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 Here you will find a variety of research/reports/stories that pertain personally to teachers and the teaching profession. Posting here does not imply Georgia Partnership endorsement. School Districts’ Perspectives on the Economic Stimulus Package: Teaching Jobs Saved in 2009-10 But Teacher Layoffs Loom for Next School Year This report describes the uses of ARRA education funding at the schoopl district level and the progress of districts in implementing the main education components of ARRA. (August 2010) Teacher Attrition and Mobility - Results from the 2008-09 Teacher Follow-up Survey The objective of the study is to provide information about teacher mobility and attrition among elementary and secondary school teachers who teach in grades K–12 in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. (August 2010) Technical Methods Report: Error Rates in Measuring Teacher and School Performance Based on Student Test Score Gains This study estimates error rates in identification of upper elementary school teachers as low or high performing based on student test score gain data. (July 2010) Impacts of Comprehensive Teacher Induction - Final Results from a Randomized Controlled Study This study finds teachers who received two years of comprehensive induction services boosted student scores in reading and math more than teachers in a comparison group who didn’t receive the support. (June 2010) The MetLife Survey of the American Teacher - Collaborating for Success Findings from a new study by the National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future show the importance of collaborative learning in developing 21st-century skills. (June 2010) A Quality Teacher in Every Classroom - Perspectives from Accomplished California Teachers - Creating a Teacher Evaluation System That Works for California Teachers This report says teacher evaluation systems need to be revamped to utilize more clearly elucidated professional standards and include bona fide assessments of both classroom practice and student work. (June 2010) An Evaluation of the Teacher Advancement Program (TAP) in Chicago: Year Two Input Report This analysis concludes that preliminary results from a Chicago program containing performance-based compensation for teachers show no evidence that it has boosted student achievement on math and reading tests, compared with a group of similar, nonparticipating schools. (May 2010) Primary Sources: America's Teachers on America's Schools 40,000 of our nation's public school teachers were asked for their thoughts on American education with the goal of placing teachers’ voices at the center of the discourse around education reform. (March 2010) 2009 State Teacher Policy Yearbook This is the third annual review of state laws, rules and regulations that govern the teaching profession. Associated Press headline: Report: States' policies protect ineffective teachers, shortchanging students. (January 2010) Teaching for a New World: Preparing High School Educators to Deliver College- and Career-Ready Instruction It is well established that teacher quality is one of the most significant school influences on student achievement. Unfortunately, it is less clear how teacher preparation programs can prepare and recruit effective educators for every classroom. (November 2009) Supporting Teacher Effectiveness: The View From Generation Y A new report from Learning Point Associates in partnership with Public Agenda is the second based on their mixed-method research on retaining teacher talent (Public Education Network). (November 2009) Texas Governor's Education Excellence Grant Program: Year Three Evaluation Report This report shows the Texas Educator Excellence Grant, teacher merit-pay plan,did not produce the academic improvements that proponents hoped for when the program was launched in 2006. (Novmber 2009) Teaching for a New World: Preparing High School Educators to Deliver College- and Career-Ready Instruction If high school students are to master the skills and knowledge they need to do well in college or good jobs, their teachers need to be up to the task. (November 2009) Taking Human Capital Seriously: Talented Teachers in Every Classroom, Talented Principals in Every School This report outlines the dramatic steps necessary to improve teacher and principal talent. It offers 20 policy recommendations to improve student achievement by recruiting, developing, evaluating, compensating and retaining more effective teachers and principals. (November 2009) The World's Largest English Department A Ning group for English teachers reveals the potential of online social networking to break the culture of professional isolation. (September 2009) Teacher Strategies to Help Fourth-Graders Having Difficulty in Reading: An International Perspective The Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) assesses the reading achievement of fourth-graders and collects data on their teachers’ reading instruction practices and strategies. (September 2009) The Changing Landscape of Teacher Learning An education-technology scholar discusses the current state and promise of online teacher professional development. (September 2009) Individual Teacher Incentives, Student Achievement and Grade Inflation This examines individual, performance-related teacher pay in Portugal's public schools, introduced seven years ago. The study matched student-school data for secondary school national exams, then analyzed the same for two control groups - PEN. (September 2009) Importing Educators - Causes and Consequences of International Teacher Recruitment This report focuses on the little-known but growing practice of international recruiting for jobs in America's primary and secondary schools. (September 2009) Achieving a Wealth of Riches: Delivering on the Promise of Data to Improve Teaching and Learning While many policy discus-sions focus on data-driven decisionmaking as the answer, too often these conversations do not in-clude how classroom teachers can and should use data to improve instruction. (August 2009) Teacher Quality in Educational Production: Tracking, Decay and Student Achievement Growing concerns over the inadequate achievement of U.S. students have led to proposals to reward good teachers and penalize (or fire) bad ones. Education Week story. (July 2009) The Widget Effect: Our National Failure to Acknowledge and Act on Differences in Teacher Effectiveness This report looks at incompetence in the classroom and why it continues to be tolerated nationally. (June 2009) Student Demographics, Teacher Sorting, and Teacher Quality: Evidence from the End of School Desegregation According to this study of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg, North Carolina school district, the best teachers tend to leave when their schools experience an influx of African-American students. (May 2009) Good Teaching Qualities: Inducing Interest and Positive Expectations For students to become self-motivated learners, a fervent interest for the subject has to be sparked among them. (May 2009) The Effectiveness of Selected Supplemental Reading Comprehension Interventions: Impacts on a First Cohort of Fifth Grade Students This study, that intended to provide insight on the effectiveness of programs for reading comprehension, has found that three such programs had no positive impact. A fourth had a negative effect on student achievement. (May 2009) Bullying and Violence in Schools - What Teachers Should Know This report has practical steps that teachers can follow to implement anti-bullying programs and stem "the tide of the international plague known as bullying." (May 2009) Playing Nice: Teachers Learn to Help Kids Behave in School When teacher Deena Randle took over a Portland, Ore., preschool class three years ago, behavior problems were so bad that "kids were bouncing off the walls, pushing and shoving, not listening -- it was wild," she says. (April 2009) Learning Teams: Creating What's Next Over the next four years, more than a third of the nation’s 3.2 million teachers could retire, depriving classrooms of experienced instructors and straining taxpayer-financed retirement systems. (April 2009) Surveying the Landscape of Teacher Education in New York City: Constrained Variation and the Challenge of Innovation The report examines methods for teacher preparation: traditional teacher-college programs, Teach for America, New York City's Teaching Fellows program, and teachers on a temporary license. The study reaches interesting conclusions. (April 2009) This three-part series takes a look inside the teaching profession. Change pay, change teaching? This series ran from March 17 - 27, 2009. Posted here in April 2009) At-a-glance: Still learning reading beyond grade three In a research prcis on reading development in American schools, The Center for Public Education examines "Reading beyond grade three" in its At-a-glance series. (March 2009) Professional Development: Tarnished Brand Could Use Polish Professional development (PD) in education is a "tarnished brand" whose consumers are "angry," "unsatisfied," and "resigned," according to this article. (PEN - March 2009) The Genteel Unteaching of America's Poor Not all schooling is equal. Too many poor kids encounter expectations that deem them worthy of discipline and "the basics" rather than nurturing high-level thinking. (March 2009) Writing for the 21st Century Today, in the 21st century, people write as never before—in print and online. This addresses face three challenges that are also opportunities. (March 2009) The MetLife Survey of the American Teacher - Past, Present and Future MetLife has issued its 25th annual Survey of the American Teacher, with findings that are "substantially more positive than they have been in the past." (February 2009) Professional Learning in the Learning Profession This report compares American teachers’ participation in professional development with that of teachers in the international community. The report finds that the United States is substantially behind. (February 2009) Educational Leadership: How Teachers Learn - Learning with Wikis and Blogs The author writes that the Internet has the potential to revolutionize professional development for teachers, which has been susceptible to business-driven reform fads that have little effect on student achievement. (February 2009) Ten Tips For Creating a 21st–Century Classroom Experience The firm’s work with Ormondale Elementary School, in Portola Valley, California, helped pioneer a special “investigative-learning” curriculum that inspires students to be seekers of knowledge. (February 2009) An Evaluation of Teachers Trained Through Different Routes to Certification This report says students who have teachers certified through alternative-training programs do no worse in math or reading achievement than students whose teachers have been certified by traditional programs. (February 2009) Teacher Training and Development Fragmented American teachers are not given as many opportunities for on-the-job training as their international peers, and their effectiveness appears to suffer as a result. (February 2009) State Teacher Policy Yearbook. How Does Georgia Stack Up Against Other States? This is a hard look at what states are doing to retain effective teachers. Georgia doesn't get a good grade (D) but, in comparison with other states and considering the lofty NCTQ standards, it is showing promise. (January 2009) Where Does Georgia Stand in the Number of Nationally Board Certified Teachers? Here are the latest 2008 numbers of how many teachers are now nationally certified and where they are teaching. (December 2008) The Impact of Two Professional Interventions on Early Reading Instruction and Intervention The notion that professional development programs for teachers can be effective in helping children improve their reading skills does not fare especially well in this federally commissioned report. (November 2008) $crap the $acrocanct $alary $chedule Schools should stop paying teachers to acquire more credentials, and should use the money instead to give them higher starting salaries and bigger raises in their first years on the job. (August 2008) Why are public schools so bad at hiring good teachers? Improving a school’s faculty should be easy -- hire good teachers, get rid of bad ones, and provide new training to those who remain. But it's not. (July 2008) No Common Denominator: The Preparation of Elementary Teachers in Mathematics by America's Education Schools American students' chronically poor performance in mathematics on international tests may begin in the earliest grades, handicapped by the weak knowledge of mathematics of their own elementary teachers. (July 2008) Leveling Up: Narrowing the Teacher Academic Capital Gap in Illinois This report finds that teacher quality in disadvantaged Chicago schools has improved over this decade, largely because the district has focused on hiring inexperienced teachers with stronger academic backgrounds. (June 2008) City Scholarships Aim to Guarantee Future Workforce This story focuses on the new trend of cities across the nation to offer college and technical college scholarships to high school grads in an effort to guarantee a future home-grown, educated workforce. (May 2008) The Benwood Plan: A Lesson in Comprehensive Teacher Reform Hamilton County (Tenn.) is home to one of the nation's most widely touted school-reform success stories. (April 2008) Making a Difference? The Effects of Teach for America in High School This paper examines the effectiveness of Teach For America (TFA) teachers in North Carolina high schools, especially in math and science. (April 2008) |
 The Georgia Professional Standards Commission has a newsletter filled with good to know information about the teaching profession in Georgia. Check out The Pulse. Looking to become a teacher? Sooner or later you will no doubt face the Praxis exams. Stephanie Campbell suggests this site in preparation for those tests: The Journal of Teacher Education |
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