Category: Teacher Quality
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How to Retain Teacher Talent in the District of Columbia
FutureEd Director Thomas Toch presented written testimony to the Council of the District of Columbia on December 8, 2023, addressing principal and teacher retention in the District of Columbia public education sector.
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Smart Strategies for Tackling Teacher Shortages
This piece orginally appeared in The New York Times on October 6, 2022.
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How Troubled Pension Systems are Hurting the Teaching Profession
Flawed teacher pension systems are hurting teachers and undermining their profession.
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The Pandemic Spawns New School Staffing Models
The pandemic was mostly an instructional disaster. But some innovative new ways to staff public schools emerged from the morass.
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How To Address Teacher Attrition
FutureEd Director Thomas Toch testified before the District of Columbia City Council on Dec. 4 about principal and teacher retention in the public schools in the nation’s capital.
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How D.C. Schools Are Revolutionizing Teaching
D.C.’s traditional public schools, once among the nation’s worst, have become magnets for some of America’s best educators.
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How Obama Got Schooled
Under pressure from right and left, the president signed away hard-won federal power over K-12 education and gutted his own reforms, even as they were working.
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A New Era in the Battle Over Teacher Evaluations
The Obama administration encouraged more robust ways of assessing which educators were doing a good job. Will its legacy last?
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Producing the Smartest Kids in the World
Other countries’ schools outperform ours by following a philosophy that is—or ought to be—very American: innate talent is less important than sheer drive.
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Gates on Teacher Evaluation
The final report of the Gates Foundation’s $45-million study of teacher evaluation make the case for a comprehensive approach to gauging teacher qualilty.