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Adamson, Frank; Darling-Hammond, Linda – Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education, 2011
Students of color in low-income schools are 3 to 10 times more likely to have unqualified teachers than students in predominantly White schools. These disparities in teacher distribution matter greatly: Research consistently shows that teacher quality is one of the most important variables for student success and that teachers with stronger…
Descriptors: Teacher Salaries, Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Qualifications, Teacher Distribution
Darling-Hammond, Linda – 1994
This paper offers an overview and analysis of the status of teaching as an occupation and of teacher development in the United States. An opening section describes the development of the industrial-based education model that has been in place for this century and the reform movements that have started in the past two decades. A section on the…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Faculty Development