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Improving Teacher Quality: Lessons from America's "No Child Left Behind"
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Smith, Emma; Gorard, Stephen – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2007
How developed countries train, recruit and retain their schoolteachers is an area of considerable interest in education today. In this paper we consider how the US is addressing the issue of teacher quality by holding schools and school districts accountable for ensuring that all teachers of core subjects are "highly qualified" by the…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Teacher Effectiveness, School Districts, Developed Nations