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Literacy of Teachers. Indicator of the Month.
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National Center for Education Statistics (ED), Washington, DC. – 1995
An important issue in the education reform debate is the effect of comparatively low salaries on teacher quality. Prose literacy scores are one of the best available measures of verbal ability, a factor identified by research as being associated with teacher quality. If teachers have lower prose literacy scores relative to college graduates in…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education, Job Satisfaction, Occupational Aspiration