Who Should Be Accountable for What Beginning Teachers Need to Know?

Sandra Stotsky Columnist EdNews.org

Dr. Stotsky is an independent researcher and consultant in education. Her current research focuses on the quality of the high school curriculum, teacher quality, and the quality of English language arts and reading standards in the 50 states.She is a member of the National Mathematics Advisory Panel, appointed in May 2006 for a two-year term. She also directs a one-week summer institute on the Constitution and Bill of Rights co-sponsored by the Lincoln and Therese Filene Foundation and the Center for Civic Education in California.From 1999-2003, she was Senior Associate Commissioner in charge of the Center for Teaching and Learning at the Massachusetts Department of Education where she directed revisions of the state's licensing regulations for teachers, administrators, and teacher training schools, and the state's PreK-12 standards for history and social science, English language arts and reading, mathematics, science and technology/engineering, early childhood (preschool), and instructional technology. She has authored or edited several books and monographs, and has published many research reports, essays, and reviews in English language arts and reading journals. She was a Research Scholar in the School of Education at Northeastern University from 2004 to 2006.Dr. Stotsky earned her doctorate at the Harvard Graduate School of Education