Cross-posted at Education Week. About a year ago, I gave my blog readers an interim report on a very large international comparative study of teacher quality that our Center on International Education Benchmarking had funded a global team of scholars headed by Linda Darling-Hammond to do. ...
by Bob Rothman A new analysis of the Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS) has found that the quality of school leadership is related to the development of professional learning communities in schools. Schools in which principals focus on curriculum and instruction and in which they...
Cross-posted at Education Week. Buried in last week's blog—an open letter to Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan—I remarked on the unscalability of certain education initiatives praised by Checker Finn as "charter-like." One of them was New Leaders. After it was published, I received the following statement...
by Jennifer Craw and Nathan Driskell The best teacher training programs offer not only high-quality pedagogy and content courses to future teachers, but also extensive practical experience in the classroom both observing and teaching under the guidance of experienced teachers.[1] Below we look at minimum...
by Seng-Dao Keo School leaders are a driving force for improving teaching and learning outcomes in the highest performing systems in the world. In this month’s Global Perspective, we explore how school leaders are recruited, prepared, developed, and utilized in a number of education systems that...
by Jennifer Craw and Jackie Kraemer This month’s Top of the Class focuses on school leadership and the important role it plays in helping top-performing education systems deliver world-leading results. The Statistic of the Month explores what qualifications a sampling of top performing systems...
Cross-posted at Education Week In my last blog post, I described our National Institute for School Leadership and its very successful principal training program. And then I said that we are about to introduce a new perspective into the content of that program, content that will...
Cross-posted from Education Week Yes, illogic is a word, which my dictionary defines as the "quality of lacking logic." Let me count the ways. Not so long ago, the critics derided school administrators for failing to evaluate their teachers. The research, they said, made it abundantly plain...
By Marc Tucker I have not, until now, used this space to talk about a program run by NCEE, the organizational sponsor of this newsletter. But I am doing just that in this Tucker’s Lens. I have the sense that there is a growing realization around...