What It Is
Next to family, a teacher is the most important factor in the education of a child and can mitigate even the worst disadvantages. Efforts to ensure that teachers are paid, rewarded, evaluated and treated professionally are numerous and varied.
Performance pay, or merit-based pay, rewards teachers based on their performance in the classroom and not just on seniority, which is currently the norm. True merit pay is not a system of bonuses, but rather a method of linking educators’ pay directly to student performance. These policies are designed to increase individual accountability by linking compensation and job security directly to operational and academic outcomes.
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Teach.com is a comprehensive educational web resource dedicated to discovering, discussing and encouraging great teaching around the world. Like certificationmap.com, Teach.com also provides a map outlining the steps to become a teacher, including information on teacher salaries, teacher preparation and certification requirements for all 50 states as well as information on teaching abroad. The site also profiles great [...]
A new report is out from the National Center for Teacher Quality that gives substance to a common critique of the way state education agencies balance their checkbooks.
The forum is the place to go if you want to explore strategies and solutions that transform schools into schools of character. CEP is offering scholarships to DC-area educators who want to attend.
While some worry about Rocketship's sustainability in the long-haul, the schools' results are promising so far as students are among top performers on standardized tests.
Indiana, Louisiana, and Florida are the top three states in a new report that analyzes and rates states' teacher evaluation policies.
The latest findings from the Strategic Data Project underscore what we already know about teachers and placement from other research; young teachers tend to be put in lower-performing schools, and the retention of effective novice teachers could be better.
What We Believe
Next to a parent, a teacher is the most important influence in a child’s life, and, thus, ensuring the quality of every educator that comes in contact with our kids is essential. To that end, we believe in the implementation of strong, data-driven, performance-based accountability systems that ensure teachers are rewarded, retained and advanced based on how they perform in adding value to the students who they teach, measured predominantly by student achievement, along with skills and responsibilities. There must be consequences for teachers who are not successful in educating students, no matter how noble or caring they may be.