Creating a New Teaching Profession (Urban Institute Press) - Softcover

Goldhaber, Dan; Hannaway, Jane

 
9780877667629: Creating a New Teaching Profession (Urban Institute Press)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0877667624 ISBN 13: 9780877667629
Publisher: Urban Institute Press,U.S., 2009

Synopsis

Considering that having a quality teacher is the foremost in-school predictor of students' success, ensuring teacher excellence is vital to the nation's educational system. In Creating a New Teaching Profession, diverse scholars assess the state of human capital development in the teaching profession today and how to progress.

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About the Author

Dan Goldhaber is professor in Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington, Bothell; an affiliated scholar at the Urban Institute; and an editor of Education Finance and Policy. He previously served as an elected member of the Alexandria City (Va.) School Board from 1997 to 2002. His work focuses on educational productivity and reform at the K–12 level and addresses the role that teacher pay structure plays in teacher recruitment and retention; the influence of human resource practices on teacher turnover and quality; and the role of community colleges in higher education. Dr. Goldhaber’s work has been published in leading journals and has appeared in major media outlets such as National Public Radio, Education Week, Washington Post, and USA Today.Jane Hannaway is a senior fellow and founding director of the Education Policy Center at the Urban Institute, where she oversees the work of the Center and is a member of the Institute’s senior management team. Dr. Hannaway is also the director and overall principal investigator of the National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER). An organizational sociologist, her work focuses on the effects of education reforms on student outcomes as well as on school policies and practices. Her recent research is heavily focused on the effects of various accountability policies and issues associated with teacher labor markets. She has written or edited seven books and numerous articles in education and management journals. Dr. Hannaway previously served on the faculty of Columbia, Princeton, and Stanford universities. She has held several national positions and currently serves on the National Academy Committee on Value-Added Methodology for Instructional Improvement, Program Evaluation and Accountability.

From the Back Cover

"Goldhaber and Hannaway provide a straightforward, yet provocative overview of the fundamental paradigm shifts that will be necessary for a high-achieving American teaching profession to become a reality. Creating a New Teaching Profession serves as a modern-day guidepost for anyone working on these important issues." --Eli Broad, Founder, The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation "This new volume by Goldhaber and Hannaway could not be more timely or important. They argue convincingly that nothing less than the continued economic preeminence of the nation rests on our ability to fix how we staff the classrooms of our public schools. Some of the authors will enrage you and others will inspire you, but only the clueless will fail to be motivated by what these scholars are pressing us to do: remake how we select, train, and reward our teachers." --Michael Casserly, Executive Director, Council of the Great City Schools "We will build a first-class public education system only if we build first-class systems for recruiting, developing, and retaining exceptional talent at every level of the system. This volume is an invaluable resource to those wishing a clear and comprehensive discussion of innovative strategies we might employ in order to embrace this challenge." --Wendy Kopp, Founder and CEO, Teach For America "With this book, Dan Goldhaber, Jane Hannaway, and the contributing authors encourage all of us to think differently about how we recruit, compensate, develop, and retain teachers. The ideas presented are thought provoking and timely, as those of us who care deeply about public education--and particularly the education of low-income and minority students—are grappling with how to get talented teachers to the schools that need them the most. I recommend this book to superintendents, state policymakers, and anyone else who is looking for 'outside the box' thinking on human capital management in education." --John Podesta, President and CEO, Center for American Progress "Teachers matter. That is the intuition of almost everyone who has been a student. An explosion of high-quality research in the last decade has taken us beyond intuition to quantify the degree to which teachers matter and to specify associations between characteristics of teachers, the conditions of their employment, and educational outcomes for students. The picture of current realities is not pretty and the implications for policy and practice are staggering. This is the book to read if you want to get up to speed on research on teacher quality and what it might mean for education reform." —Grover "Russ" Whitehurst, Director, Brown Center on Education Policy, The Brookings Institution

From the Inside Flap

"Goldhaber and Hannaway provide a straightforward, yet provocative overview of the fundamental paradigm shifts that will be necessary for a high-achieving American teaching profession to become a reality. Creating a New Teaching Profession serves as a modern-day guidepost for anyone working on these important issues." --Eli Broad, Founder, The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation "This new volume by Goldhaber and Hannaway could not be more timely or important. They argue convincingly that nothing less than the continued economic preeminence of the nation rests on our ability to fix how we staff the classrooms of our public schools. Some of the authors will enrage you and others will inspire you, but only the clueless will fail to be motivated by what these scholars are pressing us to do: remake how we select, train, and reward our teachers." --Michael Casserly, Executive Director, Council of the Great City Schools "We will build a first-class public education system only if we build first-class systems for recruiting, developing, and retaining exceptional talent at every level of the system. This volume is an invaluable resource to those wishing a clear and comprehensive discussion of innovative strategies we might employ in order to embrace this challenge." --Wendy Kopp, Founder and CEO, Teach For America "With this book, Dan Goldhaber, Jane Hannaway, and the contributing authors encourage all of us to think differently about how we recruit, compensate, develop, and retain teachers. The ideas presented are thought provoking and timely, as those of us who care deeply about public education--and particularly the education of low-income and minority students are grappling with how to get talented teachers to the schools that need them the most. I recommend this book to superintendents, state policymakers, and anyone else who is looking for 'outside the box' thinking on human capital management in education." --John Podesta, President and CEO, Center for American Progress "Teachers matter. That is the intuition of almost everyone who has been a student. An explosion of high-quality research in the last decade has taken us beyond intuition to quantify the degree to which teachers matter and to specify associations between characteristics of teachers, the conditions of their employment, and educational outcomes for students. The picture of current realities is not pretty and the implications for policy and practice are staggering. This is the book to read if you want to get up to speed on research on teacher quality and what it might mean for education reform." Grover "Russ" Whitehurst, Director, Brown Center on Education Policy, The Brookings Institution

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Publisher
Urban Institute Press,U.S.
Publication date
2009
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0877667624
ISBN 13 
9780877667629
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
348