For Planning Purposes Only July 18, 2011 Contact: Susan Douglas, 202-393-0020 sdouglas@nctq.

org MEDIA ADVISORY National Council on Teacher Quality to Release First-Ever Report Rating the Quality of Student Teaching in the United States Panel of Experts to Discuss Key Findings of the Report at Washington, D.C. Townhall WHO: WHEN: WHERE: National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) July 21, 2011 at 9 am-12 noon. Pavilion Room, Ronald Reagan Building, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC

WHAT: The National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ), a nonpartisan research and policy group, will release a study of student teaching that identifies systemic problems and individual successes in the nations student teaching programs and provides specific recommendations for improvement. The report, Student Teaching in the United States, is based on information gathered from 134 elementary teacher preparation programs (10 percent of those in the nation), and offers a preview of how NCTQ will rate institutions on the quality of their student teaching programs for its 2012 national review, undertaken in partnership with US News & World Report. You can also follow the event live or ask questions via Twitter @NCTQ. Use the hashtag #teacherprep. The mornings discussion will focus not only on the reports findings and implications but also feature a broader debate involving friends and foes of NCTQs national review. Panelists include the editor of US News and World Report, deans of several schools of education, a former state school chief who has endorsed the NCTQ review, and the head of a national accrediting body for education schools.

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