to Ed. Dept., But Boost School Choice …whacking popular programs that help districts offer after-school programs, and hire and train teachers.
5) When ‘Highly Qualified’ Teachers Aren’t: Are we watering down teacher certification? [OpEd]
HechingerReport. Highlights from SXSW’s education confab in Austin – and beyond The most talked-about speech during SXSWedu came from Christopher Emdin, an associate professor at Teachers College, Columbia University
NAAC. 27th Annual Conference of the National Association for Alternative Certification (NAAC) (2017)
NYTimes.
1) Agency-By-Agency Look at Trump’s Budget …eliminate two programs worth $3.6 billion that provide funding for teacher preparation and after-school programs
2) Navigating Our Shameful, Maddeningly Complex Student Aid System “Just at the moment when everything seemed like it was going in the right direction, the rug gets pulled out, and in the middle of the application season,” said Judith Scott-Clayton, associate professor of economics and education at Teachers College of Columbia University
3) When a Few Bucks Can Get Students to the Finish Line “It wasn’t important enough before that for the Department of Education to include it in their eligibility criteria,” said Thomas Bailey, a professor at Teachers College, Columbia University.
Project Tomorrow. Tomorrow’s Teachers Speak Up Survey
Seattle Education. An Interview with Kenneth Zeichner: Relay Graduate School of Education
US News & World Report. Best Education Schools [2017 rankings]
NEW YORK STATE
Breitbart. New York State Kills Literacy Test for Teachers: Minority Kids Hardest Hit
NY Daily News. Teach your teachers well: The state Board of Regents makes a big mistake on an educators’ literacy credential
NYSED Regents.
1) Board of Regents Act To Amend State’s Teacher Certification Requirements Based On Recommendations Of Expert Panel And Public Input
2) Report of Regents Higher Education Committee to The Board of Regents
FoxNews. NY dropping teacher literacy test amid claims of racism
NYPost. The Regents’ lame excuses for lowering teacher standards
NYTimes.
Regents Drop Teacher Literacy Test Seen as Discriminatory
