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Download full textLindsey, Kevin – First Focus, 2014
On July 7, 2014, the U.S. Department of Education announced plans to enforce a provision of the 2001 No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act meant to ensure that every student is taught by a great teacher and attends a school run by great administrators. The provision requires states to develop and implement plans to ensure that no subgroup of students is…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Placement, Equal Education, Educational Planning
Direct linkAmos, Jason, Ed. – Alliance for Excellent Education, 2008
"Straight A's: Public Education Policy and Progress" is a biweekly newsletter that focuses on education news and events both in Washington, DC and around the country. The following articles are included in this issue: (1) "Improving the Distribution of Teachers in Low-Performing High Schools": Alliance Brief and Event Examine…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Graduation Rate, Minority Groups, Public Education
Useem, Elizabeth; Offenberg, Robert; Farley, Elizabeth – Research for Action, 2007
This study of teacher staffing issues in the School District of Philadelphia, the third in a series, outlines the degree to which the district has succeeded in upgrading teachers' professional credentials, recruiting and retaining them, and equitably distributing experienced and credentialed teachers across all types of schools. Since the passage…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Credentials, Teacher Persistence, Teacher Effectiveness
Ingersoll, Richard M. – Center for the Study of Teaching and Policy, 2003
The failure to ensure that the nation's classrooms are all staffed with qualified teachers is one of the most important problems in contemporary American education. Over the past decade, many panels, commissions, and studies have focused attention on this problem and, in turn, numerous reforms have been initiated to upgrade the quality and…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Federal Legislation, Educational Change, Grade 12
Clotfelter, Charles; Ladd, Helen F.; Vigdor, Jacob; Wheeler, Justin – Sanford School of Public Policy, 2006
Although many factors combine to make a successful school, most people agree that quality teachers and school principals are among the most important requirements for success, especially when success is defined by the ability of the school to raise the achievement of its students. The central question for this study is how the quality of the…
Descriptors: Poverty, Academic Achievement, Labor Market, Educational Opportunities
Education Trust, Washington, DC. – 2003
This report presents 10 suggestions for what the U.S. Department of Education can do to help schools raise achievement for all students and close the achievement gap by increasing teacher quality: (1) make improving teacher quality job one; (2) insist on good data; (3) ensure that states make an immediate priority of fixing the indefensible…
Descriptors: Accountability, Data Collection, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Secondary Education
