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The following is a list of resources, including publications and Web sites, that provide additional information on the latest research, policies and discussions focused on teacher quality. Check back regularly as we will periodically update this page with additional resources.
Publications
Teacher Recruitment and Retention
(Center for American Progress [CAP], May 2009)This paper highlights six strategies that states can undertake to help ensure that every student has access to an effective teacher: 1) analyze and report on the distribution of teachers between schools using value-added estimates and other measures; 2) design a model evaluation system for measuring teacher effectiveness and improving teacher performance; 3) support programs that offer financial incentives to effective teachers in high-poverty schools; 4) provide funding and models for recruitment and preparation programs that are specifically targeted to high-needs schools; 5) provide an induction and mentoring program for new teachers in high-poverty schools; and 6) require schools to report their budgets by actual expenditures, rather than positions.
(National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future [NCTAF], 2007)
In 2007, the National Commission on Teaching and America's Future (NCTAF) completed an 18-month study of the costs of teacher turnover in five school districts across the country. The study examines the costs of recruiting, hiring, processing and training teachers at both the school and district levels.
Wayne Brazell, Former Laurens County School District 56 Superintendent, Laurens, South Carolina
"The bottom line is that quality teachers make a difference. Our state is in trouble with teacher recruitment, recruiting heavily from foreign nations. Because of TAP, we have been able to recruit powerful teachers to work in our district."