
Reviews data on how early-career experience affects teacher effectiveness by subject, level, and distribution among high- and low-poverty schools. Calls for frontloading experience-based compensation, ensuring ongoing effectiveness, and even distribution.
August 1970
Geographic Focus: North America-United States

Children and Youth, Education and Literacy, Race and Ethnicity
Provides an overview of the European Union's policies and practices in promoting migrants' rights and equality, integration, social inclusion and cohesion, and education and training. Recommends ways for NGOs to address challenges and fill gaps.
August 1970
Geographic Focus: Europe

Analyzes the effectiveness of using salary differentials to help schools serving disadvantaged students attract and retain highly qualified teachers. Examines teachers' responses to salary incentives and school characteristics by qualifications.
August 1970
Geographic Focus: North America-United States (Southern)-North Carolina

Analyzes the correlation between a school's effectiveness as measured by student achievement value-add and its ability to recruit, retain, and develop high-quality teachers and remove others, with a focus on the principal's leadership effectiveness.
August 1970
Geographic Focus: North America / United States (Southern) / Florida;North America / United States (Southern) / Florida / Miami/Dade County / Miami

Computers and Technology, Education and Literacy
Provides an overview of information technology's potential to enable better assessments of student achievement. Outlines promising models for testing complex skills, cognition, and learning and for utilizing such assessments to improve instruction.
August 1970
Geographic Focus: North America-United States

Provides resources for facilitating discussions of a documentary on two elementary school principals' efforts to improve student achievement and implement reform. Includes sample agendas for viewing the full clip reel, individual clips, or the full film.
August 1970
Geographic Focus: North America-United States

Education and Literacy, Government Reform
Analyzes the factors that predict which teachers are likely to be laid off in Washington state in the current seniority-based system and which would likely be laid off in an effectiveness-based system. Considers implications for student achievement.
August 1970
Geographic Focus: North America-United States (Western)-Washington

Children and Youth, Education and Literacy, Race and Ethnicity
Presents ten objectives with action plans for improving access to quality education for Roma children, including collecting data, fighting racism, implementing desegregation policies, expanding access to preschool, and training bilingual teachers.
August 1970
Geographic Focus: Europe (Central), Europe