Category: Teacher Education

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EducationWeek. The 2015 PISA Results: What Do They Mean?  When they are in teachers college, they are required to at least minor—and in some cases major—in the subjects they are going to teach…

HuffPost. The Global Search for Education: Everything You Need to Know About PISA …these countries have a steadfast commitment to outstanding teaching and to supporting schools and students that are struggling.

NYTimes. What America Can Learn About Smart Schools in Other Countries Generally speaking, the smartest countries tend to be those that have acted to make teaching more prestigious and selective…

OECD. Singapore tops latest OECD PISA global education survey  …successful countries share: high and universal expectations for all students; a strong focus on great teaching; resources targeted at struggling students…

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AACTE.
1) Board Election Results
2) Statement on DeVos Nomination for U.S. Secretary of Education
3) Webinar: Dec. 2016 Federal Update

American Association for Employment in Education. Educator Supply and Demand Survey

DataQualityCampaign. Good Guidelines Can Foster Growth: A Teacher’s Perspective on ED Teacher Prep Regulations

EducationWeek.
1) Advice From 2016-17 Milken Educators: How to Create a Successful Classroom
2) Elementary Teacher-Prep Programs Are Getting Better, According to [NCTQ] Study
3) ‘Fake News,’ Bogus Tweets Raise Stakes for Media Literacy …over-emphasis on standardized test preparation, and slow-to-evolve teacher-preparation efforts have left the K-12 sector struggling to keep pace

EdSource. College campuses to receive $8 million to boost teacher-prep programs Twenty-nine California colleges and universities will share $8 million in state grants aimed at stemming teacher shortages…

Hechinger Report.
1) Arkansas schools hire untrained teachers as people lose interest in the profession
2) Finland can teach Betsy DeVos a thing or two about valuing teachers and school choice that’s real Networks of top schools, teachers and training programs can produce many educational choices.
3) How to find minority teachers who want to stay in the job? Schools are turning to their own former students as teaching recruits

HuffPost. Undermining Public Education Has Been A Bipartisan Affair [by A. Singer, Hofstra Univ. Social Studies Teacher Ed] Teaching and learning are not passive activities. Students and student teachers learn best from interaction and engagement with others…

NCTQ. Standards For Traditional And Non-Traditional Teacher Prep The Teacher Prep Review (TPR) evaluates critical areas of traditional and non-traditional teacher preparation

SeattleTimes. Finnish teachers, seen as global stars, call U.S. schools exhausting, uninspired …getting into a teacher-training program in Finland is akin to acceptance at M.I.T. — only the very top applicants make the cut.

The 74. A ‘Founders’ Excerpt: How 4 Visionary Entrepreneurs Joined Forces to Launch Uncommon Schools Lemov remains part of Uncommon, but he has shifted to full-time teacher-training work that was launched by his best-selling book …

YouTube [Open Access]. Autism Classroom- EdTPA Practice Filming One- “Pre-teaching Concepts for Outdoor Zoo Field Trip” While getting ready for the EdTPA here in Georgia, I decided to start filming my large group lessons in my classroom.

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Albany Times Union. Resources needed for students new to English [NYSED Commissioner Elia at public hearing] …including an easing of dual-certification requirements for teachers and a push for bilingual programs at the pre-kindergarten level.

Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities (CICU). Mary Beth Labate Appointed President of CICU

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Bed-Stuy Patch. Patrice Bridgewater of Bedford Academy HS was honored at Sloan Awards for Excellent in Teaching in Science and Mathematics. She won a merit scholarship to Brooklyn College and graduated in 2010. She immediately returned to teach at Bedford Academy.

Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities (CICU). Webinar: Sustainable Funding Project at Bank Street College of Ed [Dec. 19]

TCRecord.
1) Pushing Back Against Teacher Attrition Making deep mentorship a key component of teacher preparation can begin to close the gap between preparation and active teaching.
2) “Them That’s Got Shall Get”: Understanding Teacher Recruitment, Induction, and Retention …Simply put, we train teachers poorly and then treat them badly—so they leave in droves

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IEN. Real Singaporean Lessons: Why do Singaporean Students perform so well in PISA? …enhanced by high standards of teacher recruitment, effective teacher preparation and professional development.

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AACTE.
1) Lessons From ‘Resilience’ on Achieving a Whole-Child Focus in Educator Preparation
2) Penn Center for MSIs Convening Highlights New Report
3) Subscribe to AACTE Advocacy Action Alerts

AERA. Election Implications Loom for Federal Education Leadership, Education Research Funding

Bloomberg. The Feds Have No Idea What Student Loan Forgiveness Will Really Cost Us …assessment of [USED] agency officials: “They’re either being extremely deceitful or extremely incompetent.”

Chalkbeat. What Trump’s election means for undocumented educators Ruiz, Fuentes nd Molina became teachers through Teach for America, a national organization that recruits college graduates to teach…

Dell Foundation. Teacher preparation: Limits of top-down regulations

EdWeek.
1) How Should Reading Be Taught in a Digital Era?
2) Reflecting on First-Round Accreditation Reviews Under ‘Tougher’ Standards
2) Study: Most Professional Training for Teachers Doesn’t Qualify as ‘High Quality’
3) Which Teacher Prep Programs Meet Tough New Accreditation Standards? …according to an inaugural report released on Monday by the Council for Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP).

HechingerReport. New study shows variety in teachers’ influences on kids’ futures, and how poorly we measure that …we have evidence that these skills are teachable.

InsideHigherEd. Separate and Not Equal New book argues that sometimes faculty members of color going up for tenure are judged by a higher standard than are their white peers.

JTE. Podcasts

NCTQ. Within Our Grasp: Achieving Higher Admissions Standards in Teacher Prep [State Teacher Policy Yearbook]

NYTimes. Why Trump’s Education Pick Won’t Be Able to Privatize U.S. Schools

The Atlantic. When Finnish Teachers Work in America’s Public Schools …both of whom graduated from Finnish teacher-training programs in the ‘90s, taught in Finland for seven years, married Americans

The Tribune. University of Northern Colorado gets $2.2M grant to fund rural education center

Turning Point USA. Professor Watch List [Education faculty incl. Jennifer Adair, Univ. of Texas; William Ayers, Univ. of Illinois]

WashingtonPost. What’s the worst that could happen with Betsy DeVos as education secretary? Two scenarios.  Scn1: Enrollment in teacher preparation programs plummets. Scn2: …there is a drop in applications to teacher preparation programs

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Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities (CICU). Webinar: Sustainable Funding Project at Bank Street College of Ed [Dec. 19]

Lohud Journal News. Teaching programs plummet at state colleges

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Chalkbeat. Could Donald Trump’s school voucher bonanza become a reality in New York City? A voucher program in New York “would require a lot of political support, more so than is here now,” said Aaron Pallas, an education professor at Teachers College.

Selected. Transitioning Mid-Career to Teaching Panel, Dec. 8

SmartBrief. Our teachers can help America [by Josh Thomases, Dean of Innovation, Policy & Research, Bank Street College of Education]

TCRecord.
1) Now What, Professor? Three Ways a Trump Presidency Could Be Good for American Education … Pearson Education, has essentially colonized American classrooms in determining how our teachers are certified …
2) Pushing Back Against Teacher Attrition Thus, contrary to public perception, graduates of teacher preparation programs are not finished products when they emerge from this preparatory phase.

The New Yorker. What New York City’s Biggest School Reformer Sees in Donald Trump Success Academy students wear Catholic-school-like uniforms, and teachers are trained to emphasize high expectations, orderliness, and routine.

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The Independent. The 11 best school systems in the world

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AACTE. Sign up for Action Alerts to advocate for #teacherprep

EducationWeek.
1) Get to Know Donald Trump’s Education Transition Team …make sure our nation’s institutions of higher education continue to be open to students from around the globe, Manning said.
2) Professional Reflections of a Mentor Teacher
3) School Choice Advocate Betsy DeVos Named Ed. Sec.: What Does That Mean?
4) Study Points to Need for Diversity Training in Teacher Prep
5) What’s Missing From the Discussion of Teacher Shortages? A Researcher Explains

Chalkbeat.
1) What a Betsy DeVos appointment would tell us about Trump’s education plans
2) My education career has focused on poor students of color. Why I’m rethinking that in the wake of Trump’s election [OpEd] … voters identified by exit polls as “white without a college degree” helped Donald Trump win the election
3) What you should know about Betsy DeVos, Trump’s education secretary pick — and what her choice might tell us about his plans

EdSource. New campaign promotes power of teachers to reduce stress of traumatized students

Hechinger Report. Trump names school-choice advocate DeVos to his cabinet, ushering in a new era in education [OpEd]

iTeachAZ. Preparing Teachers to Teach

Sleeter, C. (2016). A Critical Race Theory Look at Teacher education

TeachThought.Teachers, This Is What I Need From You

TimesFreePress. UTC works to better prepare future teachers

WashingtonPost. Trump terrifies public school advocates with education secretary pick Sen. Lamar Alexander: I also look forward to working with her on the upcoming reauthorization of the Higher Education Act

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NYSED. Addressing Bullying, Harassment, Intimidation, and Discrimination in our Schools

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Rebell, M. Upholding Students’ Rights in the Trump Era [TC Prof. Michael A. Rebell] … the primary purpose of public education is to prepare students to function productively as civic participants.

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VancouverSun. Court ruling to force hiring of hundreds of teachers in B.C.

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AACTE.
1) Invitation to ‘Ed Tech in Teacher Prep’ Challenge
2) Vote by Nov. 28 in AACTE’s Board of Directors Election

CALDER. Evaluating Prospective Teachers: Testing The Predictive Validity Of The Edtpa (Nov. Update)

EducationWeek.
1) After the Election, DACA Teachers Wonder About Their Future in the Classroom
2) Black Teachers Feel Pigeonholed, Report Finds Emdin, an associate professor of science education at Teachers College, Columbia University, who has studied race and education…
3) Michigan Teacher Prep Initiative Gets STEM Teachers into High-Needs Schools
4) Study Points to Need for Diversity Training in Teacher Prep

EsteemJournal. Yolanda Sealy-Ruiz with Elizabeth Bishop: Learning Through Dialogue How can teacher education programs and coursework prepare folks to celebrate diversity and teach toward justice?

Getting Smart. Preparing Teachers for a Project-Based World

Hechinger Report. Why do black teachers leave—and how do we fix that? Hechinger Twitter chat explores how to recruit, retain black teachers [incl. TC Prof. C. Emdin]

HuffPost. Teaching Election 2016 the Morning After and for the Next Four Years [A. Singer blog]

InsideHigherEd. Presidents’ Message to President-Elect More than 100 campus leaders urge Trump to take more forceful stand against “harassment, hate and acts of violence.”

NYTimes. Bullying in the Age of Trump

Springer. Policy, Professionalization, Privatization, and Performance Assessment: Affordances and Constraints for Teacher Education Programs [Authors include TC alum Dr. L. Caraballo]

The Atlantic. How Discrimination Shapes Parent-Teacher Communication … education schools should help teacher candidates “understand these troubling disparities and … racial stereotypes”

Univ. of Kentucky. Kentucky Joins $25 Million Federal Program to Develop Effective Educators

VCU News. Participants in the School of Education’s Richmond Teacher Residency program share lessons they’ve learned

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NYSED.
1) Amendment …to Automatically Extend the Time Validity of Certain Expired Provisional, Initial or Transitional Certificates for Three Years
2) Board of Regents Approves $425,000 in Grants for Education Department Priorities
3) New Federal Regulations Concerning Teacher Preparation Programs
4) Regents 2017-2018 State Budget Priorities
5) State Education Commissioner Elia and A.G. Schneiderman Offer Guidance To Help Ensure Schools Are Safe Havens For Learning

NYSED Regent Nan Eileen Mead @NanEileenMead [Twitter] Parents: what is your child’s school doing to prevent acts of bigotry, hatred, harassment and bullying?

New York State Professional Standards and Practices Board for Teaching. 2016-16 Annual Report

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Chalkbeat.
1) Eva Moskowitz: I will work with Trump, but not as U.S. education secretary
2) Record number of New York City students are going to college, vocational programs

NYTimes.
1) Manhattan School in Zoning Battle Is Struggling, but It Has Its Fans
2) Report Spurs CUNY to End Its Contracts With Outside Lobbyists

New York Review of Books. When Public Goes Private, as Trump Wants: What Happens? Education and the Commercial Mindset by Samuel E. Abrams, Director of TC NCSPE

Politico. Cuomo orders CUNY board to review university’s ‘entire senior management’

TC Record
1) Book Review Politics, Pedagogy and Power: Bullying in Faculties of Education … a perceived or real power imbalance among faculty is a key element in the development of a bullying culture
2) Is All Classroom Conduct Equal?: Teacher Contact With Parents of Racial/Ethnic Minority and Immigrant Adolescents

TC Public Space. Teachers’ Petition to Trump

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Journal of Education Policy. Counting and comparing school performance: an analysis of media coverage of PISA in Australia, 2000–2014 …Australian education is riven with factions where pedagogic philosophy, arguments over teacher training, testing, …fuel debate

IEN. Attempting change from within: Student-centered learning in Mexico The scholarships typically cover 1 to 2 years of living in a community while training to teach. 

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AACTE.
1) Nov. 15 Webinar to Feature Clinical Preparation for Elementary Science, Math Teaching
2) Webinar Recordings, Slides Available for Regulations Overview, Federal Update

EducationWeek.
1) K-12 Education is Lucky to Be Shut Out of This Election, Some Experts Say …pretty happy that the issue is largely off the table, said Jeff Henig, a professor at Teachers College, Columbia University…
2) New Survey Focuses on Best Practices in STEM Teacher Training, Retention
3) N.C. Gets New Insights on Teacher Turnover The state should work closely with colleges and universities, the report suggests, to explore ways to increase student interest in careers in teaching
4) When the FBI Targeted School Teachers as Alleged Subversives The subjects of those reports included school teachers, as well as employees of public and private colleges
5) The ‘Change Agents in the Education System’ for This Candidate: Her Parents Juneau praised one bill from Montana Sen. Jon Tester…designed to help the recruitment of teachers in Native American communities.

HechingerReport.
1) The reason so many black teachers leave the job early New report probes why African-American teachers become frustrated with a profession that desperately needs them
2) Game Changer: When teachers prove they can teach all kinds of students [OpEd by SCALE’s Pecheone & Whittaker re edTPA]

HuffingtonPost.
1) Want to Improve Student Achievement? Invest in Teacher Education [Blog: Dean Pam Grossman, Penn GSE]
2) Teacher Education “Reforms” Hurt Children and Learning [Blog: Alan Singer, Hofstra Social Studies Ed] The TeachLive program, piloted at SUNY New Paltz and classroom simulations championed by Elia and Zimpher seems to be based entirely on Ingraham’s doctoral dissertation.

Learning Policy Institute. Webinar: Building a Strong, Sustainable Teacher Workforce

The Education Trust. Through Our Eyes: Perspectives and Reflections From Black Teachers …qualitative data Ed Trust collected from focus group sessions of 150 Black teachers from across the country.

USNews. Lay the Groundwork for Better Teachers Elevating early childhood teaching to the same status and prestige as other highly skilled professions requires raising educational standards.

WashingtonPost. Bipartisan group of senators asks Obama to rein in Education Department proposals

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The New York State Education Department. announced that it is seeking feedback on its “High Concept Ideas” to implement the federal Every Child Succeeds Act (ESSA).

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Teachers College. TC takes the lead in preparing bilingual counselors to serve the nation’s fastest growing population

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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.

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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.

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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

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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]

 

 

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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

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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.

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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]

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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

 

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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

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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.

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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 .