Sentences with phrase «quality of the teaching workforce»

For example, a fundamental question is whether these pension plans improve the quality of the teaching workforce.

In addition to the idea that raising the economic benefits of being a teacher could improve the quality of the teaching workforce, the results also suggest one upside to recessions: they may provide a window of opportunity for school districts to recruit strong teachers who might otherwise have chosen a different career path.

Since more experienced teachers tend to be more effective than those with less experience, we might expect that pensions themselves boost the quality of the teaching workforce.

The effect sizes we document are on par with what one could expect from a hypothetical policy that substantially increases the quality of the teaching workforce.

On the agenda were programs and policies aimed at improving the quality of the teaching workforce, ranging from education, licensure, and recruitment of new teachers to peer assistance and review, professional development, and certification by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards.

New teacher evaluation systems are the latest effort to measure and improve the quality of the teaching workforce, but these new systems have already raised concerns that they will be subject to the same rating inflation by administrators that plagued previous systems.

According to important new research, teacher pensions — both how generous they are and how they are structured — have important effects on the quality of the teaching workforce.

In the wake of the NCTAF report, many states took bold steps to increase both the size and quality of the teaching workforce.

Administrators wanted to improve the quality of their teaching workforce.

Coupled with the continued testing and accountability fetish are dangerous provisions that will serve to diminish the quality of the teaching workforce in favor of a competitive teacher preparation market, whose graduates» worth will be measured by their ability to raise student test scores, and little else.