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When teacher layoffs are necessary, districts with thoughtful policies can minimize disruptions to schools and students, especially those facing greater disadvantages.
Apprenticeships offer a promising model to help expand and diversify the teacher workforce. But NCTQ President Heather Peske cautions: We're long on enthusiasm for apprenticeships and short on the details...
New research found measurable differences in teacher quality between different generations of teachers—with Baby Boomers being least effective.
NCTQ's Teacher Quality Bulletin distills the latest education research into clear, actionable information for education leaders. From topics like effective reading instruction to teacher diversity, here are the posts that...
In a new analysis, the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) finds that most states (29 states and the District of Columbia) use a weak elementary teacher reading licensure test,...
Pipelines, incentives, retention strategies, and data tracking lead to greater diversity.
To learn about state priorities in the coming years, NCTQ surveyed education leaders, advocacy groups, and researchers across the country.
Do state leaders suffer from a lack of strategy? To really connect the dots and make an impact, states need to simultaneously prioritize teacher quality and learning outcomes.
How popular of a career choice is teaching? New data analysis shows trends in teacher prep program enrollment and completion.
Despite robust research that shows that teachers of color increase positive academic, social-emotional, and behavioral outcomes for all students, particularly students of color, new data and analysis from the National...
Little is know about paraprofessionals in the classroom, but a recent study in Washington sheds some much-needed light on these important players.
As states quicklyshifted requirements for teacher licensure in the early days of the pandemic,some also saw an opportunity to learn from the responses they put in place.
Several school district leaders shared how they've accomplished recent gains in building a more diverse teacher workforce.
An analysis of layoff policies in 148 of the largest U.S. school districts explores how they may impact the teacher workforce and the student population
New research digs deeper into the well-documented positive impact that Black teachers have on students' academic and life outcomes.
The most-read Teacher Quality Bulletin posts of 2022 reflect the questions, overturned assumptions, and trade-offs that face education leaders.
A new RAND Corporation survey asked teachers what would be the most effective strategies to recruit and retain more teachers of color.
New research finds that paraprofessional support, time, caseload, resources, and professional development all play major factors in retention.
Beyond the important areas outlined in the Secretary's remarks, we see two big challenges to the goal of access and equity to quality teachers that have yet to be addressed.
Who wants someone who has not demonstrated their knowledge and skills to be trusted with landing the plane? Teaching is no different.
These states' efforts illustrate multiple approaches to help aspiring teachers to mitigate the cost burden of testing fees.
Insights on what school districts can do to ensure every classroom is staffed with an effective teacher.
Building a more diverse teacher workforce is essential to addressing educational inequity for students of color. In this analysis, NCTQ considers teacher licensure test pass rate data through the lenses...
New research adds important findings on the positive effects of teachers of color on the academic and life outcomes of students.
A look at the role that the quality and character of school life plays in teacher success and retention.
It's high time to implement specific and strategic policies to address teacher shortages.
Few areas of teacher policy have received as much overdue attention over the past few years as teacher diversity.
NCTQ President Kate Walsh hosts a panel discussion on how the edTPA affects the teaching profession with leading researchers in the field of educator preparation.
Our nation's educators and students are exhausted and embattled, but not beaten.
A round-up of NCTQ's most-read District Trendline blog posts from 2021.
A new working paper adds additional insight into the important question of how race impacts teacher hiring decisions.
For Black teachers, discussing important issues such as the Capitol Insurrection or Black Lives Matter Movement in a safe and meaningful way with students can be difficult, but is possible...
The NCTQ publication of long-hidden data on institutional pass rates for elementary content teacher licensure tests serves as a compass, pointing toward strengths and opportunities in preparing aspiring elementary teachers...
Information gleaned from licensure tests can offer a compass, guiding efforts to strengthen and diversify the teacher workforce.
Strengthening our teacher workforce begins with better, more transparent data.
New research on implicit racial bias in schools and its effect on student achievement.
A new study out of Chicago has garnered a lot of attention for finding that Black teachers were significantly more likely to receive low classroom observation scores as compared to...
Many efforts to increase diversity focus on getting more teachers of color to the door of the classroom, with too little attention to what comes after.
To cultivate the type of learning environment that would support and sustain candidates of color there are three areas to consider: community, curriculum, and communication.
A new tool designed to help districts identify sources of academically strong, diverse teacher candidates and better target recruitment efforts.
Black and Hispanic college students don't enter teaching at the same rate as white students, but new trends indicate some upward movement.
No longer is it appropriate to decouple the goal of improving teacher quality from parallel efforts to increase the number of Black and Hispanic teachers. What's left to argue about...
New data from NCTQ examines the interplay between racial diversity and admissions standards in teacher preparation programs. We present strong evidence that these two considerations need not be competing goals,...
While it may still feel like the 273rd day of March, we're really truly nearing the end of December, and the year 2020.
Are teacher licensing tests a milestone to achieve or an obstacle to be removed?
The path to becoming anti-racist is long, challenging, and for teachers, essential. Tackling one's mindset and implicit biases takes hard work, and even trainings intended to help people do this...
A new study finds that the presence of Black teachers in advanced track courses produces a higher probability of Black students in that school not just enrolling, but passing advanced...
In A Fair Chance: Simple steps to strengthen and diversify the teacher workforce, NCTQ analysis reveals both astonishingly high numbers of elementary teacher candidates failing their professional licensing tests each...
A new study confirms, yet again, the positive benefits of students of color having a teacher of the same race.
Ever play the carnival game of whack-a-mole? Every time you smash one mole back into its hole, two more pop back up. That's how NCTQ's analysts feel right now with...
The National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ)'s analyses of states' plans for ensuring that low-income and minority students are not disproportionately taught by ineffective, out-of-field, or inexperienced teachers under the...
There has been substantial media attention recently regarding states' Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) plans, much of which has focused on states' efforts to meet ESSA's accountability requirements. Here at...
Today, the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) released its analyses of educator equity in the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) state plans of 16 states and the District of...
NCTQ has reviewed all 17 currently released state plans to implement ESSA.On June 8th, NCTQ will release analyses of each state plan's work to meet ESSA'seducator equity requirements. NCTQ will...
Today, New York's State Board of Regents is considering doing away with a recentlyadopted licensing test for teacher candidates, amid concerns that the too many blackand Latino teacher candidates fail...
One feature of an ideal school environment, webelieve, is that both students and their teachers reflect America in all of itsdiversity. Everyone, including children coming from privilege, benefits from adiverse...
A study released today by the Brookings Institution shows that achieving genuine racial parity between public school teachers, whose minority representation constitutes 18 percent of the workforce, and public school...
Public schools are suffering from a well-publicized diversity problem. Students of color make up nearly half of all public school students, yet teachers of color comprise just 18 percent of...
We've known for years that students of color are underrepresented in gifted education programs across the country.
We can all agree that building a more diverse corps of teachers is important. While only a few studies have examined the role of teacher diversity in student achievement, there's...