Month: October 2019

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Week of Oct. 21 in Teacher Ed News

GLOBAL
France24. Classrooms made from recycled plastic waste come to Ivory Coast   “There’s no problem finding teachers, it’s classrooms we need. Teachers are being trained all the time and some can even do rapid training courses to help us,” adds Doumbia.

NLTimes. Overcrowded Special Education Classes Leading To Unsafe Situations   SBO schools also say that they sometimes get pupils who actually belong in SO – children who need extra guidance because of disabilities end up in schools for children who have difficulty learning. That can also be dangerous, because SO teachers are not trained to help and cope with such students. 

NYTimes. National Dance Institute Starts Teacher Training Program   The institute’s previous teacher training efforts have borne fruit. Educators and artists who have studied at N.D.I. have created 13 affiliated programs in the United States, China and Lebanon.

UNITED STATES
AACTE.
1) Association’s New Strategic Priorities
2) Will Congress Find Time to Move on Education and Higher Education Bills?   …a few key provisions related to teacher preparation:…

AACTE/SCALE. 12th National TPA Implementation Conference Call for Proposals [deadline Nov. 4]

Chronicle. Small Changes in Teaching: Space It Out   In a study from the early 1980s, researchers evaluated two groups of high-school students who were learning new French vocabulary words… The nonspaced learners remembered an average of 11 words out of 20; the spaced learners, 15. 

Cision. Claremont Graduate University’s Teacher Education Department Awarded $3.3 million from U.S. Department of Education   Over five years, the grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s Teacher Quality Partnership Grant Program will enable the university’s Teaching Fellows program—in partnership with Alliance College-Ready Public Schools—to strengthen its preparation of resilient, highly-effective K-12 educators to meet the needs of underserved student populations in the greater Los Angeles area.

East Valley Tribune. Mesa, ASU work together to make new teachers   As opposed to the previous one-to-one model, where one associate teacher assists one “master teacher” with a few lessons, Professional Pathways allows teams of certified teachers and student teachers to work across multiple classrooms under the leadership of an experienced lead teacher.

EdWeek. Michelle Obama Wants to Train Teachers to Help Students Vote

Hechinger Report.
1) A major test for would-be teachers will de-emphasize the more difficult math sections   A new version of the Praxis Core places less emphasis on algebra and geometry… A special report in partnership with The Hechinger Report and Mississippi Today on the state’s teacher shortage explored how some teacher candidates struggle to pass the exam, failing despite multiple attempts. 
2) Hope in coal country: Parents without diplomas keep their kids in school   Previously, any resident of the county with a teacher’s license could assume they would get a job in the district schools. But Roark tried a different approach, searching for the best teachers he could attract to the school and hiring some teachers from out of state and through the Teach For America program.
3) Out of the fields: In a North Carolina county where few Latino parents have diplomas, their kids are aiming for college   And 32 states, including North Carolina, don’t require English language learner training beyond the minimal federal requirements for general classroom teachers. Districts around the country also face a shortage of bilingual and ESL teachers.

IDEdNews. Rural Teachers Need Student-Loan Debt Relief  The average teacher graduating with their bachelor’s degree is taking on over $26,000 in student loan debt. If a teacher decides that they want to go on to pursue a master’s degree, there is significantly more debt. With those levels of student debt, a brand-new Idaho teacher looks at payments between $200-$400 a month.

Learning Policy Institute. Early Childhood Essentials: A Framework for Aligning Child Skills and Educator Competencies   Early educators need extensive support through college-level preparation and ongoing job-embedded professional development in a supportive environment to be able to consistently provide intentional, individualized learning activities that scaffold each child’s acquisition of essential skills.

Medium. A Great Public School Education for Every Student [by Elizabeth Warren]  My college plan will wipe out debt for most teachers and provide tuition-free public college so future teachers never have to take on that debt in the first place. In addition, I will push states to offer a pathway for teachers to become fully certified for free and to invest in their educators and build teacher retention plans. I will increase funding for Grow Your Own Teacher programs that provide opportunities for paraeducators or substitute teachers to become licensed teachers. And I will push to fully fund the Teacher Quality Partnership program to support teacher residency programs in high-need areas, like rural communities, and in areas of expertise like Special Education and Bilingual Education.

NEA Today. ‘I Didn’t Know It Had a Name’: Secondary Traumatic Stress and Educators   Jennifer Pacatte, a teacher in Rochester, NY… didn’t quite realize what she was was getting herself into beyond the role she had been trained for. “I was not really prepared for how my students’ lives outside of school would seep into the classroom and how that would so deeply affect me,” she recalls.

UVA Today. Curry School Launches Four-Year Teacher Education Majors   Beginning in the fall of 2020, the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education and Human Development will enroll undergraduate students seeking Bachelor of Science in Education degrees in special education, elementary education and early childhood education.

Washington Post.
1) Betsy DeVos insists public schools haven’t changed in more than 100 years. Why she’s oh so wrong.   In terms of pedagogy, it’s important to remember that class sizes were much larger, at least in city schools, so teachers had little choice but to stick students in rows and work to keep them quiet. Because pre-service training didn’t become prevalent until mid-century, most educators simply taught as they themselves had been taught. And because students often didn’t even have the same set of texts, teachers needed to lecture in order to deliver common content. So it may be easy to parody teaching today — as being teacher-centered and lacking “personalization” — but it’s hard to overstate how much that was really the case 100 years ago.
2) School officials in Maryland strengthen requirements for Holocaust education   State officials said Maryland’s middle school social studies “framework” — which provides guidance for school systems as they develop curriculum and teacher training — will be revised in 2020… 
3) The Master Salesman of For-Profit Education: Can controversial entrepreneur Chris Whittle create a new model for private schools?  Samuel Abrams, director of the National Center for the Study of Privatization in Education at Columbia University’s Teachers College and author of “Education and the Commercial Mindset,” questions Whittle’s entire approach. 

NEW YORK STATE
BusinessInsider. 10 alarming facts about teacher pay in the United States   Teachers in New York make a median salary of $78,576 a year. According to CNN, that’s around the same salary as a physician’s assistant, a college agricultural sciences professor, or a veterinarian… Of course, it is also worth noting that New York is one of the few states that requires its teachers to earn a master’s degree within the first five years of teaching.

Chalkbeat. Yet another top departure in Albany: New York’s interim education commissioner is leaving

NYSED. Statement from Chancellor Betty A. Rosa, Vice Chancellor T. Andrew Brown and Interim Commissioner Beth Berlin on the Passing of Regent Judith Johnson

NEW YORK CITY
Inside Higher Ed. CUNY Contract Deal Means Big Raise for Adjuncts

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Week of Oct. 7 in Teacher Ed News

GLOBAL
Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA). Teaching is learning twice  Solutions to these challenges are easily identified: Training of teachers can improve such that every student is able to speak fluently in a foreign languages (i.e. English or French). Performance in schools and consequently education standards as a whole, would improve.

Education International (EI). World Teachers’ Day: EI takes the stage at UNESCO Conference and proposes five measures to make teaching a more attractive profession   The official celebration of World Teachers’ Day was held on 7 October at UNESCO headquarters in Paris. The conference revolved around two panel discussions: “How to attract young people to the teaching profession” and “How to retain young and novice teachers to the profession”. 

New Times Rwanda. Unqualified teachers in dilemma   Teachers without the required qualifications will be relieved of their duties in two months except those who still have lessons…Teachers for years have been offered a grace period to acquire the required qualifications for their posts – either a two-year diploma or bachelor’s degree and some did others not.

The Guardian. Science and language teachers to get £9,000 ‘staying on’ bonus   …those with degrees in geography will see their incentives cut sharply, with those training this year receiving a bursary of £26,000 that will fall to £15,000 for those training in 2020. Bursaries for those with degrees in English or history will also fall by £3,000, after improved recruitment in those subjects.

 

UNITED STATES
100Kin10. Doing The Math: Building a foundation of joyful and authentic math learning for all students  Two of the catalysts connect directly to foundational math: teacher preparation faculty who have expertise specifically in elementary STEM education and faculty modeling instructional strategies teachers will need to use in their classroom.

American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education.
1) 2019 Teacher of the Year Rodney Robinson Will Headline AACTE Annual Meeting [Atlanta, Feb. 28 – Mar. 1]
2) New Teacher Quality Partnership Grant Recipients Announced   TQP is the only federal initiative dedicated to strengthening and transforming educator preparation at institutions of higher education.  Of the 31 grantees, 20 are AACTE members.

AACTE/SCALE. News from edTPA  2018 edTPA Annual Administrative Report; Call for Proposals; Handbooks and Templates for 2019-2020…

Cable News Network (CNN). Desperate to fill teacher shortages, US schools are hiring teachers from overseas   “And they look into the Philippines, because many of our teachers are actually qualified on the subjects that they are teaching. … We are not just certified, we are very qualified.”

Education Next. How Teach for America Affects Beliefs about Education   We find that TFA teachers, who all have the social and economic advantages of being high-achieving college-educated adults, are more able to see through the lens of the disadvantaged as a result of their TFA experience. They take on attitudes that are closer to those of the economic “have-nots” in the United States regarding a perceived lack of fairness of the social and political status quo, and tend to maintain these attitudes over time.

Education Post.
1) Here’s How You Should Be Talking About Christopher Columbus in Your Classroom
2) The ELL Population Is Growing, But Where Are the Teachers To Help Them Excel?   Undoubtedly, we can work to achieve those goals by recruiting more bilingual and ESL educators into high-need areas and by restructuring teacher preparation programs to better meet the needs of ELL students

Education Week.
1) Here’s What Teach For America Alumni Believe About Charters, Vouchers, and Societal Inequities   “The idea is that since candidates on either side of the admissions cutoff are likely to hold similar incoming beliefs, this approach allows for a rigorous, non-biased estimation of the impact of TFA participation itself,” said the study, which was published in the journal Education Next. And the differences between the two groups were significant…2) How Warren’s Year as a Young Teacher Could Factor in the 2020 Campaign   If she wins both her party’s nomination and the general election, Warren would be the first president since Lyndon B. Johnson to have K-12 classroom teaching experience. After studying speech pathology in college, Warren worked as a speech pathologist under an “emergency certificate” at an elementary school in Riverdale, N.J., fulfilling a childhood dream of becoming an educator, she has said.
3) Stop Punting Dyslexia to Teachers. It’s Everyone’s Responsibility   …children with dyslexia need peripheral support from visionary professionals, including school leaders who prioritize meeting the needs of all children, teacher-preparation programs that effectively train teachers, professional organizations who advocate for them, insurance companies that reimburse families for the high costs associated with advocating for their child, employers who support time off for parents to attend school-based meetings, and translators to communicate with parents from diverse language backgrounds.
4) Teaching Impeachment? Here’s Your One-Stop Shop for Resources
5) Who’s Doing the Teaching After School Lets Out?   As more after-school programs provide academic enrichment for students, providers are turning to specialized training to help staff members demonstrate that they’re qualified to guide lessons.

Hechinger Report. Four ways that educators can help young black students thrive: Affirming, protecting and cultivating the humanity of black children

Inside Higher Ed.
1) Grad School Without the GRE
2) Grad Enrollment: Gains at Home, Losses Abroad  Enrollments in education also increased 3.2 percent year over year… Business, education and health sciences — the biggest broad fields of study — had the biggest share of part-time students.

National Education Policy Center (NEPC). A Call to Retreat from Trendy Teacher Education Reform  Hundreds of leaders in colleges of education across the country present a vision for teacher-education reform, providing an alternative to trendy notions for changing teacher preparation.

NPREd. Study Finds Students Of All Races Prefer Teachers Of Color   Cherng is a sociologist at New York University…His working theory is that teachers of color score more highly because of their ability to draw on their own experiences to address issues of race and gender…He’s currently working on a series of studies that look at preservice teachers and teacher training, to provide more evidence about the relationship between teachers’ multicultural beliefs and awareness and their effectiveness in the classroom.

Orange County Breeze. Reps. Rouda, Davis, and Sablan introduce Teacher Leader Quality Partnership Grants Act   Representatives Harley Rouda (CA-48), Susan Davis (CA-53), and Gregorio Sablan (NMI) introduced H.R. 4423, the Teacher and School Leader Quality Partnership Grants Act, along with Reps. David Trone (MD-06) and Brad Schneider (IL-10). The Teacher and School Leader Quality Partnership Grants Act improves teacher preparedness and increases development opportunities for educators…

Teaching Tolerance. Black Minds Matter: Interrupting school practices that disregard the mental health of black youth.  Teacher educator Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz uses the phrase “Archeology of the Self” to describe how teachers should dig deep, peel back layers of themselves and think about how issues of race, class, religion and sexual identity live within. 

NEW YORK STATE
NYSATE/NYACTE. 2019 Annual Conference. Coalitions of Care in Teacher Education: Educating the Whole Student, Supporting the Whole Teacher  [Oct. 17-18 Saratoga Springs]

NYSED Board of Regents October Meetings.
State Education Department September 2019 Fiscal Report Office of Teacher Certification 7,231,395 (Available 4/1/19)…
Consent Agenda:
Proposed Amendment to Sections 80-3.15 and 80-4.3 of the Regulations of the Commissioner of Education Relating to the Extension of the Application Deadline for the Statement of Continued Eligibility (SOCE) for Certain Teachers of Students with Disabilitie
Proposed Amendments to Sections 80-5.8 and 80-5.20 of the Regulations of the Commissioner of Education Relating to the Eligibility Requirements for the Endorsement Pathway for Certification as an Educator in the Classroom Teaching Service or in the Educat

The74. A Decade After It Promised to Reinvent Teacher Prep, Relay Is Producing a Much-Needed, More Diverse Teaching Corps   The groundwork for Relay was laid in 2007 by founding president Norman Atkins, who also started the Uncommon Schools network of charter schools. The program incubated at Hunter College as Teacher U, and then, in 2011, it became the first stand-alone graduate school of education in New York state to open in more than 80 years. 

 

NEW YORK CITY
American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. New Teacher Quality Partnership Grant Recipients Announced   TQP is the only federal initiative dedicated to strengthening and transforming educator preparation at institutions of higher education.  Of the 31 grantees, 3 are in New York City…American Museum on Natural History; Lehman College, CUNY; Teachers College, Columbia University

Chalkbeat. To boost literacy, this Queens school is training support staff to teach reading   Deploying paraprofessionals to help teach reading is a core element of the school’s strategy to boost literacy, aided by the nonprofit Literacy Trust, which has helped train teaching assistants and other staff in nearly 120 schools citywide.

Teachers College.
1) Math, Science, Technology Dept. STEAMnasium [Nov.5, Smith Learning Theater]
2) Teaching Residents at Teachers College Fall Newsletter

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Week of Oct. 14 in Teacher Ed News

GLOBAL
EducationInternational. Statement | EI calls on World Bank to change tack in education   EI and over 170 civil society organisations from across the world call on the Bank to take a clear and principled position in support of free, publicly funded and provided education … it should advocate for teachers to be professionally trained and highly qualified, actively supported and well-resourced. 

EdWeek. Students Learn More From Inquiry-Based Teaching, International Study Finds   “What we saw with respect to gender was the teachers appear to have implicit gender biases and tend to focus more on the boys in the classroom,” … Näslund-Hadley said the countries have since been working to provide more training before and during implementation to encourage teachers to involve students more equitably.

NCEE. Building the Nation Builders: How Singapore Supports Its World-Class Teaching Profession   Recently, NCEE spoke with educators and leaders throughout the system—from an aspiring teacher in the nation’s only teacher preparation program, the National Institute of Education (“NIE”), to the Director-General of Education.

TES (UK). Ofsted to focus on teacher training curriculum  Amanda Spielman says Ofsted’s teacher training checks have been too driven by data, which could have masked weaknesses

UNITED STATES
AACTE.
1) 20 AACTE Member Institutions Receive 2019 Teacher Quality Partnership Grants   Eligibility for the 2019 TQP grants required applicants to have programs designed to prepare computer science teachers as well as the STEM fields overall, and to take place in a Qualified Opportunity Zone as designated by the Internal Revenue Service.
2) Team Wins 5-year, $1.98 Million NSF Grant to Improve Teacher Preparation   A team of Penn State College of Education faculty led by P. Karen Murphy has won a five-year, $1.98 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to improve the preparation of undergraduate preservice elementary teachers.

AAQEP.  2020 Quality Assurance Symposium [Feb. 27, Atlanta]

BridgeMichigan, Fewer Michigan college students want to be teachers. That’s a problem.   Fewer college students are making that choice. Low salaries and negative perceptions of teaching are driving Michigan college students away from teacher preparation programs, hobbling efforts to improve the state’s struggling schools. Fewer teachers with four-year education degrees has also meant more Michigan classrooms led by long-term substitutes, who generally have far less training.

Chronicle. ‘Students Learn Best in Their Preferred Learning Style,’ and Other Neuromyths   There is no evidence, the report says, to support the idea that people learn best when taught in their preferred learning style. In fact, it says, research suggests that “teaching to learning styles may actually hinder learning or affect a student’s self-perception,” 

InsideHigherEd.
1) The Incredible Shrinking Higher Ed Industry: Number of U.S. colleges and universities that award federal financial aid fell by 5.6 percent in 2018-19, to lowest mark in two decades.
2) Warren to DeVos: Drop Navient’s Contract  A judge’s decision in another recent case brought against four borrowers over alleged mishandling of Public Service Loan Forgiveness applications largely went in Navient’s favor.

NCEE. Reviewing OECD’s Annual Report Education Outlook 2019 from a U.S. Perspective [Webinar Video]

Washington Post. Yes, teacher-preparation programs need to be fixed — but more than 350 education leaders say reforms are ‘making things worse’   An alliance of more than 350 deans and other leaders in the field of teacher education issued a major new statement saying many teacher-preparation programs in this country are not working well but that some key efforts to reform them are only “making things worse.”

NEW YORK STATE
NYSATE/NYACTE. 2019 Annual Conference Coalitions of Care in Teacher Education: Educating the Whole Student, Supporting the Whole Teacher [Sept. 16-18] Presentation by S. Reid, K. Ledwell of Teachers College “A Culturally Relevant Approach to Professional Development for Preservice Teachers of Color”

Pearson. New York State Teacher Certification Examinations (NYSTCE).   The New York State Education Department (NYSED) and the Evaluation Systems group of Pearson are seeking candidates … to participate in a field test of items that may appear on future NYSTCE test forms. Field test participants will receive incentives upon verification of participation.

TimesUnion. NY could mandate dyslexia screening in preschool   “Schools of education all too frequently do a disservice by not providing teachers with the skills and knowledge they need to teach reading … it’s frustrating for the teachers as well as the children,” said Dr. John J. Russell, executive director of The Windward Institute, who was head of the school for 13 years.

NEW YORK CITY
Teachers College.
1) Celebrating TC’s Innovative Residency Program: A new federal grant funds TR@TC3   TR@TC prepares TESOL, special education, math, and science teachers to work in high-need New York City public schools through an intensive residency and mentorship program grounded in the Teachers College philosophy of inclusive education. Apply by November 8th and prepare to transform lives in New York City schools.
2) CFP The 37th Annual Teachers College Winter Roundtable: Teaching to Transform; Feb. 28-29 [proposal deadline Oct. 28]
3) EdLab Learning Theater Spotlight: Citizen Scientists Showcase  The Teaching Residents at Teachers College program, known as TR@TC, prepares highly qualified teachers to teach in New York City public schools.
4) Michelle Knight-Manuel is Named Executive Editor of the Teachers College Record   Knight-Manuel is a former middle school ESL/French teacher … her work focuses on college readiness and access, immigrant youth’s civic strengths, and culturally relevant teacher preparation and professional development.

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Week of Sept. 30 in Teacher Ed News

GLOBAL
Education International. World Teachers’ Day: young teachers and the future of education in the spotlight   With the world in dire need of new teachers, valuing and improving the status of the profession to make it more attractive to young people is key to ensuring equitable and inclusive quality education for all.

Eesti Rahvusringhääling [Estonia]. Planned meager salary increase in 2020 not enough, teachers say   Voltri noted that recent years’ salary increases has increased young people’s interest in studying to become a teacher.

Korea Joongang Daily. Technology centers equip students, teachers with skills for the future  All teacher hopefuls need to fulfill 160 hours of mandatory training before they can be sent to schools or community centers in the province or city that request their services. Although they are all exposed to key ideas like block coding and physical computing, teachers are trained in different specialties according to region.

South China Morning Post. Equal Opportunities Commission calls for increased government aid to help Hong Kong’s ethnic minority students learn Chinese more effectively   Hong Kong’s anti-discrimination watchdog has called for more government funding to develop a special curriculum for ethnic minority students and to train teachers in helping non-Chinese-speaking students learn the language more effectively.

The Conversation. Teaching truth and reconciliation in Canada: The perfect place to begin is right where a teacher stands   The Aboriginal Teacher Education Program (ATEP) at Queen’s University that we both work with qualifies graduates for Ontario College of Teachers certification and provides a focus on Indigenous education in their teacher preparation. This program has over 400 primarily Indigenous graduates. We stand in awe of the change they have made at all levels of education; we are excited to follow where this change leads next. We deeply believe in decolonized, self-determined, authentically Indigenized education.

UNESCO. World Teachers’ Day. Held annually on 5 October since 1994, World Teachers’ Day commemorates the anniversary of the adoption of the 1966 ILO/UNESCO Recommendation concerning the Status of Teachers. This Recommendation sets benchmarks regarding the rights and responsibilities of teachers and standards for their initial preparation and further education, recruitment, employment, and teaching and learning conditions. 

UNITED STATES
American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. September 2019 – State of the States Legislative Roundup

American Indian College Fund. What Is Stem Without Roots?   Many teachers have felt ill-prepared about addressing cultural knowledge in their classrooms and this often results in a void in the connection to community and impacts children’s beliefs about their abilities in STEM. If classrooms and teacher training programs focus on STEM with only one narrative for its roots, many diverse learners will be disconnected from the field.

Clemson Newsstand. Clemson’s College of Education adopts four-year undergrad advising model amid enrollment gains that defy national trends   From fall 2016 to fall 2019, the college’s population of undergraduate majors increased 19 percent, making it a true anomaly on the national stage when it comes to teacher education.

Education Dive. E is for educator: Sesame Street celebrates 50 years of quality early learning   A former preschool and kindergarten teacher, who now trains future elementary teachers and works with school districts as part of URI’s Guiding Education in Math and Science Network, Sweetman is just one of many educators and researchers who have played a critical, behind-the-scenes role in making sure each scene and lesson is developmentally appropriate and scientifically accurate.

Education Week.
1) Getting Reading Right. Through reporting, explainers, opinion pieces, surveys, and multimedia features, we’ll explore what teachers know about reading and where they learned it, as well as the challenges they face in bringing the research to fruition in K-2 classrooms.
2) The Education Department Is a Little More Popular Than ICE, New Survey Finds  The public’s opinion of the U.S. Department of Education, while low compared to other federal agencies, is evenly split, the latest survey by the Pew Research Center finds, with almost no partisan gap between how Democrats and Republicans view the agency.
3) The State With the Most Charter Schools Just Gave Districts More Power to Reject Them   Charter school teachers teaching outside of core subject areas will have five years to obtain appropriate certification.
4) What Makes a Great Teacher: Pedagogy or Personality?   Generally in teacher preparation and professional development, the focus is on teaching practices and how we can understand our students as learners. But we are rarely called to look at our own identities.

Inside Higher Ed. Middle East Studies Program Comes Under Federal Scrutiny   The letter accuses the center of “advancing ideological priorities” and singles out a teacher-training program in multicultural education in arguing that it uses such programs to “advance narrow, particularized views of American social issues” rather than focusing on language development or the geography, geopolitical issues or history of the Middle East.

Pearson/SCALE. 2018 edTPA Administrative Report. The disproportionate representation of White candidates and the relatively small sample sizes of other groups must be considered when making comparisons or generalizations to other samples or to the general population of teacher candidates.

 

NEW YORK STATE
NYSED Office of Higher Education. September Newsletter

  • Safety Nets for the Science Content Specialty Tests
  • New York State Teacher Certification Examinations (Nystce) Preparation Materials
  • Edtpa Passing Score Increasing

New York Times. New York Sues Big U.S. Student Loan Servicer for Abusing Borrowers   The lawsuit by state Attorney General Letitia James adds to a growing list of complaints by borrowers and regulators against the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency, which operates as FedLoan and American Education Services….FedLoan has “failed miserably” as the sole servicer since 2012 for the federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, which excuses borrowers who work in public service for 10 years from repaying their loans, provided they make some qualifying payments.

 

NEW YORK CITY
Chalkbeat.
1) I never talked about race in my seven years in the classroom. Now I work to make sure future teachers do.   My colleagues and I wanted to create a new kind of training space, one that would put cultural responsiveness front and center. We called it the East Harlem Teaching Residency.
2) City, labor leaders announce deal to close pay gaps for NYC pre-K teachers in Head Start programs   If ratified by members, certified teachers with a master’s degree would see their pay increase by more than $15,500 by October 2021. That would bring their pay to $68,652, in-line with starting salaries for public school teachers.

New York Daily News.
1) Changing the way teachers learn can make all the difference in the classroom  A June proposal by city Comptroller Scott Stringer suggests a yearlong, paid teacher “residency” program that would eventually include 1,000 people a year.
2) NYC pre-school teachers get pay raise to match what other pre-k teachers earn    Certified teachers with Bachelor’s Degrees will go from $48,000 to $62,000. Non-certified teachers and support staff will get a $1,000 bonus when the new contract is ratified.

Teaching Residents at Teachers College. Now accepting applications for the 2020 Cohort. [Info sessions Oct. 10 & 24]

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