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Levitan, Shayna; Holston, Shannon; Walsh, Kate – National Council on Teacher Quality, 2022
When Congress reauthorized the Elementary and Secondary Schools Act in 2015, it intended to send a strong signal: any further encroachment of federal authority on the nation's K-12 schools needed to end. Compared to its more prescriptive predecessor in 2000, known as No Child Left Behind, the new law, dubbed "ESSA" for the Every Student…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation, Equal Education
Strang, Lucy; Bélanger, Julie; Manville, Catriona; Meads, Catherine – Higher Education Academy, 2016
In March 2016, the Higher Education Academy (HEA) commissioned RAND Europe to conduct a literature review of research published since 2012, with the aim of identifying and summarising the key trends and issues in the literature on how "quality teaching" and its impact are currently being defined and demonstrated at higher education…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Effectiveness, Instructional Effectiveness, Higher Education
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Zuercher, Deborah; Yoshioka, Jon; Zilliox, Joseph – Athens Journal of Education, 2014
With No Child Left Behind Legislation, the United States Department of Education defined a Highly Qualified Teacher as a teacher who has earned a bachelor degree, full state certification, and demonstrated competency as defined by the state in each core academic subject he or she teaches (USDOE, 2002). The Obama Blueprint for Education (USDOE,…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Qualifications, Definitions, Faculty Development
Sicherer, Mati – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Researchers have found that teachers seem to lack information about dyslexia which can influence teaching efficacy and behavior. Because inclusion has caused children with dyslexia to spend the majority of their day in general education classrooms, general education teachers are mainly responsible for educating these students. These teachers must…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Behavior, Inclusion
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Choi, Daniel S. – Educational Policy, 2010
According to the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act, states are required "...to ensure that poor and minority children are not taught at higher rates than other children by inexperienced, unqualified, or out-of-field teachers..." Although the NCLB law and State Education Agencies (SEAs) currently offer very clear definitions of…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Federal Legislation, Definitions, Teacher Qualifications
National Archives and Records Administration, 2009
The Secretary of Education (Secretary) establishes requirements, definitions, and approval criteria for the State Fiscal Stabilization Fund (Stabilization or SFSF) program. The Secretary may use one or more of these requirements, definitions, and approval criteria in awarding funds under this program in fiscal year (FY) 2010. These requirements,…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Resource Allocation, Financial Support, Criteria