Produced in collaboration with the Pew Charitable Trusts, Education Week's fourth annual 50-state report card on public education focuses on efforts by states to recruit, screen, and retain competent teachers. It concludes that, "based on the most exhaustive survey of state teacher policies to date," the enforcement of professional standards and the provision of additional training and support to...
The National Academy Press has made available the first interim report of the NRC's Committee on Assessment and Teacher Quality. This report reaches five conclusions about the current efforts of many states to test teachers as part of their licensing requirements. In general, the report finds these test minimally effective in assessing or predicting a teacher's success in the classroom. Moreover,...