TQ Resources

Teaching/Teacher Quality

Center Releases Report on Teaching Quality Progress in the Southeast (BestTQ Vol. 1, No. 9, Feb. 2002)

Doing What Matters Most: Investing in Quality Teaching (A follow-up report to What Matters Most, November 1997)

Ensuring Teacher Quality (A report from the 2001 Teachers Network Policy Institute)

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)

How Do Teachers Learn to Teach Effectively? Quality Indicators from Quality Schools (A Report to the Rockefeller Foundation from Just for the Kids and the Southeast Center for Teaching Quality)

Minorities Miss Quality Teachers: Black Schools Lack Senior Educators (an article from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, May 2004, free registration required)

Public Opinion on Teaching Quality (2003)

SECTQ's Response to the Secretary's Second Annual Report on Teacher Quality (2003)

Some Plain Talk on Quality Teaching (An Interview with Barnett Berry)

Solving the Dilemmas of Teacher Supply, Demand, and Standards: How We Can Ensure a Competent, Caring, and Qualified Teacher for Every Child (A report by Linda Darling-Hammond for the National Commission on Teaching and America's Future, 2002)

Taking Action to Improve Teaching Quality: Addressing Shortcomings in the Teaching Commission Report

Teacher Leadership for Teaching Quality: The Teachers Network Policy Institute Model (BestTQ Vol. 2, No. 5, Oct. 2002)

Teacher Quality and Student Achievement: A Review of State Policy Evidence (A report by Linda Darling-Hammond for the Center for the Study of Teaching and Policy, December 1999)

Teaching Quality in the Southeast: A Call for Regional Action (January 2000)

Teaching Quality in the Southeast: Meeting the Challenges (February 2002)

The Relationship Between Measures of Teacher Quality and Student Achievement: The Case of Vaughn Elementary (A report from the Consortium for Policy Research in Education, April 2002)

Wanted: A National Teacher Supply Policy for Education: The Right Way to Meet the "Highly Qualified Teacher" Challenge (A report by Linda Darling-Hammond and Gary Sykes, September 2003)

What Governors Should Know and Do about Teacher and Teaching Quality (CTQ develops "Top Ten" lists for Hunt Institute, December 2002)

What it Means to be a “Highly Qualified” Teacher (By Barnett Berry)