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America’s Challenge: Effective Teachers for At-Risk Schools and Students
In the two years since the launch of the National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality, a tremendous amount of information has been compiled about the availability, recruitment, and retention of teachers for at-risk schools and students. National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality has compiled much of this learning in its inaugural biennial report.
Communication Framework for Measuring Teacher Quality and Effectiveness: Bringing Coherence to the Conversation
This communication framework was developed to promote effective dialogue about the measurement of teacher quality and effectiveness.
Lessons Learned: New Teachers Talk About Their Jobs, Challenges and Long-Range Plans. Issue No. 1—They're Not Little Kids Anymore: The Special Challenges of New Teachers in High Schools and Middle Schools
Generation Y teachers want to shake up the stagnant education system, according to a survey of first-year teachers commissioned by National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality funded by the U.S. Department of Education. The freedom to be creative, the power to make a difference, opportunities to grow, rewards, and an end to the one-size-fits-all model of instruction is what new teachers say in chorus will improve the quality of education, according to the nationwide survey of 865 teachers in their first year in the classroom, conducted by Public Agenda. Most telling is that 79 percent of the respondents would choose supportive administrators over significant salary increases. Most of the survey sample is younger than 29.
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Public Agenda's work also is summarized in theNational Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality's Biennial Report. Slide presentations and full audio of experts discussing the National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality's Biennial Report as well as the Public Agenda work are accessible in the National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality webcast.
Lessons Learned: New Teachers Talk About Their Jobs, Challenges and Long-Range Plans. Issue No. 2—Working Without a Net: How New Teachers From Three Prominent Alternate Route Programs Describe Their First Year on the Job
Working Without a Net provides additional results from the new-teacher survey conducted by Public Agenda. It focuses on new teachers in high-needs schools, comparing the perspectives of those from traditional teacher education versus those from three alternate-route programs: Teach for America, Troops to Teachers, and The New Teacher Project.
The Link Between Teacher Quality and Student Outcomes:
A Research Synthesis
This research synthesis explores evidence for the relationship between teacher quality and student learning in an effort to help identify which teacher qualifications and characteristics should be prioritized in educating and hiring those teachers who are most likely to have a positive impact on student learning.
Qualified Teachers for At-Risk Schools: A National Imperative
The National Partnership for Teaching in At-Risk Schools developed this report in response to the urgent need to recruit and retain quality teachers in at-risk, hard-to-staff schools.
Recruiting Quality Teachers in Mathematics, Science, and Special Education for Urban and Rural Schools
This publication focuses on six strategies for recruiting highly qualified teachers in mathematics, science, and special education.
The Teacher Preparation > Teacher Practices > Student Outcomes Relationship in Special Education: Missing Links and New Steps. A Research Synthesis
This research synthesis is an in-depth review of the literature on the links between the content and form of preservice teacher preparation in special education, teachers’ practice in classrooms, and the achievement outcomes of students with special needs. It documents the need for more research in this important area.
Teacher Quality in At-Risk Schools
This publication focuses on four issues associated with getting and keeping quality teachers in the schools that most need them.
TQ Research & Policy Briefs
These research and policy briefs provide important information in a succinct, digestible format on a specific topic in teacher quality.
TQ Research & Policy Updates
These quarterly updates offer details about what's new in teacher quality as well as stories and questions from the field.
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