Minnesota Department of Education

• Minnesota Board of Teaching
  
  
• Teacher Testing Requirements
  
  
• Professional Development

Education Minnesota

• Tenure: The top 10 issues - Minn. Stat. §§ 122A.40 & 122A.41
  
  
• Grading teachers fairly; tips for parents

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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 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.