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Research & Reports

EPLC Report | Preparation/Certification | Hiring/Recruitment | Induction/Mentoring
Professional Development | Retention | Hard-to-Staff Schools | Highly Qualified
Teacher Assessment | Out-of-Field Teaching | PDE Statistical Reports | Other

EPLC REPORT

Head of the Class: A Quality Teacher in Every Pennsylvania Classroom
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The Education Policy and Leadership Center, 2003

PREPARATION/CERTIFICATION

Teacher Quality in a Changing Policy Landscape: Improvements in the Teacher Pool
Educational Testing Service, December 2007

Educating School Teachers
By Arthur Levine, September 2006

Whate Education Schools Aren’t Teaching About Reading and What Elementary Teachers Aren’t Learning
National Council on Teacher Quality, May 2006

A Difficult Balance: Incentives and Quality Control in Alternative Certification Programs
Project on the Next Generation of Teachers, Harvard Graduate School of Education, September 2005

Instructional Paraprofessional Statistics and Trends
Education Commission of the States, September 2005

Preparing and Training Professionals: Comparing Education to Six Other Fields
The Finance Project, 2005

Does Teacher Preparation Matter? Evidence About Teacher Certification, Teach for America, and Teacher Effectiveness
By Linda Darling-Hammond, Deborah J. Holtzman, Su Jin Gatlin, and Julian Vasquez Heilig, Stanford University, April 2005

Teachers of Tomorrow: Recommendations for the Preparation of Highly Effective Elementary Teachers
Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education, April 2005

Alternative Teacher Certification: A State by State Analysis 2005
National Center for Alternative Certification, 2005

Alternative Certification: A Growing Trend to Address the Teacher Shortage
Education Commission of the States, December 2004

No Time to Waste: The Vital Role of College and University Leaders in Improving Science and Mathematics Education
Education Commission of the States, October 2004

Bureau of Teacher Certification and Preparation Annual Report, Fiscal Year 2002-2003
Pennsylvania Department of Education

The Effects of Teach for America on Students: Findings from a National Evaluation
Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., June 2004

Prepared to Teach: Teacher Preparation and Student Achievement in Eighth-Grade Mathematics
American Institutes for Research, April 2004

Eight Questions on Teacher Preparation: What Does the Research Say?
Education Commission of the States, 2003

Teacher Education Baccalaureate Degrees at Community Colleges
Education Commission of the States, December 2003

Seamless Pipeline from Two-year to Four-year Institutions for Teacher Training
Education Commission of the States, December 2003

Training for Paraprofessionals: The Community College Role
Education Commission of the States, December 2003

Bachelor’s Degrees Are Best: Higher Qualifications for Pre-Kindergarten Teachers Lead to Better Learning Environments for Children
The Early Education Trust, 2003

Occupational Choices and the Academic Proficiency of the Teacher Workforce
Center on Reinventing Public Education, April 2003

Variation in Teacher Preparation: How Well Do Different Pathways Prepare Teachers to Teach
By Linda Darling-Hammond, Ruth Chung and Fred Frelow, September 2002

The Effectiveness of ‘Teach for America’ and Other Under-certified Teachers on Student Academic Achievement: A Case of Harmful Public Policy
By David Berliner and Ildiko Laczko-Kerr, published by the Education Policy Analysis Archives, September 2002

The Research and Rhetoric on Teacher Certification: A Response to “Teacher Certification Reconsidered”
National Council for Teaching and America’s Future, October 2001

To Touch the Future: Transforming the Way Teachers are Taught: An Action Agenda for College and University Presidents
American Council on Education’s President’s Task Force on Teacher Education, October 1999

Quality Control and Quality Assurance Issues
A background paper by Calvin M. Frazier, prepared for the American Council on Education’s President’s Task Force on Teacher Education

Models of Teacher Education
A background paper by Dale P. Scannell, prepared for the American Council on Education’s President’s Task Force on Teacher Education

Teacher Quality and Alternative Certification Programs
Testimony of the National Center for Education Information before the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education, Training and Life-Long Learning, May 1999

HIRING/RECRUITMENT

Teachers and the Uncertain American Future
Center for Innovative Thought, The College Board, July 2006

The Case for Reforming The Staffing Rules in Urban Teachers Union Contracts
The New Teacher Project, November 2005

Elementary/Secondary School Teaching Among Recent College Graduates: 1994 and 2001
National Center for Education Statistics, July 2005

The Quest for Quality: Recruiting and Retaining Teachers in Philadelphia     Executive Summary
Research for Action, April 2005

Lifting Teacher Performance
Progressive Policy Institute, April 2005

Philadelphia’s Teacher Hiring and School Assignment Practices: Comparisons with Other Districts
Research for Action, April 2004

From Bystander to Ally: Transforming the District Human Resources Department
A study conducted by the Center on Reinventing Public Education for The Wallace Foundation, April 2004

Teaching at Risk: A Call to Action
The Teaching Commission, 2004

From the Headlines to the Frontlines: The Teacher Shortage and its Implications for Recruitment Policy
Center on Reinventing Public Education, July 2003

New Teachers’ Experiences of Hiring: Preliminary Findings from a Four-State Study
By Edward Liu, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Project on the Next Generation of Teachers, April 2003

What Benchmarks Suggest About How Financially Attractive it is to Teach in Public Schools
Center on Reinventing Public Education, March 2003

Teacher Salary Structure and the Decision to Teach in Public Schools: An Analysis of Recent College Graduates
Center on Reinventing Public Education, March 2003

Financial Incentives in State Accountability Systems: Performance Pay for Teachers
Center on Reinventing Public Education, September 2002

Survey and Analysis of Teacher Salary Trends
American Federation of Teachers, 2002

Nonprofessional Teacher Recruitment
The Urban Institute, January 2002

INDUCTION/MENTORING

Understanding New York City’s Groundbreaking Induction Initiative: Policy Implications for Local, State and National Education Leaders
The New Teacher Center, April 2006

Induction Into Learning Communities
National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future,
August 2005

The Impact of Mentoring on Teacher Retention: What the Research Says
By Richard Ingersoll and Jeffrey M. Kralik, February 2004

A Precarious Balance: How Can We Help Support New Teachers?
Teachers Network Policy Institute

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Teacher Professional Development in 1999-2000: What Teachers, Principals, and District Staff Report
National Center for Education Statistics, January 2006

Professional Development for Paraprofessionals Across the States
Education Commission of the States, August 2005

Characteristics of Public School Teachers’ Professional Development Activities: 1999-2000
National Center for Education Statistics, August 2005

Preparing and Training Professionals: Comparing Education to Six Other Fields
The Finance Project, 2005

Inside the Black Box: School District Spending on Professional Development in Education – Lessons from Five Urban Districts
The Finance Project, April 2005

Is National Board Certification an Effective Signal of Teacher Quality?
By Linda Cavalluzzo, The CNA Corporation, November 2004

Standards for Online Professional Development
Southern Regional Education Board, September 2004

National Board Certified Teachers and Their Students’ Achievement
By Leslie G. Vandevoort, Audrey Amrein-Beardsley, and David C. Berliner, Arizona State University, September 2004

Can Teacher Quality Be Effectively Assessed?
A study from the University of Washington and The Urban Institute, March 2004

The Delivery, Financing, and Assessment of Professional Development in Education: Pre-Service Preparation and In-Service Training
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The Finance Project, December 2003

Community Colleges as Professional Development Resources for Working Teachers
Education Commission of the States, December 2003

NBPTS Certification: Who Applies and What Factors Are Associated With Success?
Center on Reinventing Public Education, May 2003

Evaluating Standards-Based Professional Development for Teachers
The Urban Institute, August 2001

Peer Coaching for Improvement of Teaching and Learning
Teachers Network Policy Institute

RETENTION

To Teach or Not to Teach? Teaching Experience and Preparation Among 1992-1993 Bachelor’s Degree Recipients 10 Years After College
National Center for Education Statistics, July 2007

Teacher Attrition: A Costly Loss to the Nation and to the States
Alliance for Excellent Education, August 2005

Private School Teacher Turnover and Teacher Perceptions of School Organizational Characteristics
National Center for Education Statistics, June 2005

The Quest for Quality: Recruiting and Retaining Teachers in Philadelphia     Executive Summary
Research for Action, April 2005

Tapping the Potential: Retaining and Developing High-Quality New Teachers
Alliance for Excellent Education, June 2004

New-Teacher Excellence: Retaining Our Best
Alliance for Excellent Education, December 2002

The Cost of Teacher Turnover
Prepared for the Texas State Board for Educator Certification as part of the Texas Beginning Educator Support System Initiative, November 2000

HARD-TO-STAFF SCHOOLS

The Case for Reforming The Staffing Rules in Urban Teachers Union Contracts
The New Teacher Project, November 2005

A Shared Responsibility: Staffing All High-Poverty, Low-Performing Schools with Effective Teachers and Administrators
Learning First Alliance, 2005

Qualified Teachers for At-Risk Schools: A National Imperative
National Partnership for Teaching in At-Risk Schools,
February 2005

Teacher Perceptions of the Work Environment in Hard-to-Staff Schools
Report on a working conditions survey published by the Education Commission of the States, November 2004

Once & For All: Placing A Highly Qualified Teacher in Every Philadelphia Classroom
Learning from Philadelphia’s School Reform, 2003

The Retention and Qualifications of New Teachers In Philadelphia’s High-Poverty Middle Schools: A Three-Year Cohort Study
By Elizabeth Useem, Philadelphia Education Fund, 2003

Is There Really a Teacher Shortage?
Research by Dr. Richard Ingersoll, Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Teaching and Policy and The Consortium for Policy Research in Education, September 2003

Missed Opportunities: How We Keep High-Quality Teachers Out of Urban Schools
The New Teacher Project, September 2003

Higher Pay in Hard-to-Staff Schools: The Case for Financial Incentives
American Association of School Administrators, June 2002

Absence Unexcused: Ending Teacher Shortages
The Urban Institute, January 2002

HIGHLY QUALIFIED TEACHERS

Implementing the No Child Left Behind Teacher Requirements
Center on Education Policy, August 2007

Meeting the Highly Qualified Teacher Challenge: The Secretary’s Fifth Annual Report on Teacher Quality
U.S. Department of Education, September 2006

Qualifications of Public Secondary School Biology Teachers, 1999-2000
National Center for Education Statistics, June 2005

Searching the Attic: How States are Responding to the Nation’s Goal of Placing a Highly Qualified Teacher in Every Classroom
National Council on Teacher Quality, December 2004

Unfulfilled Promise: Ensuring High Quality Teachers for Our Nation’s Students
Southeast Center for Teaching Quality, August 2004

Special Education: Additional Assistance and Better Coordination Needed among Education Offices to Help States Meet the NCLBA Teacher Requirements
U.S. General Accounting Office, July 2004

Teaching Quality: A 50-State Perspective of Policy Implementation
Education Commission of the States, Spring 2004

Necessary and Insufficient: Resisting a Full Measure of Teacher Quality
The National Council on Teacher Quality, 2004

Meeting NCLB Goals for Highly Qualified Teachers: Estimates by State from Survey Data
Council of Chief State School Officers, October 2003

A Community Action Guide to Teacher Quality
Public Education Network, May 2003

Quality Counts 2003: Ensuring a Highly Qualified Teacher for Every Classroom
Education Week, January 2003

TEACHER ASSESSMENT

Using Student Progress to Evaluate Teachers: A Primer on Value-Added Models
Educational Testing Service, September 2005

Can Teacher Quality Be Effectively Assessed?
A study from the University of Washington and The Urban Institute, March 2004

Improving Teacher Evaluation to Improve Teaching Quality
National Governors Association, December 2002

OUT-OF-FIELD TEACHING

Out-of-Field Teaching and the Limits of Teacher Policy
Research by Dr. Richard Ingersoll, Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Teaching and Policy and The Consortium for Policy Research in Education, September 2003

All Talk, No Action: Putting an End to Out-of-Field Teaching
The Education Trust, August 2002

PDE STATISTICAL REPORTS

Public Schools Professional Personnel
Pennsylvania Department of Education

Supply and Demand 2001-2006
Bureau of Teacher Quality and Professional Education, PDE, September 2007

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Pennsylvania Reports | National Reports

Pennsylvania Reports

Closing the Teacher Quality Gap in Philadelphia: New Hope and Old Hurdles
Research for Action, April 2007

Investing in Great Teachers for All Students
Final Report of the Governor’s Commission on Training America’s Teachers, August 2006

A Study to Determine the Feasibility and Cost Effectiveness of Placing Public School Employees Under the Commonwealth’s Jurisdiction for the Purposes of Providing Health Benefits
A report from the Pennsylvania Legislative Budget and Finance Committee, authorized by House Resolution 159 of 2003, February 2004

The Challenge of Ensuring Teacher Quality and Supply
Power point presentation by Nancy A. Doorey, Mid-Atlantic Regional Teachers Project, presented to the Pennsylvania Conference on Teacher Quality and Supply Issues, September 26, 2002

Poverty, Race, Resources, Results in the Pittsburgh Public Schools
A report commissioned by the Pennsylvania Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), April 2003

National Reports

2003-04 Schools and Staffing Survey and 2004-05 Teacher Follow-Up Survey
National Center for Education Statistics, October 2007

Teaching Inequality: How Poor and Minority Students Are Shortchanged on Teacher Quality
The Education Trust, June 2006

Teacher Qualifications, Instructional Practices, and Reading and Mathematics Gains of Kindergartners
National Center for Education Statistics, March 2006

Diversifying Teacher Compensation
Education Commission of the States and The Teaching Commission, December 2005

Survey and Analysis of Teacher Salary Trends 2004
American Federation of Teachers, October 2005

Rankings & Estimates: Rankings of the States 2004 and Estimates of School Statistics 2005
National Education Association, June 2005

American’s Commitment to Quality Teaching in Public Schools
The Teaching Commission, April 2005

Teacher Working Conditions are Student Learning Conditions: A Report to Governor Mike Easley on the 2004 North Carolina Teacher Working Conditions Survey
Southeast Center for Teaching Quality, March 2005

Listening to the Experts: A Report on the 2004 South Carolina Teacher Working Conditions Survey
Southeast Center for Teaching Quality, March 2005

California’s Hidden Teacher Spending Gap
The Education Trust – West, 2005

Teacher Attrition and Mobility: Results from the Teacher Follow-up Survey, 2000-01
National Center for Education Statistics, August 2004

The MetLife Survey of the American Teacher: An Examination of School Leadership
A survey conducted by MetLife, 2003

Status of the American Public School Teacher 2000-2001
National Education Association, August 2003

Teacher Quality: Understanding the Effectiveness of Teacher Attributes
Excerpts from the book by Jennifer King Rice, Associate Professor, University of Maryland, August 2003

How Schools Matter: The Link Between Teacher Classroom Practices and Student Academic Performance
By Harold Wenglinksy, Educational Testing Service, February 2002

Data Systems to Enhance Teacher Quality
State Higher Education Executive Officers, July 2003

Teacher and Teaching Quality: State Policies that Make a Difference
PowerPoint by Barnett Berry, The Southeast Center for Teaching Quality, for the New Mexico Legislative Education Study Committee, August 2002

Teacher Quality and Student Achievement: A Review of State Policy Evidence
By Linda Darling-Hammond, Center for the Study of Teaching and Policy, December 1999

No Dream Denied: A Pledge to America’s Children
National Council for Teaching and America’s Future, January 2003

Solving the Dilemmas of Teacher Supply, Demand, and Standards: How We Can Ensure a Competent, Caring, and Qualified Teacher for Every Child
National Council for Teaching and America’s Future, 2000

Teaching for High Standards: What Policymakers Need to Know and Be Able To Do
National Council for Teaching and America’s Future

Toward a Growth Model of Teacher Professionalism
Teachers Network Policy Institute, August 1997

Shared Leadership: School Autonomy and Teacher Accountability
Teachers Network Policy Institute, August 1997

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