Points of Practice October 2014 | Page 30

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 30 EPI claims the international data is unreliable, and not comparable. The NEA weighs in about why there’s international disparity. The Desegregation Strategy So What’d You Think? Enjoy It? Want More? SUBSCRIBE! 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.” 31