High-Needs Schools 

Recruiting and Retaining Quality Teachers for High-Needs Schools: Insights from NBCT Summits and Other Policy Initiatives (November 2007)

Supporting and Staffing High-Needs Schools: Recommendations from Washington’s National Board Certified Teachers (June 2007)

Closing Achievement Gaps and Staffing High-Needs Schools: Recommendations from Ohio’s National Board Certified Teachers (May 2007)

Supporting and Staffing High-Needs Schools: Recommendations from South Carolina’s National Board Certified Teachers (February 2007)

The Teachers That Oklahoma Students Deserve: Recommendations from National Board Certified Teachers and Administrators on How to Support and Staff High-Needs Schools (December 2006)

Transforming Teaching and Learning in Mobile: Understanding Reform in MCPSS Five Transformation Schools (April 2006)

Every Child Deserves Our Best: Recommendations from North Carolina's National Board Certified Teachers on How to Support and Staff High-Needs Schools (February 2006)

No Child Left Behind 

The Reauthorization of No Child Left Behind: Views from the Nation's Best Teachers (September 2007)

No Child Left Behind and the "Highly Qualified" Teacher: The Promise and the Possibilities (by Barnett Berry and Linda Darling-Hammond, October 2006)

Unfulfilled Promise: Ensuring High Quality Teachers for Our Nation's Students (August 2004) No Child Left Behind: A Status Report from Southeastern Schools

Unfulfilled Promise: Ensuring High Quality Teachers for Our Nation's Students (August 2004) No Child Left Behind: A Status Report from Southeastern Schools Extensive Findings

Professional Learning Communities

From Isolation to Collaboration: Promoting Teacher Leadership through PLCs (October 2008)

Recruitment and Retention

Recruiting and Retaining Teachers in Alabama: Educators on What It Will Take to Staff All Classrooms with Quality Teachers (February 2006)

Recruiting and Retaining National Board Certified Teachers in Hard-to-Staff, Low-Performing Schools: Silver Bullets or Smart Solutions (May 2005)

Recruiting Teachers for Hard-to-Staff Schools: Solutions for the Southeast and the Nation (January 2002)

Recruiting Teachers for Hard-to-Staff Schools: Solutions for North Carolina and the Nation (October 2001)

Strategic Management of Human Capital

The Strategic Management of Human Capital: Making the Smart Investments in Teachers and Principals (April 2009)

Teacher Compensation

Improving Student Learning Through Strategic Compensation: A TeacherSolutions Report from the Teacher Leaders of TLN-Kansas (July 2008)

Performance-Pay for Teachers: Designing a Systems that Students Deserve (April 2007)

Teacher Preparation

Strengthening State Teacher Licensure Standards to Advance Teaching Effectiveness (May 2010)

Teacher Preparation Cost Study: A Comparative Analysis of Select Alabama and National Programs (June 2004)

Teacher Residencies

Creating and Sustaining Urban Teacher Residencies: A New Way to Recruit, Prepare, and Retain Effective Teachers in High-Needs Districts (August 2008)

Urban Teacher Residency Models and Institutes of Higher Education: Implications for Teacher Preparation (August 2008)

Teaching Quality

Measuring What Matters: The Effects of National Board Certification on Advancing 21st Century Teaching and Learning (July 2008)