Teacher Preparation
Teacher training programs are facing profound challenges. Enrollment in traditional programs is down while alternative routes to the classroom proliferate. Amidst a growing call for raising the quality of the U.S. teaching force, The Hechinger Report is examining whether teachers are being adequately prepared.
TEACHER VOICE: Is the cost of student-teaching worth it?
'The financial downside was crushing'
Switching sides in the teacher wars
In Rhode Island, Deborah Gist was an education reformer pushing school accountability. Then she came to Oklahoma, where the biggest challenge is getting schools the basics.
OPINION: Hometown teachers more likely to ‘stay in school’
The community ties that bind education
COLUMN: Remembering former NYC Schools Chancellor Harold Levy: A champion for children and a real mensch
Levy did many things in life, but most loved being chancellor
COLUMN: The future includes good (human) teachers
Some things just can’t be automated, and a teacher who makes you think is one of them
TEACHER VOICE: Helping underserved students in Jamaica to learn, while learning a few lessons of my own
Four teaching tips from overseas
TEACHER VOICE: ‘I was quickly overwhelmed’ — The case for mentoring new instructors
How strong statewide programs could help
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Nine educators on what it means to work in education in the age of mass shootings and widespread gun violence
OPINION: Confessions of a white teacher in an urban school
‘I hadn’t a clue’ — What I learned the hard way my rookie year
TEACHER VOICE: A summer in a science lab taught me the importance of hands-on learning
Creating more ‘eureka moments’ in the classroom