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| Accountability in Education |
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All Things PLC
One stop info center for Professional Learning Communities with strategies, resources, and more. |
What Is a "Professional Learning Community"?
Great article that reviews the nuts and bolts of Professional Learning Communities. |
Common Formative Assessments
Teacher concerns about common assessments. |
Wake Up Call
Teacher leaders hear the
warning and develop
common assessments to improve student achievement |
New rules require states, schools to reduce dropouts
One in four students quits high school, a grim rate that will have to improve under new federal rules. |
New Rules Aimed at Highlighting, Improving Low Graduation Rates
New federal rules made final yesterday will tighten enforcement of the No Child Left Behind law, including requiring schools nationwide to use a single formula to calculate high school graduation rates. |
Evaluating Teachers In New York City
Educators have long argued that standardized testing is a poor way to evaluate student knowledge. They also disagree over whether test scores are the best way to evaluate teachers. In New York City schools, a surprising compromise allows some of that data to be used. |
Performance-Pay Plans Leave Teachers Divided
Many of the nation's school districts are pondering new ways to raise pay and improve teacher performance. But in Denver and Washington, D.C., "performance-pay" proposals are the subject of debate among teachers. |
Chancellor Shakes D.C. Schools With Aggressive Reform
Michelle Rhee is chancellor of public schools in Washington, D.C. She explains her efforts to reform notoriously low performing schools in the nation's capitol, which has meant making some tough choices, like firing 36 school principals. |
National Center for Education Accountability
Based in Austin, the center's mission is to promote higher student achievement by: improving state data collection to improve decisionmaking; using data to improve schools by creating the JFTK School Reports to focus communities on the potential of every school; conducting research on school improvement issues and assisting in the evaluation of effective strategies; and identifying practices that distinguish consistently high-performing schools from other schools and publishing the findings. Current ECS activities in support of the center's work..... |
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| What About Teacher Retention? |
Teacher Retention in California's K-12 Public Schools
In 2007, the Center for Teacher Quality completed a comprehensive study of teacher retention in California's public schools. The findings and recommendations from this study, authored by Dr. Ken Futernick, appear in a report titled, A Possible Dream: Retaining California Teachers So All Students Learn. |
Teacher Retention a Critical National Problem
It is a commonly known that 50% of the new teachers leave the profession within the first five years of teaching. In addition, young people studying to be teachers rarely know if they will succeed as a teacher. There has been no effective way of predicting whether or not one individual will be successful in teaching and will remain a teacher for an entire lifetime. |
High-performing cultures increase teacher retention
Our inability to support high-quality teaching in many of our schools is driven not by too few teachers coming in, but by too many going out, that is, by staggering teacher turnover and attrition rate," a rate that is much higher than in other occupations, the National Commission on Teaching & America's Future (NCTAF) says in its latest report, No Dream Denied: A Pledge to America's Children. " |
A Community Action Guide
Each school day, millions of children attending public schools across the nation are taught by caring, competent, knowledgeable teachers. |
Using Data to Improve Education
a national, collaborative effort to encourage and support state policymakers to improve the collection, availability and use of high-quality education data and to implement state longitudinal data systems to improve student achievement. |
Teacher Retention
The turnover rate among teachers is significantly higher than for other occupations. The fact is, an alarming and unsustainable number of teachers are leaving
teaching during their first few years of teaching. The No Child Left Behind Act has stimulated a national effort to find highly qualified teachers for every classroom. But no teacher supply strategy will ever keep our classrooms staffed with quality teachers if we do not reverse the debilitating rate of teacher attrition. As we explore the numbers and the statistics, it is important to recognize that the teacher retention problem crosses all communities and all sectors of education |
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Benefits of K-12 Education
If all students in the class of 2006 had graduated on time, the nation's
economy would have gained an additional $309 billion in income over their
lifetimes, concludes a report by the Washington-based Alliance for Excellent
Education.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, high school graduates in 2004 earned
almost $10,000 more than those who did not graduate from high school. Also,
dropouts are more likely to be unemployed, go to prison, and seek government
assistance-all factors that drain the economy.
Feb. 2, 2007 http://www.edweek.org |
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