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This paper reviews the literature on teacher education, certification, and hiring, showing that there are great differences in the effectiveness of teachers in public schools. Better teachers are not necessarily those with more education and more experience, the two traditional variables used when determining salaries.
The quality of education that students receive in public schools is becoming an increasing concern for parents, taxpayers, politicians, and business leaders. These stakeholders are asking for greater accountability as measured by actual results rather than by input and process variables. In response, researchers have recently measured the effects of numerous teacher variables on student knowledge and skills.
This paper reviews the literature on teacher education, certification, and hiring, showing that there are great differences in the effectiveness of teachers in public schools. Better teachers are not necessarily those with more education and more experience, the two traditional variables used when determining salaries. The paper recommends new policies that will potentially enhance the impact that teachers and school administrators have on the academic achievement of public school students.
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Rodney A. Clifton
Rodney A. Clifton is Professor of Sociology of Education at the University of Manitoba, where he has been teaching since1979. He was born in Jasper, Alberta, and he taught at Memorial University for six years before moving to Manitoba. Dr. Clifton has a B.Ed. and a M.Ed. from the University of Alberta, a Ph.D. in Sociology of Education from the University of Toronto, and a Fil.Dir. in Comparative Education from the University of Stockholm. Over the last thirty years, he has published more than ninety research articles and five books and monographs. Dr. Clifton has won a number of research awards: the Spencer Fellowship from the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement; the R.W.B. Jackson Research Award from the Canadian Educational Researchers' Association; and both the Edward Sheffield Award and the Distinguished Research Award from the Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education.… Read more Read Less…
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