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The Value Our Teachers Add 10 May 2013 | 09:10 pm
High-stakes tests and testing policies are now being reinforced with value-added teacher assessment. But gains in tests scores from one year to the next are not the only value that teachers add. Forty...
The Dirty Dozen: How Charter Schools Influence Student Enrollment 22 Apr 2013 | 10:04 pm
This commentary offers a classification of twelve different approaches that charter schools use to structure their student enrollment. These practices impact the likelihood of students enrolling with ...
Resistance Is Futile! — Or Is It? Contemplating an End to Our National Obsession with Tests, One Teacher Candidate at a Time 12 Apr 2013 | 07:33 pm
The continued negative influence of standardized testing as the primary mechanism of accountability authorized by the No Child Left Behind Act is having a disastrous impact on teaching and learning in...
Career Pathways: A Strategy to Increase Black and Latino Four-Year Graduation Rates 5 Apr 2013 | 07:22 pm
This commentary highlights findings from a study recently completed comparing minority graduation rates of NYC-area Catholic colleges and public universities. The authors argue that the reason why the...
A White Sports Coat and a Pink Carnation 29 Mar 2013 | 07:15 pm
Protecting the Legal Rights of LGBT Students to Attend the Prom
Addressing Multilingualism in Construction Workplace Education: Results of a Pilot Experiment 24 Jan 2013 | 04:27 pm
In the United States, foreign-born workers of Hispanic origin have been central to the construction industry for decades. Many of these workers have experienced only limited education in either Englis...
PLCs and the Common Core: Are We Leaving Instruction Behind? 18 Jan 2013 | 08:43 pm
The Common Core State Standards have potential to improve student learning but are arriving with a questionable assumption: common standards plus increasing accountability pressures will translate int...
NSSE Yearbooks for 2013 1 Jan 2013 | 02:29 am
The editors of the Teachers College Record are pleased to announce the NSSE Yearbooks for 2013.
Reviewers for 2012 1 Jan 2013 | 02:06 am
A list of reviewers for papers appearing in 2012.
The Rhetoric of Reform 14 Dec 2012 | 06:55 pm
This piece explores the use of rhetoric in educational policy making, particularly examining the influence of current reform rhetoric on public perception.
