Education Law Center’s Flawed Plan for Newark Schools’ Transition to Local Control
August 5, 2015Chris Cerf Goes to Newark
August 6, 2015TNTP’s Major Findings in new report, “Confronting the Hard Truth About our Quest for Teacher Development”
- Districts are making a massive investment in teacher improvement—far larger than most people realize. We estimate that the districts we studied spend an average of nearly $18,000 per teacher, per year on development efforts.
- Despite these efforts, most teachers do not appear to improve substantially from year to year—even though many have not yet mastered critical skills.
- Even when teachers do improve, we were unable to link their growth to any particular development strategy.
- School systems are not helping teachers understand how to improve—or even that they have room to improve at all.
Read the full report here.
