Methodology
Each year, the National Center on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) puts out the State Teacher Policy Yearbook, which provides detailed analysis and a state grade of every state policy that impacts the teaching profession. The Yearbook is a 52-volume encyclopedia produced every other year, measuring states’ policies against a realistic blueprint for reform.
Teacher Quality
Based in Washington, D.C., the National Council on Teacher Quality was founded in 2000 to provide an alternative national voice to existing teacher organizations, and build the case for a comprehensive reform agenda that would challenge the current structure and regulation of the profession. NCTQ tracks and analyzes states’ teacher policies, including key areas such as teacher preparation, evaluation, alternative certification and compensation, and offers recommendations for policy improvements to help advance teacher quality throughout the country. The State Teacher Policy Yearbook provides detailed analysis of any and every state policy that impacts the teaching profession, measuring states’ policies against a realistic blueprint for reform.