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Let’s Stop Asking Whether Teachers Are Professionals. Let’s Ask What Kinds of Professionals We Want Teachers to Be

Policy Brief

Emilie Mitescu Reagan and A. Lin Goodwin

March 11, 2025

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NEPC Review: “So Hard, But So Rewarding:” How School System Leaders Are Scaling Up Strategic School Staffing Models (Center on Reinventing Public Education, March 2024)

NEPC Review

Elizabeth Stringer Keefe

July 11, 2024

The Potential of Teacher Residencies to Help Recruit and Retain Black Teachers

Newsletter

February 8, 2024

NEPC Review: Teacher Prep Review: Strengthening Elementary Reading Instruction (National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ), June 2023)

NEPC Review

P.L. Thomas

September 19, 2023

NEPC Review: The Effects of High-Performing, High-Turnover Teachers on Long-Run Student Achievement: Evidence From Teach for America (Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, November 2022)

NEPC Review

Emilie Mitescu Reagan

March 15, 2023

Five Charts That Show How Partisan Strife Is Impacting Public Schools

Newsletter

December 6, 2022

How Charter Schools May Be Exacerbating the Teacher Shortage

Newsletter

November 1, 2022

Preparing Tech-Savvy Teachers

Newsletter

October 27, 2022

Nine Ways to Hold Teacher Prep Programs Accountable for Equity

Newsletter

September 22, 2022

NEPC Review: Addressing Teacher Shortages: Practical Ideas for the Pandemic and Beyond (TNTP, February 2022)

NEPC Review

Ed Fuller

May 24, 2022

"Grow Your Own" Programs: Examining Potential and Pitfalls for a New Generation of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color Community Teachers

Policy Brief

Conra D. Gist

May 19, 2022

Can I Really Trust That Evaluation of My Teacher Prep Program?

Newsletter

August 19, 2021

Five Myths About Teaching

Newsletter

May 4, 2021

NEPC Review: Harnessing Micro-Credentials for Teacher Growth (New America, January 2021)

NEPC Review

Elena Aydarova

April 8, 2021

NEPC Review: 2020 Teacher Prep Review: Clinical Practice and Classroom Management (National Council on Teacher Quality, October 2020)

NEPC Review

Jamy Stillman and Katherine Schultz

March 16, 2021

NEPC Review: Language Counts: Supporting Early Math Development for Dual Language Learners (Bellwether Education Partners, October 2020)

NEPC Review

Sylvia Celedón-Pattichis

March 2, 2021

Education Interview of the Month: Christopher Saldaña Interviews Kevin Kumashiro About Education Deans for Justice and Equity Alliance

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Christopher Saldaña and Kevin K. Kumashiro

November 21, 2019

Seven Trends to Reform U.S. Teacher Education, and the Need to Address Systemic Injustices

FYI

Education Deans for Justice and Equity

October 10, 2019

Teacher Education and Deeper Learning. These Seven Schools are Doing it Right

Newsletter

October 3, 2019

Review Identifies Flaws in High-Profile “Gold Standard” Study Used to Market TFA

Newsletter

May 23, 2019

Reviews Worth Sharing: The Effectiveness of Secondary Math Teachers from Teach for America and the Teaching Fellows Programs (Institute of Education Sciences, September 2013)

Reviews Worth Sharing

Andrew Brantlinger and Matthew Griffin

May 23, 2019

NEPC Review: The Opportunity Myth (TNTP, September 2018)

NEPC Review

Amanda Datnow

January 24, 2019

What Do We Know About Teacher Quality?

Newsletter

July 26, 2018

NEPC Review: 2018 Teacher Prep Review (National Council on Teacher Quality, April 2018)

NEPC Review

Marilyn Cochran-Smith, Elizabeth Stringer Keefe, Wen-Chia Chang, and Molly Cummings Carney

June 12, 2018

NEPC Review: 2018 State Teacher Policy Best Practices Guide (National Council on Teacher Quality, March 2018)

NEPC Review

Marilyn Cochran-Smith, Elizabeth Stringer Keefe, Wen-Chia Chang, and Molly Cummings Carney

May 24, 2018

Education Interview of the Month: Greg Smith Interviews Michael Barbour and Bryan Mann on Virtual Schools

FYI

Gregory A. Smith, Michael K. Barbour, and Bryan Mann

May 17, 2018

NEPC Review: It Takes a Community (Bellwether Education Partners, February 2018)

NEPC Review

Adam Winsler

May 8, 2018

NEPC Review: When Degree Programs for Pre-K Teachers Go Online: Challenges and Opportunities (New America Foundation, November 2017)

NEPC Review

Beth Graue and Erica Ramberg

January 18, 2018

NEPC Review: Tackling Gaps in Access to Strong Teachers: What State Leaders Can Do (The Education Trust, October 2017)

NEPC Review

Doris A. Santoro

November 28, 2017

Education Interview of the Month: Greg Smith Interviews Ken Zeichner on Independent Teacher Prep Programs

Podcasts

Gregory A. Smith and Kenneth M. Zeichner

November 14, 2017

Our Children Deserve Better: A Call to Resist Washington’s Dangerous Vision for U.S. Education

FYI

Education Deans for Justice and Equity

September 6, 2017

NEPC Review: A New Agenda: Research to Build a Better Teacher Preparation Program (Bellwether Education Partners, October 2016)

NEPC Review

Marilyn Cochran-Smith, Stephani Burton, Molly Cummings Carney, Juan Gabriel Sánchez, and Andrew F. Miller

March 28, 2017

Review of Within Our Grasp: Achieving Higher Admissions Standards in Teacher Prep

NEPC Review

Marilyn Cochran-Smith, Megina Baker, Wen-Chia Chang, M. Beatriz Fernández, and Elizabeth Stringer Keefe

March 23, 2017

Declaration of Principles on Public Education, Democracy, and the Role of Federal Government

FYI

Education Deans for Justice and Equity

January 13, 2017

Independent Teacher Education Programs: Apocryphal Claims, Illusory Evidence

Policy Brief

Kenneth M. Zeichner

September 8, 2016

Research-Based Options for Education Policymaking - 2016 Collection

Policy Brief

William J. Mathis

August 23, 2016

NEPC Review: Learning about Learning: What Every New Teacher Needs to Know (National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ), January 2016)

NEPC Review

P.L. Thomas and Christian Z. Goering

March 22, 2016

Holding Teacher Preparation Accountable: A Review of Claims and Evidence

Policy Brief

Marilyn Cochran-Smith, Rebecca Stern, Juan Gabriel Sánchez, Andrew F. Miller, Elizabeth Stringer Keefe, M. Beatriz Fernández, Wen-Chia Chang, Molly Cummings Carney, Stephani Burton, and Megina Baker

March 16, 2016

NEPC Review: Smart, Skilled, and Striving: Transforming and Elevating the Teaching Profession (Center for American Progress, November 2015)

NEPC Review

Elizabeth J. Meyer

January 7, 2016

NEPC Review: The Mirage: Confronting the Hard Truth About Our Quest for Teacher Development (TNTP, August 2015)

NEPC Review

Heather C. Hill

September 30, 2015

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