Archived: Linda Darling-Hammond Presentation (MSPowerPoint)

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Archived Information
Demand for Elementary and Secondary
Teachers(Public and private K-12, with
alternative projections 1982 to 2007)
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Difficulty in Filling Teaching Vacancies(Percent
of schools with teaching vacancies, by field, and
percent who found them difficult to fill)
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Average annual earnings in the previous year
(1991)
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Job Satisfaction of Current and Former
Teachers (Percentage of respondents who were
somewhat or very satisfied)
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Qualifications of Newly Hired Public School
Teachers, 1993-1994(Type of state license in
main assignment field)
1Newly hired teachers include all those hired by
schools in 1993-94, excluding those who moved or
transferred from one school to another. A
substandard license is an emergency, temporary,
provisional, or alternative license issued to
someone who has not met the requirements for a
standard license. A probationary license is a
license issued to a new teacher who has met all
requirements and is completing an initial
probationary period. Source Schools and
Staffing Surveys, 1990-91 and 1993-94, Public
School Teacher Questionnaires. Tabulations
conducted by the National Commission on Teaching
Americas Future. 1Newly hired teachers include
all those hired by schools in 1993-94, excluding
those who moved or transferred from one school to
another. A substandard license is an emergency,
temporary, provisional, or alternative license
issued to someone who has not met the
requirements for a standard license. A
probationary license is a license issued to a new
teacher who has met all requirements and is
completing an initial probationary
period. Source Schools and Staffing Surveys,
1990-91 and 1993-94, Public School Teacher
Questionnaires. Tabulations conducted by the
National Commission on Teaching Americas
Future.
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Slipshod Recruitment

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• Some districts do not hire the best-qualified
  applicants for
• teaching positions because their own procedures
  keep them from doing so. Critical problems
  include
• cumbersome screening processes that create
  bottlenecks
• unprofessional treatment of applicants
• hiring decisions delayed until the school year
  starts
• teacher assignment and transfer policies
• obstacles to teacher mobility, i.e., salary
  caps for veteran teachers
• lack of licensing reciprocity among states
  and
• the inability to transfer pension benefits
  from state to state.

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Trends in Out-of-Field Teaching(Percent of
public high school teachers in each fieldwithout
a major or minor in that field)
Source Schools and staffing surveys, 1987-88,
1990-91, and 1993-94. Teacher questionnaire.
Tabulations by R. Ingersoll for the National
Commission on Teaching Americas
Future.
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Cumulative Effects of Teacher Effectiveness Studen
t test scores (5th grade math) by effectiveness
level of teachers over a three-year period, for
two metropolitan school systems
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Influence of Teacher Qualifications on Student
AchievementProportions of Explained Variance in
Math Test Score Gains (from Grades 3 to 5) Due
To
Home and Family Factors parent education,
income, language background, race
location. Teacher Qualifications licensing,
examination scores, experience. Class
Size Developed from data presented in Ronald F.
Ferguson, Paying for public education New
evidence of how and why money matters, Harvard
Journal on Legislation, 28 (Summer 1991), pp.
465-498.
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Qualifications of Secondary School Mathematics
and Science Teachers, by school racial
composition
Source Jeannie Oakes, Multiplying Inequalities
The Effects of Race, Social Class, and Tracing on
Opportunities to
Learn Mathematics and Science. Santa Monica, CA
RAND Corporation, 1990, p. 61.
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Qualifications of High School Teachers of
teachers without at least a minor in the field
they teach, by school poverty level
Source U.S. Department of Education, Schools and
Staffing Survey, School and Teacher
Questionnaires, 1990-91. Published in Teacher
Supply, Teacher Qualifications, and Teacher
Turnover, 1990-91. Washington, DC National
Center for Education Statistics, 1995, p. 26.
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AVERAGE RETENTION RATESFOR DIFFERENT PATHWAYS
INTO TEACHING
Estimated cost per 3rd year teacher. Estimates
based on costs of teacher preparation,
recruitment, induction, and replacement due to
attrition.