Staffing the nation’s schools with well-qualified teachers has long been a prominent issue in elementary and secondary education (Wayne and Youngs 2003). Mathematics and science teachers are of particular interest because mathematics and science are core subjects in both elementary and secondary public schools. These subjects continue to attract attention as the need for individuals entering th...

The shift to an earlier start in foreign language teaching Finland took place nationwide 2020. Both class teachers and subject faced a new situation. They would be children younger than before, or they completely for them. This article examines teachers’ conceptions of the skills qualities, including required skills, that are important teacher early teaching. data this study were gathered throu...

Drawing on analyses of a subset of teacher quality studies in which student outcomes were used as a dependent variable (Hess, 2001; Walsh, 2001), the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB; 2001) challenged traditional concepts of good teaching by emphasizing content mastery and verbal ability and downplaying the importance of pedagogy. In turn, the belief that pedagogy is a less powerful determinant o...

In this Research Retrospective, we review the results of several important studies of teacher quality released in 2007, highlighting 10 major findings that were pervasive among these studies. 1 Together, these findings can help to inform the considerations that policymakers must attend to as they seek to shape approaches that improve teaching and learning in our country's schools. The imperativ...

Over the past decade online learning initiatives have shown tremendous potential for broadening educational opportunities and for addressing local and regional shortages of highly qualified K–12 teachers. The Louisiana Algebra I Online initiative represents one type of online model than can address both the need for improving course offerings and for addressing teacher shortages. The goal of th...

Two concerns in US education are shortages of qualified math and science teachers and the feminization of teaching. I draw on the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 to identify a common reason for the two phenomena. Controlling for self-selection by a propensity score matching estimator and the Heckit, I find that the rigid pay structure for teachers, rather than the pay level, appea...