Federal law emphasizes the need for states and districts to ensure that all students—
particularly at-risk students, minority students, and students in high-poverty areas—have …

Background/Context Questions about teacher quality, including how teachers ought to be
educated and licensed, rank near the top of the educational agenda in the United States …

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 …

Powerful Teacher Education describes the strategies, goals, content, and processes of
seven highly successful and long-standing teacher education programs-Alverno College …

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

Recent debates about the utility of teacher education have raised questions about whether
certified teachers are, in general, more effective than those who have not met the testing and …

A number of studies have found that teachers are prone to leave schools serving high
proportions of low-achieving, low-income, and minority students for more economically and …

Although there has been sizable growth in the number of empirical studies of shared forms
of leadership over the past decade, the bulk of this research has been descriptive. Relatively …

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 …

The inequitable distribution of well-qualified teachers to students in the United States is a
longstanding issue. Despite federal mandates under the No Child Left Behind Act and the …