Attracting additional teachers and preparing them to be truly excellent is arguably the single biggest lever policymakers can use to demonstrate their commitment to high-quality public schools. Credit ...

Teachers are not coming out of the nation's colleges of education ready, according to a study released Tuesday by U.S.News & World Report and the National Council on Teacher Quality. The U.S. spends ...

Education groups led by the nation’s main membership organization for teacher colleges are calling for a large congressional investment in overhauling and rebuilding federal support for ...

A new report from the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) finds that only one in eight elementary teacher preparation programs nationwide devote enough time to teaching fundamental math content ...

Few elementary education programs give future teachers enough exposure to foundational math concepts, like number sense and algebraic reasoning, before they reach the classroom. That’s the upshot of a ...

Three of Maine’s public universities received failing grades in 2023 for one of the most critical things they do: prepare future educators to teach kids how to read. The National Council on Teacher ...

America’s education system is facing a crisis that threatens to undermine the future of millions of students: a severe and growing teacher shortage. This issue, simmering for years, has reached a ...

Keene State College’s Undergraduate Elementary Teacher Preparation Program was named among the top in the country for contributing to greater teacher diversity by the National Council on Teacher ...

California has spent more than $1 billion since 2018 on programs to aid in the recruitment and retention of TK-12 teachers. It must continue to make those investments if it wants to end the persistent ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The National Council on Teacher Quality rated three Maine universities poorly in 2023 for how they prepared educators to teach ...