Lame-duck watch: Teacher evaluation bills aim to improve performance
Lame-duck watch: Teacher evaluation bills aim to improve performanceBy Chastity Pratt Dawsey, Bridge MagazineIt's been a long haul for…
Lame Duck Preview Edition
As part of our mission to provide nonpartisan data, analysis and expertise about Michigan education, The Education Trust-Midwest will…
Easy Math: Great Teachers + Better Feedback = More Prepared Students
Easy Math: Great Teachers + Better Feedback = More Prepared StudentsThe importance and impact of teachers cannot be overstated…
Teaching Effectiveness
Teaching quality is our most powerful lever to improve student learning. Of all the things that schools can control…
Now is the Time to Improve Teaching Quality
Now is the Time to Improve Teaching QualityDecades of research tells us that the quality of the classroom teacher…
Stalled to Soaring: Michigan’s Path to Educational Recovery
State of Michigan Education report — “Stalled to Soaring: Michigan’s Path to Educational Recovery” — is the result of…
NEW REPORT: Our schools need help to better support and evaluate Michigan teachers
ROYAL OAK, Mich. - Michigan teachers are our education system’s most valuable asset. And yet as a state, we’ve…
NEW REPORT: Giving Michigan teachers the support they deserve
ROYAL OAK, Mich. (September 20, 2012) - Teachers, like all hard-working professionals, want to get better.Last year, for the…
Strengthening Michigan’s Teaching Force
Michigan teachers have one of the most important roles in our state’s and children’s future. Yet as a state,…
Michigan Council making progress in building reliable evaluation system for Michigan educators
Contact info:David ZemanManaging Director of Content and CommunicationsThe Education [email protected](248) 210-8476Ed Trust-Midwest urges…
Statement on Historic Education Reforms Passed by Michigan Legislature
Ed Trust-Midwest applauds lawmakers for passing teacher tenure, evaluation reforms that will help good teachers stay in classroomsLANSING, MICH.…
Teacher Evaluation in Michigan
Valuable and meaningful professional feedback is one of the cornerstones of growth as a person and as a professional.…
Improving and Supporting Michigan’s Teaching Quality
As any parent knows, teachers matter. A teacher’s effectiveness has more impact on student learning than any other factor…
Ed Trust-Midwest Comments on Gov. Snyder’s Education Speech
Contact info:Donnell Green, (248) 854-5297, [email protected] Arellano, (734) 277-5084, [email protected], MICH. (April 27, 2011…