One exception is
math teachers with advanced degrees in math, said Thomas J. Kane, a professor at Harvard University's Graduate School of Education.»
Not exact matches
Perhaps not surprisingly, they found that
math and science
teachers,
teachers with advanced degrees, and charter school
teachers were all more likely to opt for the portable defined contribution plan.
Ben Merrill, principal of southwestern Idaho's small, rural Notus Junior / Senior High School and superintendent for the Notus School District, says, «Out here, when I have an opening for a
teacher in
advanced science or
math, I may get two to three applicants, all right out of college — no one
with a master's
degree.
«When Money Matters,» a report of a national study released in 1997 by the Educational Testing Service (ETS), determined that spending money on smaller classes has a greater impact on
math achievement than spending on administration, school buildings, or hiring
teachers with advanced degrees.
A sample of 36 Great Expectation model elementary schools were matched
with 556 Oklahoma non-Great Expectations elementary schools based on the following variables: ethnicity, free and reduced lunch eligibility, school size, average number of days students absent, percent of parents attending conferences, percent of
teachers with advanced degrees, percent passing third grade reading test, district population size, unemployment rate, average household income,
teachers per administrator, percent of student's in special education, instructional support budget, and district percent passing Algebra I. Five years of pass rates on third grade reading and third grade
math state exams were examined.
There does appear to be one important caveat to these studies:
teachers with advanced degrees in a specific subject area (e.g.
math or physics) show higher gains in student achievement when they teach classes in those specific subjects, according to this Education Next report:
Must be a
teacher pursuing an
advanced degree in mathematics,
math education, or elementary education
with math emphasis; member of South Carolina's Council of
Teachers of Mathematics for previous two years; have a valid SC teaching certificate; currently employed by a SC school; completed two years or more teaching mathematics in SC; accepted into graduate program.