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Prasiddha Shakya – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2024
This paper examines the impact of increasing teacher salaries on student outcomes by exploiting variation from the "50K The First Day" campaign that established a $50K salary floor for new teachers across New Jersey school districts. Using school-level data from 2003 to 2019, we employ a staggered difference-in-differences (DiD) approach…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Public School Teachers, Teacher Salaries, Salary Wage Differentials
National Council on Teacher Quality, 2020
All but four states in the nation now permit teachers to come into the profession through an "alternate route," compared to only a few 30 years ago. Alternate routes into the classroom have grown so acceptable that about one in five teachers now enters the profession through one of these programs, which offer some real benefits to the…
Descriptors: Alternative Teacher Certification, State Standards, Admission Criteria, Teacher Competency Testing
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Polikoff, Morgan S.; Desimone, Laura M.; Porter, Andrew C.; Hochberg, Eric D. – Elementary School Journal, 2015
Mentoring is a common form of support for beginning teachers. State and district mentoring policies vary along a number of dimensions, yet policymakers have little evidence to draw on in designing effective mentoring programs. We use quantitative and qualitative data from a study of beginning middle school mathematics teachers in 10 districts to…
Descriptors: Mentors, Educational Policy, Statistical Analysis, Qualitative Research
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Bambrick-Santoyo, Paul – Educational Leadership, 2012
Michelle is a first-year English teacher at Vailsburg Middle School, a public school in Newark, New Jersey. Michelle is dedicated, caring, energetic, and insightful. This year, the author had the chance to watch Michelle and her principal, Serena Savarirayan, meet for their weekly debriefing of Michelle's teaching. Serena began by praising…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), English Instruction, Questioning Techniques, Classroom Observation Techniques
National Council on Teacher Quality, 2011
For five years running, the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) has tracked states' teacher policies, preparing a detailed and thorough compendium of teacher policy in the United States on topics related to teacher preparation, licensure, evaluation, career advancement, tenure, compensation, pensions and dismissal. The 2011 State Teacher…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Beginning Teacher Induction, Beginning Teachers
Amoroso, Paul – Principal Leadership, 2005
The tradition of a sink-or-swim philosophy for new teachers was and had been common practice in Lakeside Middle School in Pompton Lakes, New Jersey for decades. However, the school's principal has worked to reverse the tradition of a sink-or-swim philosophy for new teachers. He, together with the administrative team, has created the New Teacher…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Faculty Development, Beginning Teacher Induction, Inservice Teacher Education