Sentences with phrase «control teacher certification»

But, states and school districts determine that quality since they control teacher certification, hiring, and other teacher - related practices.

A highly structured bureaucracy controls teacher certification and training, says C. Emily Feistritzer, president of the National Center for Education Information (NCEI) in Washington D.C. «Anyone who wants to make more new teachers available can begin by dismantling this elaborate system, which locks out potentially highly qualified teachers while accrediting many who don't belong in the classroom,» Feistritzer says in a story, («The Truth Behind the «Teacher Shortage»»), originally published by the Wall Street Journal in January.

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If the bill becomes law, Indiana will join a handful of other states that already have teacher controlled beards with independent authority over licensing and certification.

Such bodies wield immense power through their control of teacher (and principal) preparation standards and certification decisions.

In short, many variables besides teacher certification might explain why scores were higher in some states than in others, but Darling - Hammond was able to control for very few of them.

Currently, state and local education agencies control decisions about teacher certification requirements, staffing ratios, required seat time for students, and school curricula.

We are also deeply troubled by the prospect that if virtually unregulated teacher certification academies with little academic quality control are allowed to proliferate, the employers of their graduates will be either charter schools, many operating in high - poverty communities, or traditional public schools that lack the resources to be selective and competitive in hiring the best - qualified teachers.

Quantitative analyses indicate that measures of teacher preparation and certification are by far the strongest correlates of student achievement in reading and mathematics, both before and after controlling for student poverty and language status.

A 2004 randomized experiment, also by the Washington - based Mathematica, found score boosts among elementary students taught by TFA teachers, too, but that study was criticized in part because the control group of teachers had lower rates of certification, less formal education preparation, and less experience in student - teaching than a national sample.

There were also problems with financial controls and safeguards between Achievement First, Inc, the private charter management corporation, and Amistad Academy, the public charter school; and many of the school's teachers lacked proper state certification.