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From Education Next: What Relay is doing largely breaks the mold. Its students are full-time elementary- and middle-school teachers, almost all of them fresh out of college, almost none of them with a traditional teaching degree. The program is heavy on practice and nuts-and-bolts technique. Read more. 

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A Revolution Begins in Teacher Prep
By Jonathan Schorr | November 16, 2012

If you want to see the future of teacher training, you could do worse than to visit Samantha Patterson’s kindergarten classroom at North Star Academy Charter School of Newark. Read Full Article

Practice Makes Perfect—And Not Just for Jocks and Musicians
By Doug Lemov | October 26, 2012

In an essay in the Wall Street Journal, Doug Lemov, a Managing Director at Uncommon Schools and co-author of the new book Practice Perfect, highlights Relay GSE’s innovative practice-based approach to teacher preparation. Relay GSE, Lemov writes, preps teachers for what they will do all day on the job. Read Full Article

The Sheepskin Effect and Student Achievement
By Raegen Miller & Marguerite Roza | July 17, 2012

Performance assessment schemes at some schools may not pay quite enough attention to student achievement for some tastes, but the Relay Graduate School of Education in New York City is pushing the performance assessment envelope. Read Full Article

A New Type of Ed School
By June Kronholz | June 25, 2012

I was observing a class called Designing Assessments at the new Relay Graduate School of Education when a student asked if it was OK to rework questions from a teachersí guide to fit the English lesson she was teaching in a Brooklyn middle school that week. Sure, said Mayme Hostetter, Relayís dean: "No need to totally invent the wheel. Just make the wheel amazing." Read Full Article

Overhauling Education Schools
By Governor Gaston Caperton & Richard Whitmire | June 19, 2012

Relay GSE's innovative work has been featured in The Achievable Dream: College Board Lessons on Creating Great Schools, a new book by Governor Gaston Caperton and Richard Whitmire. Read Full Chapter.

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Relay GSE Earns Accreditation from MSCHE | November 15, 2012 | Download the PDF
NY Board of Regents Appoints Dr. Billie Gastic to State Board | September 14, 2012 | Download the PDF
Relay GSE Partners with NYC Department of Education | September 6, 2012 | Download the PDF
Relay Graduate School of Education Opens its Newark Campus | July 30, 2011 | Download the PDF
Relay Graduate School of Education Launches in New York City | July 30, 2011 | Download the PDF
Maddin named Provost of Relay Graduate School of Education | July 1, 2011  | Download the PDF
New York Board of Regents Charters Relay School of Education | February 15, 2011 | Download the PDF
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