No Child Left Behind Act: More Information Would Help States Determine Which Teachers Are Highly Qualified
United States General Accounting OfficeJuly 2003
United States General Accounting OfficeJuly 2003
Jane K. Doty, Gregory N. Cameron, and Mary Lee Barton, Mid-Continent Research for Education and Learning (McREL)2003
Marvin Kosters and Brent Mast, American Enterprise Institute Press2003
Nelson Smith, Progressive Policy InstituteJuly 9, 2003
Gadfly readers know that teacher certification is no guarantee of teacher effectiveness. So our interest was piqued by a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed that spotlights a summer school program run largely by students with no formal education training.
First, there was the Bush administration's proposal to reform Head Start. [See http://www.edexcellence.net/gadfly/issue.cfm?issue=10#350.] That proved too strong for the House, which watered the measure down.
If you're planning some summer reading, allow us to suggest "An Impossible Job?
Gadfly is pleased to note that Phoebe Cottingham has been named commissioner of the National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance at the Department of Education (within the new Institute for Education Sciences that replaced the old Office of Educational Research and Improvement).
With states aflutter over how to meet NCLB's mandate that they must guarantee a "highly qualified teacher in every classroom," two recent reports are illuminating.Last month, Education Secretary Rod Paige issued his second annual report on teacher quality ("Meeting the Highly Qualified Teachers Challenge" or