Delaware, like the rest of the country, faces a challenge to ensure a high-quality, diverse K-12 workforce that meets the needs of its schools and students. TeachDE was launched in 2017 to identify the challenges Delaware faces in strengthening its teacher pipeline and to develop creative recommendations to address those challenges. TeachDE's…

Over the past decade, national initiatives have shifted States' attention to the challenge of turning around low-performing schools. The lack of consistent, dramatic improvements in the lowest-performing schools reflects the severity of the school turnaround challenge, but also suggests the need to continuously evaluate and refine turnaround…

For five years running, the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) has tracked states' teacher policies, preparing a detailed and thorough compendium of teacher policy in the United States on topics related to teacher preparation, licensure, evaluation, career advancement, tenure, compensation, pensions and dismissal. The "2011 State…