Tag: teacher

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EUReporter. Inclusive education and tailored approaches can help combat poor educational outcomes for #Roma   Camille Gangloff of the Council of Europe presented the INSCHOOL project, the aim of which was to enhance social inclusion of Roma by promoting inclusive education and teacher training in selected schools in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia and the UK.

UNITED STATES
Education Week.
1) Average Teacher Salary Is Below the Living Wage in Half the Country, Report Says   States with low teacher salaries… tend to have more teacher shortages, a higher teacher turnover rate, and more uncertified and novice teachers than those states that pay the most.
2) Indiana continues to see teacher shortage amid drop in pay   According to 2015 data from the Indiana Commission for Higher Education, enrollment in teaching programs and those graduating with teaching degrees declined 37 percent from 2004 through 2014.
3) New money for program to help veterans become teachers   The U.S. Department of Defense has awarded a nearly $2 million grant for a Virginia program designed to help veterans become teachers.
4) Teachers With Signs of Depression May Do Less Planning, Explaining of Lessons   … very few teacher-preparation programs work with preservice teachers to identify and talk about their feelings, or how to manage stress.

Hechinger Report. Should taxpayers and schools invest in ‘growth mindset’ programs?   Growth mindset could turn out to be one of many tools that can help kids, along with well-trained teachers, safe schools, well-fed students, great curricula…the list goes on and on.

Inside Higher Ed.
1) California Higher Ed Leaders Oppose PROSPER Act
2) Higher Ed Innovation Roundup 6.11.18 BestFit is an app designed to help high school students find an institution that fits them best. It connects high school students with first-generation college students through an online interface. The app was designed by the winners of the Teachers College EdTEch Innovation award. [TC student designers incl: Rebecca Kwee, Asha Owens, Danielle Llaneza]
3) New data analysis from American Academy of Arts and Sciences says humanities Ph.D.s may earn less than their counterparts in other fields but are satisfied — particularly if they stay in academe.
4) Seeking Votes on PROSPER, GOP Appears to Come Up Short   GOP leaders quiet on next step for PROSPER Act after gauging member support this week, suggesting little chance of floor vote soon on House Republicans’ bid to overhaul Higher Education Act.

NEAToday.
1) Sex Education in Schools Needs an Upgrade   The standards have been supplemented with a variety of resources, including standards for teacher preparation and tools that can help educators develop or map their systems and find research supporting its recommendations.
2) Who is the Average U.S. Teacher?   The percentage of public school teachers who hold a postbaccalaureate degree (i.e., a master’s, education specialist, or doctoral degree) has increased since 1999-2000.

Pearson. 2018-19 edTPA Submission & Reporting Schedule [NOTE. Final 2017-18 submission date, August 16, 2018]

The Atlantic. The Long, Contentious History of the ‘Word Gap’ Study   One 2017 study published in the Harvard Education Review even found that the word-gap research had the unintended consequence of perpetuating negative stereotypes about the children of Latino immigrants, with teachers in classrooms serving such students resorting to less-sophisticated instruction.

NEW YORK STATE
Chalkbeat. While revealing $7 billion education plan, Nixon criticizes schools that leave kids ‘destined for jail’ Nixon says she wants to tackle this teacher diversity gap across the state by investing $6 million annually in the Teacher Opportunity Corps, a state program designed to recruit and train more teachers of color.

NYSED Regents. June Meetings
1) Proposed Amendment to Section 80-1.5 of the Regulations of the Commissioner of Education Relating to the Extension of the edTPA Safety Net for Candidates Who Receive a Failing Score on the Library Specialist edTPA
2) Proposed Amendment to §80-1.5 Relating to Reinstatement of the Educational Technology Specialist Content Specialty Test Safety Net
3) Proposed Amendment to Section 80-4.3 of the Regulations of the Commissioner of Education Relating to Grade-Level Extensions for Certain Candidates Who Hold a Students with Disabilities Generalist Teaching Certificate
4) Proposed Amendment to Section 80-4.3 of the Regulations of the Commissioner of Education Relating to Grade-Level Extensions for Certain Candidates Who Hold a Students with Disabilities Generalist Teaching Certificate
5) Reappointments to the State Professional Standards and Practices Board for Teaching (PSPB)

New York Post. Top education official on cheating scandal: Diplomas must mean something   “If you don’t know how to teach children, you can cheat or you can fail. Some choose to cheat,” said Eric Nadelstern, now a professor at Teachers College Columbia University. “If they teach students well, they’ll do well on the test and they don’t have to resort to cheating.”

New York Times. Cynthia Nixon’s Education Plan: Ambitious, Progressive, Expensive Another major initiative, called “College for All New York,” would provide free tuition to an additional 170,000 students at State University of New York and City University of New York schools each year, a project the campaign said would cost $600 million annually.

NEW YORK CITY
Barnard College/Bank Street College. Convening of Teacher Educators June 20  [Maria Rivera Maulucci <[email protected]>, Lisa Edstrom at [email protected]]

GLOBAL
Pädagogische Hochschule Zürich. US Secretary of Education visits PH Zurich  Betsy DeVos, Secretary of Education of the United States, visited the PH Zurich on June 6, 2018. The education system and teacher education in Switzerland were at the center of her interest.

Al-Monitor. Egypt’s education system set for major overhaul   “…teachers must undergo training and professional development. Therefore, the ministry aims to train about 500,000 teachers across all governorates through Teachers First, a development program for teacher training.”

EdWeek. The Gates Foundation’s Education Plans Go International   Gates recently announced a change in strategy to its U.S. education programming, with a heavier focus on improvement replacing its former emphasis on teacher performance.

NYTimes. Mexican Court Orders New Investigation Into Missing Students  On Sept. 26, 2014, the 43 students from a teachers college disappeared in the town of Iguala in the southern state of Guerrero. The Attorney General’s Office said local police working for a drug cartel handed the students over to cartel members.

UNITED STATES
Chronicle. An Update of the Federal Law Governing Higher Ed Appears Dead. Now There’s a Fight Over Who Killed It.  …the Prosper Act. It is broadly unpopular with Democrats in Congress, college leaders, and many student-advocate groups because it would eliminate the subsidy on student loans that students now receive while in school, and would eliminate Grad PLUS loans, among other provisions.

Credible. Student loan cutbacks not expected to land on Trump’s desk this year   Even if the PROSPER Act sails through the House — a vote is expected as soon as this month — Republicans have a slimmer majority in the Senate. Democrats who hope to win back control of Congress in November aren’t expected to allow the bill to come to a vote.

EdSurge.
1) Computer Science Educators Wanted: How This New Program Is Addressing the Shortage   Public-private partnerships are one way to address the nation-wide shortage of computer science-trained educators, and the latest comes in the form of STEMpath, a new graduate-level educator certification program that isn’t quite a master’s degree.
2) The Key to 21st Century Classrooms Isn’t Tech. It’s Evolved Teaching.  The power of the teacher comes not [from] the information she shares but from the opportunities she creates for students to learn how to learn, solve problems, and apply learning in meaningful ways.

edTPA/AACTE/Pearson. October Teacher Performance Assessment (TPA) Conference [Proposals Due June 15]

EdWeek.
1) Louisiana Hopes New Early-Childhood Credential Will Professionalize Workforce   Starting in 2019, all lead early-childhood teachers will be required to have a state-developed Early Childhood Ancillary Certificate, or be working toward one.
2) Ready for a Shooter? 1 in 5 School Police Say No   Thirty-three percent of officers responding to the Education Week Research Center survey agreed that “training and arming a select group of teachers would make schools safer.”
3) Want to Produce Good STEM Teachers? This Program Is Getting Results   Texas science and math teachers who are trained in the UTeach preparation program are substantially better at raising student test scores than other teachers in the state, a new study shows.

HechingerReport. Oklahoma externship pays teachers for hands-on experience in engineering and science   According to the Oklahoma State School Boards Association, in August, 2017, there were more than 500 teaching vacancies in Oklahoma. The state approved more than 1,400 emergency teaching certificates, allowing schools to hire people who were not yet certified teachers.

InsideHigherEd. Softening Claims of the Marshmallow Test   He said researchers and educators need to be more careful when making pronouncements about ideas like self-control, and to temper our expectations. “If we think that this is actually an important skill that we try to target for kids to unlock later life outcomes,” he said, “our results suggest, ‘Probably not.’”

NYTimes.
1) In the Age of Trump, Civics Courses Make a Comeback   For those teaching civics and civic engagement, the goal isn’t to get students to finish one project, but to make community involvement a habit — and one type of action often does lead to another.
2) The Cost of Going Back to School as an Adult   IBM’s Transition to Teaching program reimburses $15,000 of expenses to become certified as a teacher — an undertaking that Keith Gordon, 64, an IT software specialist, accomplished four years ago while working at IBM.

NEW YORK STATE
NYTimes. Gordon M. Ambach, New York Education Chief in ’80s, Dies at 83   He graduated from Yale in 1956 with a bachelor’s degree in American studies and earned a master’s in teaching and an advanced certificate in education administration from Harvard.

Senate bill S08776; Assembly bill A10952. Contact your elected state legislators Urge them to co-sponsor proposed bills to amend the legislation that requires a 3.0 GPA for admission to graduate teacher education and school leader programs.

NEW YORK CITY
DailyKos. Building Bridges: A Good News Education Story [OpEd by Prof. A. Singer] The Hofstra program prepares teachers to engage their students as active learners who are comfortable living and working in diverse settings and examining difficult issues. The goal is that these young people, as they grow older, will become change agents who will work toward a more equitable and just future.

NYTimes. In a Twist, Low Scores Would Earn Admission to Select Schools   Amy Stuart Wells, a professor at Teachers College at Columbia University, said that all students can achieve at a higher level if teachers are well-trained and use an approach targeted to each child’s level of achievement, among other things.

GLOBAL
Education International. High Court slams Bridge International Academies   The U.S. based  multinational has a chain of for profit, private schools targeting poor families in an increasing number of African and Asian countries. It uses unqualified teaching staff, who deliver pre-determined content from a tablet to fee paying students.  

University World News [AU]. Teacher development is neglected in internationalization  In particular, our research indicates the need for teacher training and professional development programmes to include pedagogic strategies to assist international students with enhancing their English language skills and facilitating effective communication with international students from non-English speaking backgrounds. 

Webster University. Teacher Education Students Immersed in International Practicum in Leiden, the Netherlands

UNITED STATES
AACTE/edTPA. edTPA Handbook Improvement Survey

Chalkbeat. Here’s where you can find new workforce training classes in Memphis   Roughly 15 teachers will given the opportunity to train in one of the new focus areas next year, according to Joris Ray, an assistant superintendent. The district will pay for another 45 teachers to take an IT certification exam and ongoing training.

EdWeek.
1) 5 Ways Teachers Can Use Virtual and Augmented Reality in the Classroom   Immersive-reality technology is slowly creeping into the education world, whether as a tool for training new teachers or adding excitement to student learning.
2)  Have Your Feelings for Black and Latino Students Lowered Your Expectations for Them?  [By J. Pitts, MA student at Teachers College] Especially while the teaching force remains mostly white and female, we have to wrestle with some uncomfortable truths. Are your goals for your black and brown students different for your white students, and how can you change that?
3) Is STEM Oversold as a Path to Better Jobs?   Studies have reached mixed results about what kind of teacher training makes a difference for STEM outcomes. Several studies conclude, though, that teachers who demonstrate math-content knowledge are linked to greater student-test scores in that subject.
4) Mississippi cuts math teacher test score, citing shortage   Supporters say Mississippi set its score too high in 2013, when it joined most other states in requiring a score of 160 on a standardized test of mathematical knowledge known as the Praxis II. 

InsideHigherEd.
1) House GOP Plans Meeting on PROSPER Act
2) New Fix for Public Service Loans   Borrowers may qualify if they have been denied for Public Service Loan Forgiveness because some or all monthly payments were not made under a qualifying payment plan, if they worked for at least 10 years for a qualifying employer, and if they have made 120 payments on their federal student loans. 

Money. ‘I Didn’t Really Have a Choice.’ Meet the Teachers Quitting Their Jobs Due to Low Pay and Dwindling Benefits  Over the last five years, there has been a 35 percent decline in enrollment in teacher education programs, Darling-Hammond said. Potential teachers can be lured into other fields with more promising wages like tech — or waitressing and bartending.

NYTimes. Kentucky Math Teacher, Riding Wave of Public Anger, Defeats State House Majority Leader   The most significant changes affect future teachers, whose pensions would be part of a new retirement plan and require them to work longer before receiving payments.

NPREd. Education Department Launches ‘Top-To-Bottom’ Review Of Teachers’ Grant Program   This is how the grant program works: It gives teachers money, often called TEACH grants, to pay for an undergraduate or a master’s degree. In exchange, they agree to teach a high-need subject, such as math, for four years in a school that serves lots of low-income families.

USAToday. Democrats have a better deal for teachers and our kids, too: Chuck Schumer & Nancy Pelosi   First, we will dedicate $50 billion for states and school districts to increase teacher compensation and recruit and retain a strong, diverse workforce over the next 10 years.

US News & World Report. What Veterans Need to Know About Student Loan Discharges   The Education Department will now match borrowers on the National Student Loan Data System who have federal student loans or aid through the Teacher Education Assistance for College and Higher Education, or TEACH Grant Program, to the VA’s database.

Washington Post. Is Congress about to gut funding for teacher preparation programs?    PROSPER is the Promoting Real Opportunity, Success and Prosperity Through Education Reform Act, …now goes to the full House for a vote, probably this week; the Senate has not yet taken it up. Along with eliminating millions of dollars in federal student aid and other actions, PROSPER would also eliminate federal funding for teacher preparation programs.

NEW YORK STATE
NYSED.
1) Next Generation Learning Standards Implementation
2) State Education Department Awards $750,000 in My Brother’s Keeper Native American Grants   Also…NYSED awarded grants to 16 colleges and universities to help them bolster the retention of highly qualified individuals who value equity and reflect the diversity inside and outside of our classrooms, particularly in high-need schools with recurrent teacher shortages. 

Pearson/NYSTCE. seeking candidates to participate in a field test of selected-response (multiple-choice) and constructed-response (essay) items that may appear on future NYSTCE

NEW YORK CITY
Chalkbeat. Why a medical school prospect decided to teach chemistry in New York City instead

Chronicle. Which Colleges Pay Full Professors the Most?
Private nonprofit institutions   5. Columbia University $215,094   19. Teachers College. $176,518

Pix11 News. Pre-K or sit at home? Programs for kids with special needs are in trouble  Private programs pay certified special education teachers $20,000 to $30,000 less than a special education teacher earns in New York City’s public schools. The public schools hire many teachers away from the nonprofits, resulting in a 30 percent teacher turnover rate.

GLOBAL
The Guardian. How PhD-educated teachers help state school pupils get into highly selective-universities   In 2014, after several years of placing PhD students in schools to deliver programmes of academic enrichment to small groups of pupils, the charity decided to go further and create a route for post-doctoral researchers who wanted to work in schools full-time and become qualified teachers.

Times Higher Education. Mexico’s brain drain leaves universities struggling to fill research posts   “Most of these schools are for-profit businesses where teachers are paid little, so quality teachers are hard to hire: very few have university degrees.”

ReliefWeb. Republic of Congo: Don Bosco Vocational Training Center launches new improvement plan to introduce new course and increase teacher training   The overall goal of the project is to improve the training of 21 teachers and increase student enrollment by 3,000 over the next three years.

St. Lucia News. OECS (Organ. Of Eastern Caribbean States) states to re-engineer teacher education  Chief Education Officers, Directors of Education, principals and deans of the national colleges, teacher educators, curriculum officers and teachers all collaborated to identify actions which should be taken to enhance teacher education and professional development and essentially teacher quality.

TES. University gives £500 to everyone signing up for teacher training course   Bath Spa University says the payments are a ‘thank you’ for those choosing to become a teacher

UNITED STATES
Chalkbeat. Why Colorado’s teacher shortage bills fall short   Colorado already has roughly two dozen “alternative pathways,” training other than traditional university educator-preparation programs, often for teachers who are already in the classroom with temporary credentials. Doing away with licensure doesn’t seem to be a magic bullet. Many charter schools hire unlicensed teachers but still have a hard time filling certain positions.

EducationNext. Rating Teacher-Preparation Programs: Can value-added make useful distinctions?  It’s not helpful to rank a state’s programs by teachers’ value-added. With rare exceptions, the true differences between programs are so small that rankings would consist mostly of noise.

EducationWeek.
1) Connecticut legislature seeks boost for minority teachers   The legislation approved this week could help by creating new ways to obtain teacher certification and improve coordination with state agencies to identify candidates, Commissioner Dianna Wentzell said.
2) I Was a Doctor. Now I’m a Teacher. Why Don’t I Get the Same Level of Respect?   During the early years of the Great Recession, after 14 years in medicine, I hung up my stethoscope and began training to become a teacher.

Hechinger Report. 20 judgments a teacher makes in 1 minute and 28 seconds   Loewenberg Ball makes the argument that teacher training ought to address these constant judgment calls directly… She called upon education researchers to develop a “repertoire” of teaching practices that could help counter racist habits.

The Sentinel.  Secure Schools: University adapts teacher training to meet post-Parkland concerns  Like other colleges, Shippensburg University can’t train its students to a specific protocol as each school district will have its own set of policies and procedures. It does, however, train them to ask appropriate questions to be able to see the overall safety picture at a school as early as during the interview for a teaching position.

NEW YORK STATE
NYS FY 2019 Executive Budget
1) Teacher Loan Forgiveness Program  The recently passed 2019 Budget included a new Teacher Loan Forgiveness Program that would forgive up to $5,000 in student loans for teachers who teach in “shortage subject areas” or in “hard-to-staff districts,” or for applicants who are economically disadvantaged
2) New Report on Teacher Diversity  … require the State Education Department… to submit a report to the Governor and Legislature by June 1, 2019. The report will include information and data on teacher diversity, barriers to diversity in teacher preparation programs, efforts teacher preparation programs are taking to recruit and retain diverse student populations, and recommendations on practices and policies that may improve teacher diversity.

NYSED.
Open Comment Periods
1) Public Comment Period on Proposed Every Student Succeeds Act Regulations  The public comment period on proposed regulations to prepare for implementation of New York’s approved Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) plan begins today, Commissioner MaryEllen Elia announced. The public comment period continues through July 9.
2) Teacher Certification in Health Education (P) The proposed regulations will create a new Transitional K Certificate for certain New York State licensed health professionals (physician; physician assistant; nurse practitioner, or registered professional nurse) allowing them to teach health education in schools. The comment period on the proposed regulations closes May 27. Address data, views or arguments to: NYSED Office of Higher Education, [email protected].
3)  To Allow Individual Evaluation for Certain Certificate Titles in the Classroom Teaching Service To help address the reported teacher shortages in New York State, SED is proposing to reinstate individual evaluation for the following certificate titles: Early Childhood Education (Birth-Grade 2), Childhood Education (Grades 1-6), Generalist in Middle Childhood Education (Grades 5-9), English Language Arts (Grades 5-9 and Grades 7-12), and Literacy (Birth-Grade 6 and Grades 5-12). The 60-day comment period on the proposed regulations closes on June 24, 2018. Address data, views or arguments to: Rebecca Coyle, NYSED, Office of Higher Education, 89 Washington Avenue, Room 975 EBA, Albany, NY 12234, (518) 486-3633, email: [email protected]

NYSED Office of Higher Education. New Assistant Commissioner Dr. Anael Alston (Teachers College; MA 2010, EdD 2011)

NYSED Regents. May meetings
Motion for Action
1) Proposed Amendment to Section 100.2(kk)(1) of the Commissioner’s Regulations Relating to Reports of Incidents of Harassment, Bullying and/or Discrimination Pursuant to the Dignity for All Students Act  A Notice of Proposed Rulemaking and Emergency Adoption will be published in the State Register on May 23, starting the 60-day public comment period which will end July 23.
2) Proposed Amendment of Section 80-5.4 of the Regulations of the Commissioner of Education Relating to the Employment of Substitute Teachers Who Do Not Hold a Valid Teaching Certificate and Are Not Working Towards Certification-(Emergency Action). …proposed amendment to allow districts to continue to be provided with the flexibility needed to address their hiring needs and employ substitute teachers who demonstrate competency in the classroom for more than 40 days beyond the current sunset date of June 30, 2018 and through the new sunset date of June 30, 2020.
3) Proposed Addition of a New Section 80-3.16 to the Regulations of the Commissioner of Education to Allow Individuals Completing a Program Accredited by the American Speech, Language, and Hearing Association (ASHA) to Obtain an Initial Certificate in Speech  This proposal would provide another option for qualified candidates both out of state and in New York to gain certification to teach students with speech and language disabilities

Discussion
Clinical Practice Work Group Recommendations for Clinical Experiences in New York State Teacher Preparation Programs

Consent Agenda
1) Proposed Amendment to Section 52.21 of the Regulations of the Commissioner of Education Relating to Graduate Admission Examination Requirements to Implement Chapter 454 of the Laws of 2017  …remove the requirement for certified teachers and school administrators who already hold a graduate degree to take either the GRE or a substantially equivalent admission examination…
2) Proposed Amendment to Section 80-1.5 of the Regulations of the Commissioner of Education Relating to Safety Nets for Teacher Certification Examinations  Candidates must continue to take advantage of safety nets before their applicable expiration date(s)… however, they do not have to complete all additional requirements for certification on or before June 30, 2018.
3) Proposed Amendment to Subpart 4-2 of the Rules of the Board of Regents and Section 52.21 of the Regulations of the Commissioner of Education Relating to the Continuous Accreditation Requirement for Educator Preparation Providers  …will allow institutions that are currently accredited by NCATE, TEAC, or CAEP to apply for accreditation through an accrediting association that is seeking recognition from the CHEA or USDE, but has not yet achieved recognition status, and still meet the “continuous accreditation requirement” …

Rockefeller Institute for Government. The State of the New York Teacher Workforce   The future effects of the declining supply of prospective teachers may be exacerbated by their specializations. When compared to the current teacher workforce, few recent graduates of teacher education programs are prepared to teach the core subjects of mathematics, science, English, and social studies as well as such subjects as career and technical training, music, and art.

NEW YORK CITY
Association for Advancing Quality in Educator Preparation AAQEP Transition Workshop Interchurch Center 475 Riverside Drive, Fri. June 15

NYTimes. A Teacher’s Job [OpEd]  …concern is expressed that grouping children of different abilities in the same school is too taxing for educators. As a public-school teacher, I am offended by this. Teaching multiple ability levels in a classroom is an integral part of any teacher’s education and training. Plain and simple, it’s our job.

Teachers College.
1) William Fong (MA 2011, Elementary Inclusive Program) teacher at Central Park East II Elementary School, wins 2018 Empire State Excellence in Teaching Award.
2) Widening TC’s Doors: Alumnus William Epps, Pastor of Los Angeles’ historic Second Baptist Church, makes a generous scholarship gift  “I don’t know if Teachers College is aware of the influence and impact they had on shaping education for African Americans all across the South during the days of segregation and discrimination in civil rights …They trained teachers, they trained guidance counselors, they trained principals and assistant principals – you name it.”

GLOBAL
EdWeek. Professionalizing Teaching Isn’t About More Compensation For the Same Occupation    … things that the countries with the best-performing education systems have done to assure a steady supply of first rate teachers… include raising the standards for admission to teacher education programs, much more rigorous programs of education in the subjects to be taught and much better training for the craft of teaching…

International Education News. The Latest Recommendations for Education Reform in Finland

NYTimes. Facing Budget Cuts and Teacher Shortages at Home, American School Districts Look Abroad to Hire   …the Philippines purposefully trains teachers, nurses and other workers “in a way that it’s easy for them to pass muster from licensing authorities here. They obviously speak English and they are willing to work.”

UNITED STATES
AssociatedPress. Proposed rule on teacher preparation programs draws pushback   A rule that would allow the New Mexico Public Education Department to oversee teacher preparation programs has garnered criticism and pushback by school leaders and education groups.

EdWeek.
1) Arizona Teachers Face Heavy Resistance as They Continue to Strike.  … consequences for teachers could be if there are complaints made about their refusal to work—but they could include a letter of censure, suspension, or the revocation of their teaching license.
2) Museums Are Dabbling in Teacher Training, and the Results Are Promising
3) Playing Games in Teacher Education: How Do Preservice Teachers Respond to Game-Based Learning

Hechinger Report. Are teachers losing their grip on the middle class?   At Arizona’s three public universities, enrollment in undergraduate and graduate teaching programs has dropped by nearly twenty per cent since 2008. Over the same period, nationally, the number of college students majoring in education declined by fourteen per cent.

InsideHigherEd.
1) Economist to Lead Harvard School of Education
2) Private Lenders Eye Graduate Loan Market   The council argues that graduate students should have the option to take out private loans if they so choose but should also be able to borrow federal loans up to the full cost of their education. Students who aren’t able to do so, the group argues, lose access to benefits like income-driven repayment plans and Public Service Loan Forgiveness.

Kappa Delta Pi. Getting Political About Teacher Preparation for Multilingual Learners [OpEd]   …most programs do not offer sufficient experiences to develop “sociopolitical consciousness,” or understanding of how social and political issues affect the education of multilingual learners.

NEA Today.
1) How Independent Teacher Prep Programs Fail Our Most Vulnerable Students
2) It is Time for Betsy DeVos to Resign   She led the charge to cut $9.2 billion from the Department of Education—eliminating teacher training programs and college prep courses for students in poverty.

NYTimes. Teacher Pay Is So Low in Some U.S. School Districts That They’re Recruiting Overseas   Many short-staffed schools turn to Teach for America, which recruits recent college graduates and career-changers for two-year stints in the classroom. But to hire a Teach for America recruit, who may have no teaching experience or coursework in education, the district must pay $5,000 per teacher, in addition to salaries.

Teachers College. Professor William Gaudelli will become Dean of Lehigh University’s College of Education

The Harvard Crimson. Faust Says Bacow Will ‘Focus’ on PROSPER Act, Though Bill Remains Stalled   …the bill is stalled in the House and the outcome of the Nov. 2018 midterm elections will likely have significant bearing on whether the PROSPER Act progresses.

The State.
1) ‘All of that costs money’: Solving SC’s teacher crisis is going to be expensive  Several legislative proposals would ease the financial burden on teachers looking to renew their certification or increase their pay.
2) No US passport. No education degree. Meet your child’s new SC teacher  Increasingly, they’re recruiting them from other countries and other states and through programs that, for example, take professionals in other careers and turn them into teachers in a matter of months.

NEW YORK STATE
NYSED Office of Higher Education.
1) April Newsletter

•                   edTPA Safety Net
•                   Individual Evaluation Certification Pathway
•                   TeachNY and NY Teacher Table
•                   Clinical Practice Work Group Recommendations
•                   Caep Draft Partnership Agreement
•                   Office of Higher Education New Assistant Commissioner
•                   NYSTCE Test Development Activities

2) Critical information re edTPA

NEW YORK CITY
Chalkbeat. New York City to add almost 50 bilingual programs, the latest in a push to help English learners  …the education department is helping with tuition reimbursement for other Albanian-speaking teachers who are working towards earning certifications to teach English learners.  

GLOBAL
KT Press. Rwanda Launches $6M Technical Teacher Training Institute

Phnom Penh Post. Cambodia Teacher Training Project (CTTP)

The Star, Kenya. Number of trainees in teacher training colleges rises, bureau statistics show

UNITED STATES
Association for Teacher Educators. CFP Annual Meeting Atlanta, GA Feb. 15-19 [deadline July 1]

Chalkbeat. Newark looks to build school-to-work ‘pipeline’ by boosting vocational education   Individuals who have studied or worked in certain industries can get provisional teaching certificates, but they must then undergo two years of classroom supervision and coursework to become fully certified.

Chronicle of Higher Education.
1) Drew Cloud Is a Well-Known Expert on Student Loans. One Problem: He’s Not Real.  After The Chronicle spent more than a week trying to verify Cloud’s existence, the company that owns The Student Loan Report confirmed that Cloud was fake.
2) It Matters a Lot Who Teaches Introductory Courses. Here’s Why.   Because Ran’s new paper combines administrative data from six community colleges with a detailed faculty survey, it is able to shed light on why students who take early courses with adjuncts (a term it uses interchangeably with part-time faculty) fare worse, said Ran, a senior research assistant in the Community College Research Center at Teachers College of Columbia University.

CNN Opinion [L. Darling-Hammond] What teacher strikes are really about  Because teaching has grown so unattractive as a profession, teacher education enrollments have dropped by more than 30% in recent years while turnover also climbed.

Education Week. ‘I Am Scared to Walk Into a Classroom’: A Preservice Teacher on School Violence   This cannot be an issue on which future teachers remain idle and silent, twiddling our thumbs. Current teachers, responding to suggestions from lawmakers that teachers should be armed, began the #ArmMeWith movement… It’s never too early for preservice teachers to join the conversation.

Hechinger Report. Study: The U.S. isn’t doing enough to prepare students for the automation age   …the five top-performing countries have all started to adapt teacher education for the workforce changes ahead, the study says. This often involves training teachers in the use of advanced technologies.

Inside Higher Ed. Pentagon on PROSPER [US Higher Education Act reauthorization] Public Service Loan Forgiveness, which was created with bipartisan support in 2007, promises that student loan borrowers who work for employers in the public or nonprofit sector and make 120 qualifying monthly payments will have the remainder of their federal loan balance discharged. It potentially makes the armed forces, as well as other public employers, attractive to younger workers [including teachers] who might not consider that option otherwise…

Learning Policy Institute. Diversifying the Teacher Workforce: How to Recruit and Retain Teachers of Color   Barriers to recruitment and retention include: Inadequate teacher preparation when teachers enter through alternative routes and try to teach while they are in training…

NYTimes.
1) Public Servants Are Losing Their Foothold in the Middle Class   “My adjusted gross income is $28,000,” said Shala Marshall, a Spanish teacher at Jenks High School. A 17-year veteran with a master’s degree and a finalist for Oklahoma teacher of the year, Ms. Marshall has two children. “I can’t support a family on that,” she said.
2) Teaching Activities for: ‘A Lynching Memorial Is Opening. The Country Has Never Seen Anything Like It.’
3) The Teachers’ Revolt Spreads to Arizona   … Arizona has such an acute teacher shortage that many schools are already hiring teachers without formal education training, some with only high school diplomas. 

Politico. Third judge rules against Trump move to end DACA

The Hill. The risk of kicking higher ed reauthorization down the road   …HELP Committee Chairman Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), indicated markup of the bill could begin this month. Let’s hope it does.

The 74. How the Push for Preschool Teachers to Earn Costly College Degrees Could Strain a System in Which Wages Are Only Half of K-12 Teachers’

NEW YORK STATE
My Brother’s Keeper.  2018 Symposium for MBK Communities [April 27-28] featured speakers incl: TC Prof. Dr. Yolanda Sealy-Ruiz

NYSATE/NYACTE. CFP Fall Conference Oct. 12-18 [deadline May 15]

NEW YORK CITY
NYC Dept. of Education. WeTeachNYC.  Search the library for lessons, professional learning resources, etc.

Teachers College.
1) Office of Teacher Education (OTE) social media updates OTE Twitter  OTE LinkedIn
2) Teacher Opportunity Corps (TOC) Program. 2018-19 applications now open [deadline Sept. 10]

GLOBAL
FE News [UK]. Secret RoATP application window revealed  Thirty-six teacher training organisations have joined the register of apprenticeship training providers during a secret application window…

Greater Kashmir.  20 NGOs roped in to improve school education, teacher training

Scroll.In. A new training policy proposed to help Indian teachers upgrade their skills may not help much

TES [UK]. New-teacher preparation has gone ‘off the boil’

UNITED STATES
Chronicle of Higher Education. Why Does the Public Distrust Higher Ed? Too Many Women    Except at elite institutions, where the degree is as much about powerful connections as it is about learning, higher education’s value is shrinking as a two-track system develops — one in which women go to college and men get credentials by other means.

edTPA/AACTE.
1) Call For 2018 Conference Proposals [Deadline: June 15]
2) Handbook Improvement Survey
3) New NCTQ Review Offers Mixed Feedback on Graduate Teacher Prep, Alternative Routes

Education Week.
1) Here’s How the Public Views Teachers, Their Salaries, and Their Impact  Second most cited improvement-Improve teacher training
2) South Carolina Spends $500,000 on Ad Campaign to Recruit New Teachers   The state estimates it will need more than 5,000 new teachers each year. In-state teacher-preparation programs graduate about 2,000 candidates a year.
3) The Teaching Force Has Grown Faster Than Student Enrollment—Except in These 4 States

Hechinger Report. Former educators answer call to return to school   At the same time, the number of new college grads with degrees in education has been declining, so many positions are left unstaffed when veteran teachers leave. 

National Association of Graduate-Professional Students. #RewritePROSPER
The PROSPER Act (Higher Education Act):

• Eliminates Grad Plus loans and Perkins loans
• Eliminates Public Service loan Forgiveness
• Caps student loans at $28,500 annually and $150,000 in total
• Eliminates Subsidized Stafford loans
• Eliminates federal work study for graduate students

NYTimes. How Liberty University Built a Billion-Dollar Empire Online  Other students were left simply to flounder, contrary to Falwell’s claims of close attention from distant instructors. Lydia Terry-Dominelli, who lives in a suburb of Albany, N.Y… decided to get her teacher’s certification… struggled further with confusing assignments in another graduate-level education course…

The Atlantic. Why American Students Haven’t Gotten Better at Reading in 20 Years   While some elementary teachers have embraced the approach advocated by the NAEP panel, it’s clear that most have been trained to in methods that aren’t supported by research, and that many are resistant to change.

US Education Dept. FY 2018 Education Innovation and Research (EIR) Competition Announcement: applications for Early-phase, Mid-phase, and Expansion competitions.

Zippia. The Most Disproportionately Common Majors In Each State   Ohio-Teacher Education

NEW YORK STATE
NYSED News. State Education Department Proposes Rule to Allow Individual Evaluation for Certain Teaching Certificate Titles  A Notice of Proposed Rule Making will be published in the State Register on April 25, 2018. Comments on the proposed changes will be accepted through June 25, 2018 and can be submitted by email to <[email protected]>

SUNY Cortland. Teacher Education Program Meets Tough New Accreditation Standards   When the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP) Accreditation Council issues its formal decision in October, SUNY Cortland — home to New York’s largest comprehensive teacher education program — is likely to become one of only eight New York colleges with CAEP’s rigorous seal of approval.

NEW YORK CITY
Chalkbeat. Five boroughs in five days: Follow along with Chancellor Carranza on his inaugural school tours   With interest in teacher preparation programs plummeting, Fariña thought encouraging middle and high school students to explore teaching would help fix the problem. Carranza seemed to share in her excitement about the academy. “My heart is really full,” he said. “We’re generating the next generation of teachers right here in this school.”  

Teachers College.
1) All Things to All People: Preparing teachers – and others – to meet the individual needs of those with developmental disabilities   “We’re not just about one method,” says the ID/Autism Program Director, Laudan Jahromi, Associate Professor of Psychology and Education… And that makes Amanda really perfect for us, because not only does her research align with the goals of this program – that is, preparing professionals to use evidence-based strategies with individuals with disabilities..
2) Center for Innovation in Teacher Education and Development (CITED) conversation Decolonizing Teacher Education: Learning from YPAR & Critical Literacies Wed. April 25
3) #TakeActionTuesday Work-In and Letter Writing: Higher Education Act Tues. April 24, 11:30-1:30 Everett Lounge