This 2013 document is an update of one published by the Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators (AMTE) in 2009. This version includes alignment with the recommendations in the Mathematics Education of Teachers II and content to implement Common Core State Standards – Mathematics. The Standards describe elementary mathematics specialists, explains why they are important, and […]
Preparing Teachers: Building Evidence for Sound Policy
The National Research Council (NRC) was asked by the U.S. Department of Education Institute of Education Sciences to conduct this consensus report in response to a mandate from Congress to assemble all available information on key questions related to teacher preparation to guide future policy decisions. NRC established the Committee on the Study of Teacher […]
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Teacher Preparation Programs for Support and Accountability
This policy brief provides an overview of how teacher preparation programs are evaluated for the purposes of accountability and support. It describes efforts to change teacher preparation program evaluation by the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE), Council for the Accreditation of Education Preparation (CAEP), and National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ). […]
Bugs in the System
This report by the Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) provides an overview of the landscape of K-12 Computer Science (CS) education and teacher certification. The report builds on the 2008 effort by the CSTA Task Force that detailed the state of CS teacher certification and licensure. This report […]
100Kin10 Annual Partner Survey
In this report, the non-profit organization 100Kin10 presents findings from its survey of 165 100Kin10 partner organizations. The report highlights the best practices, challenges, and trends reported by collaborators who support STEM teachers. The survey was administered by 100Kin10 and data analyzed with support from the American Institutes for Research (AIR). Six surveys were developed, […]
