Publications

Increasing the Odds: How Good Policies Can Yield Better Teachers PDF (963KB)
This report provides a synthesis of recent research on the attributes of effective teachers geared towards policy makers in order to improve program design at all levels.

Selected Features from The Education Innovator

• Teacher Advancement Program Designed to Move Talent into the Classroom, July 28, 2003

Organizations

Center for the Study of Teaching and Policy
This consortium of several major universities studies ways that communities seek to renew the quality of teaching and the teacher force through local- and state-level strategies and initiatives. The site provides a series of research reports, policy briefs, and working papers related to teacher quality improvement efforts.

Education Commission of the States
This organization provides up-to-date research and policy information about state teaching quality systems. It also provides a bimonthly e-newsletter, the TQ UPDATE, focusing on issues of quality teaching in at-risk schools.

Interstate New Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium (INTASC)
This membership organization represents those responsible for the preparation, licensure, and discipline of educational personnel. The organization provides a variety of resources designed to promote high standards for educators, teacher mobility across state lines, comprehensive personnel screening, and information regarding teacher discipline.

National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ)
This policy and research organization promotes greater public understanding and reform of teaching policy at the federal, state, and local levels. The site provides recent policy research and news items addressing a range of teaching issues including alternative routes to certification.

The New Teacher Center
The New Teacher Center at University of California-Santa Cruz is a national resource focused on teacher and administrator induction. Using a systematic, mentor-based teacher induction model, the NTC provides training about mentoring in addition to services, research and policy analysis to encourage teacher development from preservice throughout the career of a teacher.

The Teacher Advancement Program (TAP)
The Teacher Advancement Program (TAP) was begun by the Milken Family Foundation to attract, retain, develop and motivate talented people to the teaching profession. To make it more attractive and rewarding to be a teacher, TAP focuses on developing multiple career paths, ongoing applied professional growth, instructionally focused accountability, and performance-based compensation.

The Teaching Commission
The Teaching Commission is working to transform the way in which America's public school teachers are prepared, recruited, retained, and rewarded. The Teaching Commission is working with stakeholders at the state, national and local levels to help build bipartisan coalitions for reform and chart a new course.