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Sawchuk, Stephen – Education Week, 2012
An external panel that includes several prominent critics of teacher education has been tapped to craft the performance standards for the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP), the new organization's leaders announced last week. Among the standards under consideration: how programs ensure that candidates know their content;…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Teacher Certification, Performance, Standards
Maxwell, Lesli A. – Education Week, 2009
After years of talk and stalled efforts, the creation of a national certification program for principals is finally under way, with plans to launch the initiative formally in 2011. The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS)--which is spearheading the venture that will mirror the now 20-year-old advanced-certification program it…
Descriptors: National Standards, Program Effectiveness, Nonprofit Organizations, Teacher Certification
McNeil, Michele – Education Week, 2012
The 12 winners of the federal Race to the Top competition have experienced near-universal challenges in turning their sweeping, multifaceted proposals into reality, among them a limited state capacity to execute fast, dramatic change and deeply rooted teacher-evaluation systems that have proved hard to transform. Reports unveiled by the U.S.…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Audits (Verification), Educational Assessment, Educational Indicators
Sawchuk, Stephen – Education Week, 2011
Federal officials plan to overhaul the reporting requirements for higher education-based teacher preparation in favor of leaner, outcome-based indicators of program quality, according to plans outlined in the president's fiscal 2012 budget request. To bolster the overhaul, the budget also proposes a $185 million new formula grant program, dubbed…
Descriptors: Federal Aid, Federal Legislation, Federal Programs, Accountability
McNeil, Michele – Education Week, 2010
A year ago, Arne Duncan was known as a long-serving urban district chief who had used his collegial management style to push innovation and close failing schools in Chicago. This week, he enters his second year as U.S. secretary of education pursuing a similar national policy agenda that could place him among the most influential leaders in his…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Charter Schools, Private Sector, Elementary Secondary Education
Viadero, Debra – Education Week, 2007
College and university programs that prepare the nation's education researchers suffer from mission muddle, a lack of common and rigorous standards, and inadequate resources, asserts a hard-hitting report set for release. The report is all the more damning because it comes from one of the field's own, Arthur E. Levine, who stepped down in 2005…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Schools of Education, Doctoral Programs, Program Effectiveness
Sack, Joetta L. – Education Week, 2005
When California set out nearly 10 years ago to reduce class sizes in the early grades, educators nationwide looked West with awe and envy at the ambitious move to ease the task of teaching millions of the state's youngest students. In this article, the author examines the effects of California's class-size reduction program. State Superintendent…
Descriptors: Class Size, State Standards, School Restructuring, Achievement Gains
Manzo, Kathleen Kennedy – Education Week, 2005
Little solid evidence is available to gauge whether the federal government's multibillion-dollar Reading First initiative is having an effect on student achievement, but many states are reporting anecdotally that they are seeing benefits for their schools. Among those benefits are extensive professional development in practices deemed to be…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Standardized Tests, Program Effectiveness, Program Termination
Honawar, Vaishali – Education Week, 2006
National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) accredits 623 of the 1,200 traditional university-based teacher-training programs; nearly 100 others are seeking accreditation. The Washington-based group, established in 1954, is a coalition of 33 organizations, including the two national teachers' unions, the American Association of…
Descriptors: Schools of Education, Preservice Teacher Education, Accreditation (Institutions), Academic Standards
Olson, Lynn – Education Week, 2004
This article discusses the increasing number of schools that met all of their 2004 annual achievement targets under U.S. federal law. Over half the states released at least preliminary lists of the number of schools that had made adequate yearly progress under the No Child Left Behind Act, based on 2003-04 test data. In general, the percentage of…
Descriptors: National Standards, Educational Improvement, Federal Legislation, Benchmarking
Viadero, Debra – Education Week, 2004
After nearly two years in development, a new federally backed research service on "what works" in education began rolling its first products off the assembly line. Launched with $18.5 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Education, the newly operational What Works Clearinghouse is the department's electronic version of a "Consumer…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Clearinghouses, Federal Programs, Web Sites