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NCTR Awards Grants to 29 Teacher Residency Programs to Support Recruitment, Preparation, and Retention of Educators

August 28, 2024 -- The National Center for Teacher Residencies (NCTR) is awarding $5.9 million in grants to 29 teacher…
NCTR Welcomes Two New Board Members

August 6, 2024 -- The National Center for Teacher Residencies (NCTR), a nonprofit organization dedicated to developing, launching, supporting, and…
Teacher Residencies Address the Nation’s Teacher Diversity, Shortage, & Effectiveness

July 18, 2024 -- The National Center for Teacher Residencies (NCTR) released its annual report for 2023-2024. The report indicates…
NCTR Releases Report That Examines State Policies Focused on Teacher Residencies

January 31, 2024 -- Teacher residencies are an important and growing teacher preparation and support pathway that can help address…
NCTR Welcomes Four New Board Members

October 24, 2023 -- The National Center for Teacher Residencies (NCTR), a nonprofit organization dedicated to developing, launching, supporting, and…

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EdWeek: 4 Things to Know About the Messy Landscape of Grow-Your-Own Teacher Prep

October 28, 2024 --It costs a lot to become a teacher. The educational burden on would-be teachers has grown in…
Inside Higher Ed: Innovative Teacher-Prep Programs Aim to Fix K-12 Shortages

July 24, 2024 -- Enrollment in teacher-preparation programs is still about 45 percent lower than in 2010, but there are…
EdWeek: Teachers’ Unions are Starting Teacher-Prep Programs

May 14, 2024 -- The Washington Education Association is in its first year of overseeing a teacher residency program, in…
EdWeek: What Teachers of Color Say They Need Most

December 15, 2023 -- The National Center for Teacher Residencies' (NCTR) Black Educators Initiative (BEI) was highlighted in an opinion…
American Progress: Hawkins Centers of Excellence at Minority-Serving Institutions are Boosting Teacher Diversity

October 19, 2023 -- The United States is facing a rapidly worsening teacher shortage. In fact, the latest data show that shortages…