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Adamson, Frank; Darling-Hammond, Linda – Center for American Progress, 2011
The fact that well-qualified teachers are inequitably distributed to students in the United States has received growing public attention. By every measure of qualifications--certification, subject matter background, pedagogical training, selectivity of college attended, test scores, or experience--less-qualified teachers tend to be found in…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Recruitment, Teacher Qualifications, Teacher Distribution
Ladd, Helen F. – Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, 2008
Within the context of the school finance literature, the concepts of equity and adequacy raise a number of complex definitional and pragmatic issues. The purpose of this paper is to clarify those issues and to use those concepts to evaluate the recent policy proposal called Weighted Student Funding (WSF). Though WSF contains some equity-enhancing…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Educational Equity (Finance), Financial Support, Financial Policy