Value-added modeling (VAM) to estimate school and teacher effects is currently of
considerable interest to researchers and policymakers. Recent reports suggest that VAM …

Abstract In October, 2001, the Baltimore-based Abell Foundation issued a report purporting
to prove that there is" no credible research that supports the use of teacher certification as a …

Every teacher seeks to be an effective teacher. Every teacher wants to have a positive,
remarkable, and lasting influence on students' lives. But what makes for an effective …

Published for the American Educational Research Association by Routledge This landmark
volume presents the work of the American Educational Research Association's Panel on …

We empirically test how 12th-grade students of teachers with probationary certification,
emergency certification, private school certification, or no certification in their subject area …

Secretary essentially argues for the dismantling of teacher education systems and the
redefinition of teacher qualifications to include little preparation for teaching. Stating that …

Teacher quality is now the focus of unprecedented policy analysis. To achieve its goals, the
No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) requires a “highly qualified teacher” in all classrooms. The …

Policy and program decisions involve choices among different ways of preparing teachers.
These choices are shrouded in increasingly contentious debates as teacher shortages …

The authors respond to Dan Goldhaber and Dominic Brewer's article in the Summer 2000
issue of Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis that claimed from an analysis of NELS …

Each petent rooms fall, across and more confident than America. one to hundred Some help
enter their thousand students with strong new learn. teachers preparation, Many, enter …