Last week, the Northwest Evaluation Association, in cooperation with Grunwald Associates, released a new report, Make Assessment Matter. The report follows up on a study done by the group 2…
Last week, I participated in a summit at Lock Haven University in Pennsylvania on implementing and preparing for the Pennsylvania Core Standards. In attendance were the institution’s president and vice…
The College of Education at the University of Florida last week announced the launch of a new center on “Collaboration for Effective Educator Development, Accountability, and Reform”—also known as the…
Last week’s conference of the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP) drew some 1,100 educators to Nashville, Tennessee, to learn more about the new accreditation system. Offering workshops…
…standards. A majority of respondents cited access to CCSS-aligned lesson plans and rubrics as the number-one resource they needed. Starting next week, AACTE and Achieve will offer a month-long webinar…
…of the alignment efforts, CDE is inviting stakeholders to participate in a series of focus group meetings this month. The focus groups will meet during the weeks of October 6…
The call to “take charge of change” drew nearly 1,900 of you to Indianapolis last week for an exciting professional experience at AACTE’s 66th Annual Meeting. Videos of the general…
Last week, President Obama signed an omnibus spending bill funding the government through the end of the fiscal year. This $1.1 trillion plan restores approximately two thirds ($1.6 billion) of…
…states, which was featured in Education Week, shows that the impact of federal, state, and local budget cuts on special education is most evident in an increase in caseload, class…
As AACTE’s Mary Harrill-McClellan alerted members last week, the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) released its latest critique of university-based teacher preparation today, Training Our Future Teachers: Classroom Management….
…students, and Idaho has adopted online teaching standards. Last week’s webinar highlighted the corresponding need for teacher preparation programs to provide preservice teachers with strategies for online pedagogy, instructional design…
…leaders, and to share findings and resources from its longstanding investment in improving school leader quality. In fact, just this week it released a new tool to help districts’ central…
…the best elements of AACTE’s former weekly NewsStream service and monthly Advisor newsletter in one convenient, up-to-date site, Ed Prep Matters is your new trusted source for professional information—without the…
…York Times Best Seller list. In addition to blogging at Education Week, Politico.com, and The Huffington Post, Ravitch also runs her own widely read blog at dianeravitch.net. Drawing on over…
…the end Republicans agreed to a bill that looked almost identical to what they had rejected three weeks earlier: a debt-limit increase until February 7 and an extension of federal…
