Minnesota
Minnesota Department of Education
Education Minnesota
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November 2007 - Report of the Teacher Academies: Math and Science (TAMS) Advisory Task Force - 2007 legislation provided for the creation of regional mathematics and science teacher academies. The Advisory Task Force report summarizes some of the key national and Minnesota trends reviewed by the TAMS Advisory Task Force during its deliberations, followed by specific recommendations about a proposed strategy for the Teacher Academies in their initial operation in the period of January 2008 through June 2009, Minnesota Department of Education.
June 2007 - Child Care Workforce in Minnesota: 2006 Statewide Study of Demographics, Training and Professional Development, Minnesota Department of Human Services.
April 2006 - Report to the Legislature Education Committees on the 2001-05 State Administration and Performance on the Common Core Assessments of Knowledge and Skills (Teacher Licensing Tests), Minnesota Board of Teaching.
2002 - Teacher Quality: Teacher Turnover - Information and findings regarding teacher turnover in Minnesota, North Central Regional Educational Laboratory.
National
Index of Highly Qualified Teacher Resources - U.S. Department of Education.
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February 2010 - Primary Sources: America's Teachers on America's Schools - 40,000 of our nation's public school teachers share their thoughts on American Education, Scholastic and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (Full Report; Star Tribune article).
February 9, 2010 - Tying Teacher Tenure to Student Scores Doesn’t Fly - Rhee, Bloomberg, Merrow, and the many others now beating the fashionable drum of “data driven” accountability in education—right on up to U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and President Barack Obama—seem determined to ignore some basic truths about both education and statistical analysis, Education Week.
December 22 2009 - What States Can Do to Improve Teacher Effectiveness - To make lasting improvements in student achievement and close gaps, states must increase the number of effective teachers and rush them to the places of greatest need — big-city and rural schools where the achievement gaps loom largest. States also must find better ways to help teachers develop the capacity to succeed with a wide range of learners. They must create fair but quick ways to shed from the workforce those teachers who can’t improve — or won’t, Education Trust.
November 2009 - Fighting for Quality and Equality, Too - If state leaders invest resources and energy wisely, they don’t have to choose between excellence and equity. This paper outlines ten steps state policymakers and school district leaders can take now that hold the promise to make a difference in teacher quality and equitable access to the best teachers for low-income students and students of color, Education Trust.
April 2009 - A Practical Guide to Evaluating Teacher Effectiveness - An overview of various measures with notes about the research base and strengths and cautions to consider for each measure, National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality.
March 2009 - Methods of Evaluating Teacher Effectiveness - Provides a five-point definition of teacher effectiveness, National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality.
June 2008 - Approaches to Evaluating Teacher Effectiveness: A Research Synthesis - Literature review of teacher effectiveness measures research and practical guidance for how best to evaluate teacher effectiveness and policy implications, National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality.
February 2008 - Conference Papers - Performance Incentives: Their Growing Impact on American K-12 Education, National Center on Performance Incentives.
February 2007 - Teaching Policy to Improve Student Learning: Lessons From Abroad - Eight nations' approaches and their implications for the U.S., Aspen Institute (Press Release).
2006 - Roots of Decline: How Government Policy Has De-Educated Teachers of Young Children - Analyzes labor trends for the early care and education workforce over the past 25 years (notably, an overall decrease in educational qualifications, and persistent wage stagnation) in the light of federal and state policy, and makes a series of recommendations for reversing these downward trends, Center for the Study of Child Care Employment, University of California Berkeley.
June 2005 - A Shared Responsibility: Staffing All High-Poverty, Low-Performing Schools with Effective Teachers and Administrators - A Framework for Action, Learning First Alliance.
2004 - Report to the Nation: Indicator 7 Teacher Quality, Education Commission of the States
Winter 2004 - The Real Value of Teachers: If good teachers matter, why don’t we act like it?, Education Trust.
2003 - Stand by Me: What Teachers Really Think About Unions, Merit Pay and Other Professional Matters, Public Agenda.
August 2003 - Teacher Quality: Understanding the Effectiveness of Teacher Attributes - Teacher quality is the most important school-related factor influencing student achievement, Economic Policy Institute.
December 2002 - Defining “Highly Qualified Teachers”: What Does “Scientifically-Based Research” Actually Tell Us?, American Educational Research Association.
2000 - A Sense of Calling: Who Teaches and Why, Public Agenda.
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