Teacher preparation has emerged as an acutely politicized and publicized issue in US
education policy and practice, and there have been fierce debates about whether, how, by …

Winner of the 2019 Society of Professors of Education Outstanding Book Award Winner of
2018 AESA Critic's Choice Award Teacher accountability has been a major strategy for …

Abstract Stanford Center for Assessment, Learning, and Equity (SCALE) provides a
commentary on the manuscripts in this special issue, responding to criticisms of edTPA as …

Newspapers are a longstanding medium of disseminating information and offering
commentary on important social issues within the United States. Op-ed sections of …

The recognition of teacher status is very high and this is followed by a requirement of a high
competence level that a teacher has to have that the existence of teachers has to gain a …

In less than a decade, Pearson's distribution of the Teacher Performance Assessment
(edTPA) has expanded to hundreds of teacher education preparation programs in the …

The edTPA, a national performance assessment for teacher candidates, has seen rapid
adoption across the country since its development in 2009. Against the national backdrop of …

The edTPA is a performance-based assessment of teacher candidates created by the
Stanford Center for Assessment, Learning and Equity (SCALE) and nationally scored by …

In this case study, we examine the consequential validity of using edTPA in a social justice-
oriented, urban teacher preparation program. According to the developers of edTPA, a …

We currently live in an era of neoliberalism where privatization and profit are held up as
political ideals. The ascendency of this ideology threatens the notion that public schools can …