The Essential Force for Improving Student Achievement
Lewis C. Solmon|Tamara W. Schiff
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Description
Contents
This book provides readers with the opportunity to hear what experts in the educational community think about the myriad issues involved in improving the quality of all teachers in our nation’s classrooms.
Foreword.
Acknowledgments.
Preface.
Introduction.
Part I. Equity and Excellence
Chapter 1. Equity and Excellence: Ensuring a High-Quality Educational Experience for Every Child.
Part II. How to Determine Who Is a Quality Teacher
Chapter 2. How to Determine Who Is a Quality Teacher.
Panel Contributions
Chapter 3. Forgive and Remember: The Challenges and Opportunities of Learning from Experience.
Chapter 4. Making Differences: A Table of Learning.
Chapter 5. Teacher Quality.
Chapter 6. Incentivized School Standards Work.
Part III. Does Certified or Alternatively Certified Mean Qualified?
Chapter 7. Does Certified or Alternatively Certified Mean Qualified?
Panel Contributions
Chapter 8. Meeting the Highly Qualified Teachers Challenge.
Chapter 9. What's Wrong with Teacher Certification?
Chapter 10. Regulation Versus Markets: The Case for Greater Flexibility in the Market for Public School Teachers.
Part IV. No Child Left Behind: A Debate
Chapter 11. No Child Left Behind: A Debate.
Part V. The Growth of the Teacher Advancement Program
Chapter 12. The Growth of the Teacher Advancement Program.
Part VI. Leadership
Chapter 13. Learning Some Basic Truisms About Leadership.