Over the past decade, The New Teacher Project has been engaged in the processes of
recruiting, selecting, training, and hiring new teachers for placement in high-need urban …

School administrators must ensure that every child has access to high quality instruction,
making it imperative that only the teacher candidates with the greatest probability of success …

One of the greatest differences in resources across schools in California comes from an
inequitable distribution of teachers. This study identifies reasons for this sorting of teachers …

Shortages of quality teachers are a common concern in many countries across the world; at
the same time, in many countries, the actual number of teachers far exceeds the need. In …

With the great number of candidates in the job market today, the necessity for school officials
to work through placement offices when recruiting, evaluating, and selecting teachers is …

The purpose of this research was to explore individual district hiring policies within
Louisiana. The primary question guiding this research was: Is there a particular process …

Decades of research on the determinants of student achievement make it clear that high
quality teachers matter for student success. Despite the recent focus on teacher quality …

This study introduces a new approach to measure effectiveness of teacher preparation
programs at US universities (TPP) by examining to what extent TPPs produce employable …

Districts across the country are facing severe shortages of teachers--especially in certain
subjects (math, science, special education, career and technical education, and bilingual …