Tag: Teacher Prep

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Brookings Inst. A brief guide to the French presidential election On education, he [Macron] wants to hire 5,000 teachers and cut class size to 12 students in primary schools (in low-income zones).

IEN. Improving education in and out of school in South Africa (Part 2) Even the materials designed to support teachers show the inadequacies of current teacher preparation. 

UNESCO. #Education2030 69 million teachers are needed worldwide to meet goals.

UNITED STATES
AACTE. Call for Proposals [May 30 deadline], Reviewers [May 16 deadline] for 2018 AACTE Annual Meeting

Chronicle.
1) A Tenure Track for Teachers? An important new wrinkle has been the rise of the full-time, nontenure-track faculty member (FTNTT). The FTNTTs teach full courseloads and receive full-time salaries and benefits, but work on fixed-term contracts that are usually renewable, sometimes in perpetuity.
2) Colleges With the Highest Average Pay for Full Professors, 2015-16

EdWeek.
1) Can Teacher Residencies Help With Shortages?: Scholars at AERA take up the topic
2) Teacher-Prep for High School Science and Social Studies Found to Fall Short Included in NCTQ’s list of top-ranked education programs are Arizona State University in Phoenix, Hunter College in New York…
3) Indiana Teen Graduates College While Still in High School, Wants to Be a Teacher
4) Tennessee education group aims to interest youth in teaching
5) Virginia’s Largest School District Favors White Teachers in Hiring, Study Finds …while black applicants had, on average, more degrees and more time in

InsideHigherEd. Could Robots Handle Peer Review? Technologist argues that artificial intelligence could make publishing decisions in milliseconds.

NEA. How Many Public School Students Are Taught by Certified and Experienced Teachers? Roughly 94% of students were taught by a state-certified teacher in the 2011–12 school year – the most recent figures available from the Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS)

NCTQ. Spring 2017 Landscape in Teacher Preparation, Undergraduate Secondary 

NYTimes.
1) How Successful Are Charter Schools? [letters to editor] Public schools, governed by elected school boards in communities that can afford to provide generous funding for small class sizes, a wide array of programs and teacher training, do a superb job of educating their students.
2) Why Yale Graduate Students Are on a Hunger Strike Tenured and tenured-track jobs have declined significantly, with only about 30 percent of faculty members in such positions in 2016, down from about 40 percent in 2013.
3) Puerto Rico’s Debt Crisis Claims Another Casualty: Its Schools There are teacher shortages in some schools and surpluses in others.

U.S. Secretary of Education. Policy Regarding Mandatory Formatting Requirements for Grant Competitions Program offices may suggest page limits and formatting standards (such as font size, line spacing, and the like) but may not use ignoring these suggestions as a basis to reject grant applications.

NEW YORK STATE
cIcu. Degrees Awarded in New York State by Sector, 2015-16.

NYS Gov. Nominate a Teacher for the Empire State Excellence in Teaching Award

NYSED.
1) Proposed Amendments to Part 80 of the Commissioner’s Regulations Related to the Elimination of the Academic Literacy Skills Test (ALST) for Teacher Certification and to Remove Unnecessary References to the Liberal Arts and Sciences Test The proposed amendment is being presented to the Full Board for adoption as a second emergency rule at its May 2017 meeting in order to ensure that the emergency rule adopted at the March 2017 meeting, which will expire on June 10, 2017, remains continuously in effect until it can be permanently adopted at the June 2017 meeting.
2) State Education Department Releases Draft Every Student Succeeds Act Plan for Public Comment … the Department will: leverage partnerships among institutions of higher education, other preparatory programs and public schools to create additional opportunities for candidates in teacher and school building leader preparation programs to have robust, field-based experiences…
3) State Education Department Announces 13 Public Meetings To Be Held To Receive Comment On Draft Every Student Succeeds Act Plan
NOTE: In addition to the May 20th public hearing: Comments can be submitted via email to [email protected] (link sends e-mail) with “ESSA Comments from (sender/organization name)” in the subject line. Comments submitted via mail should be sent to the attention of Dr. Lisa Long, New York State Education Department, Office of Accountability, 4th Floor, 55 Hanson Place, Brooklyn, New York 11217. Comments will be accepted through June 16.

NEW YORK CITY
Chalkbeat. Protesters denounce Paul Ryan’s visit to a Success Academy school in Harlem Ryan’s office released a statement as well. “The quality of teacher training and preparedness was extraordinary,” he said.

EdSurge. What Does It Mean to Work Like a Teaching Resident? A Look Into NYU’s Digital Pilot Program Professors from NYU (also called content mentors) view this transition via a video platform created by HotChalk and digitally mentor their 15 graduates (also known as interns)…

New York 1. Public Schools Struggling to Find Enough Teachers Certified to Serve Students Learning English

NYTimes.
1) Abigail M. O’Neill. [Obituary] A generous benefactor of Teachers College …Her most enduring legacy is her passionate commitment to supporting future New York City teachers through the Abby M. O’Neill Fellowship, which addresses the demand for training in key areas and the need for excellent teachers in underserved communities.
2) Is ‘3-K for All’ Good for All? De Blasio’s Preschool Plan Troubles Some Ana Aguirre, the executive director of United Community Centers …said that having such frequent vacancies inevitably took a toll on her program’s quality. “Your energy is constantly in replacing certified teachers”…

 

 

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IEN. Improving education in and out of school in South Africa …widespread need for books, textbooks curricula, and other basic materials and about the need to rely on volunteers, parents, community members and students themselves because well-trained teachers were not available.

Latvijas Sabiedriskie Mediji. Riga Teacher Training and Educational Management Academy will be shut down on October 1, 2017

New Internationalist. PISA-envy, Pearson and Starbucks-style schools. A scripted curriculum, providing instructions for and explanations of what teachers should do and say during any given moment of a class, is delivered through tablets synchronized with BIA [Bridge] headquarters

Royal Society of the encouragement of Arts. What would Benjamin Franklin say to Wendy Kopp? After leading Teach For America’s growth and development for 24 years, in 2013, Wendy transitioned out of the role of CEO. In Wendy’s acceptance of the medal she asked what Benjamin Franklin would make of today’s world.

UNITED STATES
AACTE.
1) Congress Reaches Deal on Omnibus Spending Bill The Teacher Quality Partnership grants and the Special Education Personnel Preparation program are flat-funded. Title II-A of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), the School Leader Recruitment and Support Grants, and the overall budget for the Institute of Education Sciences are reduced.
2) Final edTPA submission date for 2016-17 is August 17^th. The 2017-2018 edTPA handbooks include no across-the-board changes and only minor changes for six fields—see http://edtpa.aacte.org/ [login required]. See edTPA.com for 2017-18 submission and reporting dates.

AERA/CAEP. Call for Manuscripts. Linking Teacher Preparation Program Design and Implementation to Outcomes for Teachers and Students

EdWeek.
1) Budget Deal for 2017 Includes Increases for Title I, Special Education However, Title II grants for teacher development would be cut by $294 million, down to about $2.1 billion for the rest of fiscal 2017.
2) Planning a Demo Lesson: Critical Thinking Is Key
3) Preschool Teachers Get a Boost in Teaching Early Math But while math experts have agreed that young children should get high-quality math instruction, little has changed in the professional lives of early-childhood educators
4) Teacher Turnover in Alaska is Costing the State $20 Million Annually University of Alaska President Jim Johnsen has made preparing more educators for the state’s classrooms a top priority.
5) Tiny New Mexico District Looks to End Master’s Degree Requirement for Teachers  … four states—Connecticut, Kentucky, Maryland, and New York—require teachers to earn a master’s degree for license advancement. But NCTQ is against such requirements.

Hechinger Report. What’s wrong with white teachers?: Closing the performance gap between black and white teachers means talking about racism

National Council for the Advancement of Educator Ethics (NCAEE). Ethics Survey [May 15 deadline]

NYTimes. School Vouchers Aren’t Working, but Choice Is On one side of the caricature are defenders of traditional public schools, who believe in generous funding, small class sizes and teacher training. On the other are so-called reformers, who believe in vouchers, charter schools and standardized tests.

The Atlantic.
1) How Central Park Could Fix Public Education Higher salaries can help retain effective teachers and lure smart people with an aptitude for instruction away from other jobs, but research points to an even more effective strategy: enhancing the social status of public-school teachers. “What we need,” says Smith’s colleague, Rabin, “is for teachers to be considered scholars.”
2) How Does Race Affect a Student’s Math Education? According to Battey, there are ways in which math teachers, math educators, and math researchers “are perpetuating racism in schools”—which is shaping the expectations, interactions, and kinds of mathematics that students experience.

THE Journal. First-Year Teachers More Confident in Tech but Use It Less Than Experienced Teachers

TheStarPress. Partnerships improve education opportunities In 2009, Ball State’s Teachers College designed an experimental immersive learning program for future elementary educators.

WashingtonPost.
1) Congressional budget deal wards off Trump’s wish list of higher-education cuts
2) James Meredith: This is what Martin Luther King Jr. would tell school ‘reformers’ Today, President Donald Trump and Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos are attempting to improve our schools with “school choice,” vouchers, charter schools, cyber-charters, privatization, putting uncertified “temp teachers” with six weeks training into our highest-needs schools…
3) Under pressure to contain tuition, colleges scramble for other revenue Beacon College [FL]… also signed a contract with the United Arab Emirates under which it will be paid to train teachers there.

NEW YORK STATE
NYSED.
1) Notice of Proposed Rule Making was published in the New York State Register on March 29, 2017. NYSED will accept comments on the proposed teacher certification amendments until May 15. Send comments to [email protected] (link sends e-mail).
2) Proposed Amendment to Add a New Section 80-5.23 to the Regulations of the Commissioner of Education to Establish a Residency Certificate for Students Enrolled in a Classroom Academy Residency Pilot Program.
3) State Education Department Announces 13 Public Meetings To Be Held To Receive Comment On Draft Every Student Succeeds Act Plan

PoliticoNewYork. Excelsior Effect: Restrictions dramatically cut eligibility for free tuition

NEW YORK CITY
NYTimes.
1) Chancellor Praises de Blasio’s Education Gains as Debate to Control Schools Nears “He’s not in any way radical with his reforms,” Priscilla Wohlstetter, a distinguished research professor at Columbia University’s Teachers College, said of Mr. de Blasio. “It’s all been fairly incremental given the national scene.”
2) Sometimes the Birds and the Bees Get Short Shrift in School …of more than 15,000 instructors who taught health in the city last year, only 153 were licensed in health. (About 12,000 were elementary schoolteachers, who typically teach multiple subjects and are unlikely to be licensed in health.)

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Darling-Hammond, Goodwin, et al. Empowered Educators: How High-Performing Systems Shape Teaching Quality Around the World, recently published by Jossey-Bass/Wiley …a landmark, international comparative study of teacher and teaching quality in the world’s top-performing education systems.

EdWeek. Here’s What the U.S. Can Learn About Teaching Quality From Top Countries …a three-year study into how seven high-performing jurisdictions recruit, develop, and support high-quality teachers. 

Inside Higher Ed. E.U. Responds to Hungary’s Higher Education Law

Washington Post. Why Americans should care that Hungary is trying to shut down a leading university

UNITED STATES
AACTE.
1) AACTE, Westat Piloting Surveys of EPP Graduates, Supervisors
2) Lynn Gangone Named Next President and CEO of AACTE
3) “Refreshed” 2017-18 edTPA handbooks and templates will be posted on edtpa.aacte.org by late May/early June 2017.

AERA. 2017 Annual Meeting Program

Brookings Institute.
1) Lessons from the end of free college in England
2) Understanding and addressing teacher shortages in the United States

Education Dive. North Carolina law would let K-12 fill vacancies with college professors … North Carolina’s state legislature has proposed a new bill that would allow profe1ssors in higher ed to teach in K-12 classes as adjunct faculty without first obtaining a teacher’s license.

Education Talk Radio. A Change To Clinical Practice In Teacher Preparation

Education Week.
1) ‘Do Not Underestimate’ the Power of High-Quality STEM Teachers, Bill Clinton Says The national nonprofit to recruit, prepare, and support 100,000 STEM teachers by 2021 is a “stunning success story,” Clinton said on Tuesday.
2) Illinois Lawmakers Look to Overhaul Teacher Licensure Testing Requirements
3) Interview Tip for Teachers: Be Prepared to Be Specific
4) Live from AERA: What Do We Mean When We Talk About Teacher Shortages?
5) Teaching Students to Dissect Questions for Deeper Learning

Educator Voice Fellowship. Teacher Preparation And Retention

Hope Street Group. Teaming Up: Educators Enhance Teacher Prep

Learning Policy Institute. State Policymakers Respond to Teacher Shortages States are also seeking to stem attrition by investing in high-quality preparation programs and improved support for new teachers…

Long Beach Press-Telegram. California eyes teacher pay boosts to keep them in state …up to $20,000 in grants to students who commit to working in a high-need field — bilingual education or special education, as well as science, technology, engineering, or math (STEM) — for four years after receiving their teaching credential.

NCTQ. Unpacking Secondary Certification: State Certification Discontinuity

NYTimes.
1) Sowing Climate Doubt Among Schoolteachers [OpEd] Public school teachers are not the only ones on the institute’s mailing list. College educators are getting copies of the book, too.
2) Where Did All the Black Teachers Go? [Editorial by Brent Staples]

Project Tomorrow. Tomorrow’s Teachers Speak Up Survey [survey open until May 1, 2017]

TCRecord Commentary. Assessing and Resolving California’s Growing Teacher Shortage Crisis …lawmakers should reconsider plans about how to best allocate revenues earned through the legal recreational marijuana market to finance the aforementioned proposed programs.

The Atlantic. The Case for Contentious Curricula …this kind of instruction continues to occur, despite the paucity of professional training for the task…

US Federal Register. Applications for New Awards; Supporting Effective Educator Development (SEED) Program [intent to apply due May 5]

US White House. Presidential Executive Order on Enforcing Statutory Prohibitions on Federal Control of Education

NEW YORK STATE
Chalkbeat.
1) Chancellor Betty Rosa hits back on criticism that New York is abandoning education reform …she cites the Board’s decision to jettison the controversial Academic Literacy Skills Test as part of teacher certification. While Pondiscio blasts the move, Rosa says New York’s certification process remains among the country’s most stringent.
2) CUNY students join chorus of protests against Cuomo’s ‘hypocritical’ college tuition plan
3) In meeting with Betsy DeVos, New York’s education commissioner pushes back on Trump budget

Hechinger Report. Sub shortage leaves schools scrambling when teachers call in sick Niagara Falls City School District Superintendent Mark Laurrie, …said the current shortage in substitute teachers is unprecedented. There once was a time when the district had long lists of qualified teachers

NYS Higher Education Services Corporation. Excelsior Scholarship and Tuition Assistance Program (TAP) [begins Fall 2017]

NYTimes. SUNY Is Set to Make Kristina Johnson, an Engineer, Its Chancellor

Politico. Five things to watch under the new SUNY chancellor A crucial factor will be whether Johnson is able to build up STEM while maintaining other programs and philosophies, such as teacher training initiatives… 

NEW YORK CITY
Chalkbeat. High schoolers say they don’t want to be teachers. Inside one school that’s working to turn the tide …350 students in the [Staten Island] Future Teachers Academy, a hands-on program designed to give high school students a taste of what the job entails.

Diane Ravitch’s blog. When Anxiety Rules: Report from the edTPA front lines [blog post from Mercy College student]

Forbes. The Big Cities Where Teachers Are Paid The Most (And The Least) In third place we find the Big Apple—New York City.

Museum of the City of New York. 5th Annual Teaching Social Activism in the Classroom Conference [Sat. May 6, 9am, free admission]

NY Daily News.
1) Bring young brains to full potential with pre-K for 3-year-olds [by S. Polakow-Suransky, Pres. Bank Street College] The Department of Education has worked tirelessly to hire quality teachers and social workers, provide them with cutting-edge curricula and training, and offers them ongoing coaching and support.
2) Wanted: Many more teachers of color

NYTimes.
1) Never Mind the Students; Homework Divides Parents Tom Hatch, a professor of education at Columbia University’s Teachers College… said homework wars were really a proxy fight about what constitutes learning.
2) New York City Will Offer Free Preschool for All 3-Year-Olds Finding enough teachers for new programs will also be a challenge. The city said … that an additional 4,500 teachers would eventually need to be hired.

The Nation. New York City’s Mayor Proposes Free Universal Preschool for 3-Year-Olds The city will at the same time launch a survey to find space for the broader program, look to recruit nonprofit providers, and find and train teachers.

WCNY Radio. Teacher education and the proposed Trump budget; interview with TC Visiting Assoc. Prof. D. Roosevelt

 

 

NOTE: Teacher Ed News will resume the week of April 24

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Huff Post. In Africa, For-Profit School Chain Plays Legal Hardball  In Bridge International Academies teachers are no longer teachers, but classroom managers who deliver scripted instruction. Many barely have high school educations themselves.

Unite for Quality Education. ‘May’ Days In March: Bridge Asked To Account By UK Parliament  …leads us to conclude that the teacher is just a cypher for learning and managing decisions made in the head office of a distant country thousands of miles away.

UNITED STATES

AACTE.

1) Educators Called to Disrupt Inequality at TeachingWorks Forum [Deborah Ball, Jason Kamras, Ernest Morrell, Na’ilah Suad Nasir]

2) Forum Promotes Systems Approach to Educator Preparation Policy

 

Chalkbeat.

1) Principals matter — and Tennessee wants to do a better job of equipping them  Before, Title II money could only be used to train teachers in four academic core subjects. Now, it can be used to support principals, too.

2) Tennessee overhauls approach to low-performing schools under plan sent to Secretary DeVos  Tennessee’s plan… details how the state will use federal funds for everything from guidance counselors to teacher preparation to arts education.

 

Clayton Christensen Institute. Will deregulation help teacher preparation?

 

EdWeek.

1) Educators Oppose Trump Plan to Scrap Teacher-Support Program  Pedro Rivera, the state chief in Pennsylvania, said his state considered both teacher preparation and educator effectiveness in writing its plan, which proposes moving to a full-year internship for beginning teachers…

2) Teacher-Prep Slow to Embrace Social-Emotional Learning

3) Video: Teachers Learn How to Use Popular Musical ‘Hamilton’ in the Classroom  Last month, 400 New York City public school teachers, half of whom were Teach for America corps members, saw the musical. (This was a fundraiser for Teach for America’s New York chapter and was sponsored by Barclays…)

 

Hope Street Group. The Future of Teacher Prep: A Conversation with Educators and Other Experts [April 11, 10-11:30 EDT]

 

Nashville Teacher Residency. Welcoming NTR’s Second Intern Cohort

 

NEA.

1) The Assimilation of a Student Teacher: A step-by-step plan for smoothly transitioning a future educator into your classroom.

2) When Physical Education Is Cut, Who Picks Up the Slack? …it should be common sense for all school districts to invest in PE as part of the academic day and not to expect classroom teachers — few of whom have training in exercise science — to try to fit it in when they can.

 

Nat’l Educ. Policy Cntr [NEPC]. Review of [NCTQ’s] Within Our Grasp: Achieving Higher Admissions Standards in Teacher Prep

 

NYTimes.

1) 2 Education Dept. Picks Raise Fears on Civil Rights Enforcement  …raising fears that the agency could pull back from enforcing civil rights in schools and on college campuses.

2) Learning to Think Like a Computer  …“computational thinking” is captivating educators, from kindergarten teachers to college professors, offering a new language and orientation to tackle problems in other areas of life.

3) Who Needs Charters When You Have Public Schools Like These?  …a Union teacher with two decades’ experience and a doctorate earns less than $50,000. Her counterpart in Scarsdale, N.Y., earns more than $120,000.

 

SeattleTimes. Innovative training program places more teachers of color in Seattle’s public schools

 

Picower, B. & Kohli, R. (Eds.). (2017.) Confronting Racism in Teacher Education: Counternarratives of Critical Practice. New York: Routledge.

 

Singularity University. 6 Tips on the Future of Learning from Actual Teenage Exponential Thinkers  The role of the educator, however, is shifting from an individual who delivers facts to that of a guide… Their favorite teachers were those who asked questions, not those who gave answers.

 

The Atlantic. The Alt-Right Curriculum: Teachers are facilitating conversations with students about white nationalism.

 

NEW YORK STATE

Buffalo News. Buffalo looks to own students to diversify teaching force  Students who finish the program will be given preference for jobs in the city schools – in exchange for a five-year commitment to teach in Buffalo once they graduate.

 

Chalkbeat. As state budget debate rages on, Board of Regents set to push back on Success Academy renewals  The Regents will hear a presentation about establishing a computer science teaching certificate.

 

NYSED Regents. Board of Regents Act To Amend State’s Teacher Certification Requirements Based On Recommendations Of Expert Panel And Public Input  NYSED will accept comments on the proposed amendments for 45 days. Please email comments to [email protected](link sends e-mail)

 

NEW YORK CITY

Chalkbeat. Students were allowed to enroll in troubled Renewal schools — even after they were slated for closure  Aaron Pallas, a professor at Teachers College, said that given the thousands of students who are assigned mid-year, sending 25 to closing schools did not seem like a large number.

 

TCRecord.

1) Teaching for Social Justice in the Early Childhood Classroom [commentary]

2) Mindful L2 Teacher Education: A Sociocultural Perspective on Cultivating Teachers’ Professional Development [book review]

 

NOTE: Teacher Ed News will resume the week of April 24

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7th International Summit on the Teaching Profession (ISTP) in Scotland. March 30-31, 2017 [US Secretary of Ed. declined invitation]

Education International. To Africa And Back: Low-Fee For-Profit Schools In England The school’s website proclaims ‘we believe teachers are born, not made’, which is often used as code to indicate that teacher education is unnecessary and that professional credentials are not required. 

IEN. The potential, promise and pitfalls of blended learning in India …a number of digital initiatives are underway aimed at improving education in areas that lack sufficient trained and experienced teachers. 

NEA Today. Despite Inclusive Policies, Refugee Children Face Major Obstacles to Education Many times teachers are not prepared for refugee needs and lack training, as well as teaching and learning materials.

NYTimes. Why Kids Shouldn’t Sit Still in Class

Wall Street Journal. Teachers Unions Support Good Schools for Africans [OpEd by R. Weingarten] In Kenya the “low-cost” Bridge model relies on poor families…. Students are fed a cookie-cutter curriculum in run-down buildings where more than 70% of teachers are unqualified.

UNITED STATES
AACTE.
1) 2018 AACTE Annual Meeting Submission Site Now Open March 1-3, 2018; Baltimore, MD
2) Darling-Hammond: Time to Keep Our Hand on the Plow (Hold On!)
3) Harper: Prepare All Teachers to Discuss Race, Champion Equity
4) Teacher Prep Regulations Officially Rescinded Title II data reporting and the state report cards are still required by law… through the Higher Education Act. It is important that you engage with your PK-12 colleagues and your state …given that Title II of ESSA is filled with opportunities for educator preparation.

AERA. Amy Stuart Wells Voted AERA President-Elect

Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation. CAEP Answers Your Questions on Recognition Status, Moving Toward Uniform Accreditation Process

EdWeek.
1) Study: A Teacher’s Encouragement Gives Students a Lasting Boost
2) Teachers Skeptical About ESSA, Want More Voice in Policy Development Teachers ranked mentorship programs for new teachers as the most important way federal money for teacher-training could be used under ESSA.
3) Trump Signs Bill Scrapping Teacher-Prep Rules
4) What Would Trump’s Proposed Cut to Teacher Funding Mean for Schools? …mentoring and induction programs for principals and teacher-leaders and revising certification and preparation programs. 

Hope Street Group. The Future of Teacher Prep: A Conversation with Educators and Other Experts [April 11, Washington, DC]

National Council of Teachers of English. Resolution Opposing High-Stakes Teacher Candidate Performance Assessments High-stakes teacher candidate performance assessments do not meet NCTE’s characteristics of a fair, effective, and successful system of teacher evaluation

NYTimes.
1) Student Loan Forgiveness Program Approval Letters May Be Invalid, Education Dept. Says
2) Trump Signs Legislation Rolling Back Obama-Era Regulations Two of the regulations nullified Monday had to do with school performance and teacher preparation programs.

Shelby Star [NC]. Schooling future educators

Truth in American Education. How Dumb Do We Want Prospective Teachers To Be?

US News & World Report. Graduate Teacher Residency Programs Help Educators Make the Grade

USAToday. Mr. Trump, Don’t boost our budgets while cutting education: Charter school CEOs  AmeriCorps, and other teacher recruitment, training and preparation programs, should be invested in, not abandoned.

Washington Post.
1) The irony in Ivanka Trump’s and Betsy DeVos’s push for STEM education   There was also no mention of the 13.5 percent in cuts Trump has proposed to the Education Department, which include the reduction or elimination of grants for teacher training…
2) Trump budget cuts could hit research universities hard, Moody’s warns

NEW YORK STATE
Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities (CICU). 45,000 Jobs, $224 Million in Tax Revenues Could Be Lost If “Free” Tuition Plan Goes Forward, Says New Report The analysis concluded that there would be significant enrollment reductions at private, not-for-profit colleges and universities with accompanying negative economic effects. 

Chalkbeat. ‘We need an opposite narrative’: Chancellor Betty Rosa on her year of trying to reshape New York’s education debate   at the last Board of Regents meeting, she defended the decision to drop one of four teacher certification requirements, an academic literacy skills test.

NYS Register; Rule Making Activities [March 29].
1) Eliminate Academic Literacy Skills Test for Teacher Certification, Remove Unnecessary References to Liberal Arts and Science (EP)
2) Multiple Measures Process for the edTPA (P)

New York Post.
1) New York’s lunatic way of running education This month, notably, they actually scrapped the literacy-test requirement for teaching-job applicants.
2) The latest snake-oil fix for minority education In front of a packed room at South by Southwest this month, Emdin, a professor at Columbia Teachers College…

SUNY. Faculty Participation in Focus Group Meetings on Principal Preparation

The74.
1) As NY Lawmakers Mull Budget to Expand Charter Schools, Fears of Federal Cuts May Shift Political Alliances   But this year may be very different, said Jeffrey Henig, professor of political science and education at Teachers College, Columbia University.
2) 3 Reasons New York Was Right to Drop Its Teacher Literacy Test

NEW YORK CITY
Teachers College.
1) Early Career Award; Leticia Lyle | M.A. 2011, Elementary Inclusive Education Instituto Singularidades… in Brazil focused solely on Teaching and Learning, with the challenge of developing models for preparing teachers to teach in our complex world.
2) TC’s Brooks-Gunn Recommends Expansion of Federal Early Childhood Programs at House Committee Hearing To sustain Head Start’s positive effects into elementary school, coordination of curricula and teacher training between preschool and early elementary school are needed.