Michael Marder

Beyond the Tipping Point: The Rise of the Uncertified Teachers in Texas New research reveals that half of newly hired teachers in Texas lack state certification and classroom experience. Now, researchers warn that hiring uncertified teachers is not an effective solution a...

At least in Texas the majority of new teachers is uncertified. New phase of teacher wars.

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Why Public School Curriculum Is Resistant to Political Pressure Politicians on both the left and the right have sought to change or limit what teachers can do inside classrooms. Teachers often ignore them.

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@danagoldstein.bsky.social will teachers to be more compliant when they are novices and uncertified?

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Cheapest, Fastest, Best: The Advantages of University-Based Teacher Preparation By Dr. Michael Marder, Executive Director of UTeach and Professor of Physics, The University of Texas at Austin

Here is an argument in favor of university-based teacher preparation. We need this case because it’s going away.

Cheapest, Fastest, Best: The Advantages of University-Based Teacher Preparation

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At the July 19 SBEC meeting, there were over 50 disciplinary cases of this sort. bit.ly/SBEC_7-19-24. What does it mean to suspend a teacher's certificate when teachers do not need certificates to teach?

There is an ethical dimension of putting teachers in the classroom without certification.

Teachers can violate the Code of Ethics and Standard Practices for Texas Educators without breaking the law. When these violations are caught they lead to suspension or revocation of certificates

Bad for Kids and Bad for Business: Texas Prosperity Is at Risk by Dr. Michael Marder, Professor of Physics and Executive Director of UTeach, The University of Texas at Austin

One-page description of the explosion of uncertified teachers in Texas

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Just in time for Texas to adopt a central role in the national attempt to bring semiconductor manufacturing back home. How exactly are we planning to obtain the technicians and engineers to pull this off amid plunging availability of foundational courses in Texas high schools? From out of state?

But it had already been undone. HB5 of 2013 canceled the 4x4 and made physics opt-in again. The results started to become visible only in 2018 and a decline in physics-taking continues.

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At this point Texas was far ahead of any other state in the percentage of students taking physics:
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It took four years for these students to graduate. Among the STEM disciplines the main effect was on Physics, where course-taking started to rise in 2011.

But it took until 2013 for the results of schools staffing up to provide physics to become visible.

HB1 of the third session of the 76th legislature in 2006 made a 4x4 curriculum the recommended plan for Texas high school students entering 9th grade in 2007. This means they were supposed to take four years each of English, Math, Social Studies, and Science.

It takes a long time for results of educational policy to show up. The fate of Physics in Texas is an interesting example.

The 4x4 graduation plan made 4 years each of English, Math, Science, and Social Studies the default for high school students starting 2006. The results started showing up when they graduated in 2010.

NAEP has been falling for a decade

New: U.S. scores fall sharply on international 4th and 8th grade math tests.

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Beyond the Tipping Point: The Rise of the Uncertified Teachers in Texas New research reveals that half of newly hired teachers in Texas lack state certification and classroom experience. Now, researchers warn that hiring uncertified teachers is not an effective solution a...

The big story in this data release, however, was the continued growth in the number of uncertified teachers.

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American Students’ Math Skills Slide Down World Rankings Global test scores show U.S. students are still struggling after the pandemic.

Now TIMMS is out and scores are down there as well

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Plus student ambassadors dressed up as bacon. Plus more students eating pancakes and bacon?

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And what program has student ambassadors who dress up as pancakes?

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What program has faculty and staff cooking pancakes for students?

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Finally note that there are two tabs in the Tableau story, and the second one lets you see how the Texas charter schools have been doing in relation in relation to college readiness.

Note the huge change in "College Readiness" in 2018 when the SAT changed its scoring method.

Note that on the Tableau Public sheet you can mouse over disks and the school name pops up.

The correlation between poverty concentration and college readiness is really striking. The fact that minority percentage, indicated by the change in color from blue to orange, rises in concert with poverty is also striking

This college readiness criterion is complicated, but you can think of it as "I want to keep my options open to go to college out of state"

"At/Above Criterion for All Grads: The % of graduates who scored at or above the criterion score of 480 on the SAT evidence-based reading and writing or 19 on ACT English section and 23 on the ACT composite and 530 on SAT mathematics or 19 on ACT Mathematics section and 23 on the ACT composite"

What is on the axes of these graphs? On the horizontal axis, labeled as Poverty Concentration is the percentage of students in each school eligible for free or reduced lunch. On the vertical axis is a measure of college readiness based on taking the SAT or ACT.

Relationship between school poverty concentration and SAT/ACT college readiness rates is very strong. Here Texas data from 2005 until 2022
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Red pencil on paper. Texas Teacher Certification Scandal

Following a teacher certification fraud scandal that drew national attention, Michael Marder, Exec. Director of #UTeach, discusses the growing issue of uncertified & underqualified teachers being hired in Texas schools 👇 uteachinstitute.medium.com/the-texas-teacher-certification-scandal-f377f2e9fadb