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Carver-Thomas, Desiree; Kini, Tara; Burns, Dion – Learning Policy Institute, 2020
Teacher shortages that most severely affect schools serving the least advantaged children have been part of the California education landscape for the last half decade. This brief describes how key teacher supply and demand factors vary across the state, and it provides potential policy solutions to mitigate ongoing shortages. The brief also…
Descriptors: Teacher Supply and Demand, Teacher Shortage, Educational Policy, COVID-19
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Carver-Thomas, Desiree; Kini, Tara; Burns, Dion – Learning Policy Institute, 2020
When California students returned to school in fall 2019, hundreds of thousands returned to classrooms staffed by substitutes and teachers who were not fully prepared to teach. In recent years, California has experienced widespread shortages of elementary and secondary teachers as districts and schools seek to restore class sizes and course…
Descriptors: Teacher Supply and Demand, Teacher Shortage, Educational Policy, COVID-19
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Chiero, Robin; Beare, Paul; Marshall, James; Torgerson, Colleen – Educational Media International, 2015
Teacher education struggles with the challenge of preparing and retaining high-quality teachers who can work effectively with all students. While educator preparation is a strong correlate of student achievement, traditional university-based programmes are not available to all potential teachers. This manuscript describes CalStateTEACH, an online…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Teacher Education, Teacher Effectiveness, Program Descriptions
Suckow, Marjorie A.; Lau, Phi Phi – California Commission on Teacher Credentialing, 2018
Determining teacher supply in California is essential for policymakers as they analyze how current statutes and policies impact teacher recruitment, teaching incentives and teacher preparation. This report provides data collected by the Commission on Teacher Credentialing (Commission) and addresses several questions regarding the supply of…
Descriptors: Teacher Supply and Demand, Teacher Certification, Public Schools, Credentials
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Bae, Soung – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2018
The challenges facing our children in the 21st century are rapidly changing. As a result, schools bear a greater responsibility to prepare students for college, career, and life and must be held accountable for more than just testing and reporting on a narrow set of outcomes aimed at minimum levels of competency. Thus, scholars, educators, and…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Policy, State Policy, Measurement
Yenpasook, Marissa S. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The population of California continues to become increasingly diverse, and graduate programs in counselor preparation are dedicating more focus to curriculum and instruction that provide an inclusive space to explore diverse experiences and develop multicultural competence. One specific group contributing to the diversity of the national landscape…
Descriptors: Multiracial Persons, Counselor Training, Phenomenology, Heuristics
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Podolsky, Anne; Darling-Hammond, Linda; Doss, Christopher; Reardon, Sean – Learning Policy Institute, 2019
Despite wide achievement gaps across California between students from different racial and socioeconomic backgrounds, some school districts have excelled at supporting the learning of all their students. This analysis identifies these positive outlier districts--those in which students of color, as well as White students, consistently achieve at…
Descriptors: School Districts, Minority Group Students, Racial Differences, Ethnicity
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Podolsky, Anne; Darling-Hammond, Linda; Doss, Christopher; Reardon, Sean – Learning Policy Institute, 2019
The explosion of knowledge and the growing complexity of modern life are changing expectations for what young people need to learn and be able to do. Success in the 21st century does not depend solely on what people know, but also on what they can do with what they know. In this report, the authors summarize the results of a quantitative analysis…
Descriptors: School Districts, Minority Group Students, Racial Differences, Ethnicity
Jones, Shawn Cecil – Online Submission, 2017
Classroom size, curriculum, and student attendance are all important factors that affect student outcomes, but these factors cannot compare to the classroom teacher's influence on student academic performance. Unfortunately, highly qualified teachers are not equally effective in different school settings. Findings associated with highly effective…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Urban Schools, Suburban Schools, Teacher Characteristics
Sill, Nancy – ProQuest LLC, 2014
This two-phase sequential mixed methods exploratory study examined the perceived skill deficits of instructional deans at California community colleges to better understand the training and development needs that are necessary to support dean success and to prepare them for advancement in a timelier manner. This study is grounded in the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Deans, Middle Management, Administrator Qualifications
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Brown, Katherine E. – Thought & Action, 2015
When discussing the role of higher education as it applies to students, responses often devolve into two opposing camps: one for people who advocate for and defend the role of liberal arts education as basic to the preservation of democracy and freedom, and the other for people who care about the connection between what students learn in…
Descriptors: Employment Qualifications, Liberal Arts, Readiness, Career Development
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Carver-Thomas, Desiree; Darling-Hammond, Linda – Learning Policy Institute, 2017
In a January 2016 report on teacher shortages in California, "Addressing California's Emerging Teacher Shortage: An Analysis of Sources and Solutions," the Learning Policy Institute found that there were too few qualified California teachers to meet the growing demand of school districts across the state. A fall 2016 survey of more than…
Descriptors: Teacher Shortage, Teacher Supply and Demand, Teacher Selection, Teacher Qualifications
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Learning Policy Institute, 2017
In the past year, overall teacher workforce trends in California have worsened, with especially severe consequences in special education, math, and science, and significant threats in bilingual education. California's teacher shortage has worsened as teacher demand grows and teacher supply stagnates. As a result, districts are having to hire a…
Descriptors: Teacher Shortage, Teacher Selection, Teacher Qualifications, Teacher Certification
McConville, Shannon; Bohn, Sarah; Brooks, Bonnie – Public Policy Institute of California, 2020
These are the technical appendices for the report, "Supporting Student Parents in Community College CalWORKs Programs." The appendices include: (1) CalWORKs and EOPS Programs at California Community Colleges; (2) Survey of Program Directors; (3) Survey Instrument; (4) Survey Summary Statistics; and (5) Analysis of CalWORKs Students.…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Parents, Child Rearing
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Castellano, Katherine E.; Duckor, Brent; Wihardini, Diah; Telléz, Kip; Wilson, Mark – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2016
With the adoption by most states of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for English language arts and literacy and for mathematics (CCSS Initiative, 2010a, 2010b) comes major changes in public education that will affect instructional practice, curriculum, and assessment across the nation. Heritage, Walqui, and Linquanti (2015) argued that the…
Descriptors: Elementary School Mathematics, Mathematics Teachers, Teacher Certification, Language Usage
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