Resources!
Statistics and Snapshots
About the Distribution of
Excellent Teaching
This publication from the
Office of Civil Rights details
disparities in teacher
effectiveness.
Education Week on the
distribution of experienced
teachers.
loss of minority teachers
This chart prepared by the
National Center on Education
Statistics shows specific
salary incentives broken
down by category and state.
The Charlotte-Mecklenberg,
study, “More than Money.”
Lessons learned from TFI
sites.
UCLA’s Civil Rights Project on Principals
segregation in NY schools.
Leadership and student
Reactions to Federal Waiver learning.
Policies
Should we compensate
The Coalition for Teacher
principals like CEOs?
Quality weighs in on waivers
The impact of effective
and school segregation.
principals.
The Congressional Black
The Wallace Foundation
Caucus voices doubt about
allocating $30 million to help
waivers.
strengthen principal
Teacher Preparation
supervision in 14 urban
school districts.
This op-ed laments the
quality of teacher
International Examples
preparation in the US.
International comparisons of
Incentives for Teachers
student achievement.
The Center for American
Progress offers retention
suggestions to combat the
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EPI claims the international
data is unreliable, and not
comparable.
The NEA weighs in about
why there’s international
disparity.
The Desegregation Strategy
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Brooklyn’s Arts and Letters
has taken aim at racial and
economic segregation.
Attendance
Attendance Works
documents the pernicious
effects of chronic absences
on student achievement in a
new report.
Books:
In “The Teacher Wars: A
History of America’s Most
Embattled Profession,” Dana
Goldstein reviews 200 years
of American education.
Elizabeth Green sheds light
on the challenging task of
teaching, in “Building a Better
Teacher.”
Amanda Ripley looks to
international examples for a
U.S. education prescription
in “The Smartest Kids in the
World: And How They Got
That Way.”
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