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Recruiting Effective Math Teachers : How Do Math Immersion Teachers Compare?

Boyd, Donald - 2010

of teacher candidates with undergraduate degrees in math. In response, some districts, including Baltimore, Philadelphia … who have not completed a teacher preparation program can become qualified to teach with only five to seven weeks of … coursework and practice teaching. Four years since its inception, the New York City Teacher Fellows Math Immersion program …

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Measure for Measure : The relationship between measures of instructional practice in middle school English Language Arts and teachers' value-added scores

Grossman, Pam - 2010

Even as research has begun to document that teachers matter, there is less certainty about what attributes of teachers make the most difference in raising student achievement. Numerous studies have estimated the relationship between teachers' characteristics, such as work experience and academic...

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Who Leaves? Teacher Attrition and Student Achievement

Boyd, Donald - 2008

Almost a quarter of entering public-school teachers leave teaching within their first three years. High attrition would be particularly problematic if those leaving were the more able teachers. The goal of this paper is estimate the extent to which there is differential attrition based on...

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