Looking For Those Multiple Measures
Running in Place highlights the paradox of the ineffective "effective" teacher—one who fails to impact student achievement but remains eligible...
Switching it up isn’t always a good thing
Rather than looking for the next big reform to improve teacher quality, a new study considers whether it's time for...
Sorting it out: What’s behind teacher tracking and sorting between and within schools
Some students are more apt to be assigned better or more experienced teachers than other students. That's not news. Past studies have...
April 2015: Transfers and Excessing
April's Trendline is all about transfers and excessing, highlighting how districts prioritize transfers and how they decide where to place...
March 2015: Teacher Evaluations
For this month's Trendline, we closely examine teacher evaluation policies in the largest districts across the country. Specifically, we take...
February 2015: Health insurance premiums
With health insurance coverage making headlines in both national and local news, this month's Trendline examines health insurance premiums for...
January 2015: Layoffs
Our Trendline series kicks off 2015 with a look at teacher layoff policies in the largest districts across the country.
To use VAM or not to use VAM?
The use of value-added models (VAM) to evaluate teachers and schools has never been short on critics, but this year the opposition...
December 2014: Recap of 2014 Teacher Trendlines
As the year draws to a close, we look back on the most talked about Teacher Trendlines from 2014. We...
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October 2014: Teacher Leave
October's Teacher Trendline focuses on teacher leave. We take a close look at sick and personal leave, as well as...
September 2014: Substitute teachers
As teachers and students settle into the new school year, we turn our attention to a group of teachers who...
August 2014: Student and teacher school year
It's back-to-school time for districts across the country, and there's no doubt many families have spent some time examining this...
July 2014: Teacher Tenure
This month's Trendline takes a close look at how districts in the NCTQ Teacher Contract Database are currently implementing key...
June 2014: Student enrollment
In this month's Trendline, we examine districts with the most dramatic changes in student enrollment within the 50 largest districts...
Wanted: Capable candidates who know their stuff
When alternative certification programs first got started, the theory was that ed schools were driving away the very people who could make...
Taking roll on teacher attendance
It may be uncomfortable to talk about, but the fact remains: teacher attendance matters.
April 2014: Teacher excessing and placement
Read about the latest trends when it comes to how teachers are excessed and how excessed teachers are placed in...
March 2014: Teacher Salaries and Housing Affordability
We're excited to bring back the Trendline series with one of our most popular topics: teacher salaries.
Portland Avoids Teachers Strike
After 10 months of negotiations, the city's district and teachers union reached a conceptual agreement just two days before...