Initial Teacher Education Partnership: Bureaucracy, Policy, and Professional Agency

Teacher heterogeneity , value added and education policy ∗

This study examines the theoretical and practical implications of ranking teachers with a one-dimensional metric when teacher effectiveness varies across subjects or student types. We document the empirical failure of standard value-added assumptions of teacher input homogeneity, but demonstrate that previously suggested teacher firing policies still improve student welfare, although they resul...

Policy Brief THE STATE ROLE IN TEACHER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND EDUCATION THROUGHOUT TEACHERS’ CAREERS

Professional development and teacher education policies have the potential to greatly affect teachers’ abilities to teach and, as a result, students’ abilities to learn. States can play varied roles in the provision of teacher education and professional development. This policy brief summarizes states’ policy approaches to teacher professional development and education throughout teachers’ care...

Theorising Practice in Initial Teacher Education

The Failure of Education Policy in Israel: Politics vs. Bureaucracy

VIC06146 Partnership in teacher education: historical perspectives on recent rhetoric

'Partnerships' has become a key term in teacher education discourse. Partnerships between universities and schools, have come to function as a strategic and rhetorical lynchpin in proposals for reform, signifying potential for success in contrast to the failures of the past. This paper seeks to inject a note of caution about such claims with regards to both their capacity to sustain strategic m...