Kate WalshNational Council on Teacher Quality

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Teachers matter.

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Great teachers can accomplish miracles—but

there aren’t enough of them.

Source: NCTQ, based on estimates of Hanushek and others.

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Odds of random assignment of great teacher: One in seven

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Odds of random assignment of great teacher 5 years in a

row: 1 in 17,000

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For minorities, the odds are even worse.

Source: Illinois Education Research Council, 2005.

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For poor students as well.

Source: Illinois Education Research Council, 2005.

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We don’t tend to value the right things about teachers.

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Overwhelming research finds no value from master’s degrees.

Source: Ozdemir, M. and Stevenson, W., 2009 National Council on Teacher Quality

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What we wrongly value.

Source: NCTQ TR3 database, www.nctq.org/tr3

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Experience doesn’t matter as much as we think…or pay for.

Source: Hanushek and Rivkin, 2004 “How to Improve the Supply of High Quality Teachers.” Brookings.

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Source: The Hamilton Project, Brooking Institution

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We need to make tougher decisions about who earns tenure.

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By improving the overall quality of the teacher pool

(fewer weak teachers), the pay off would be

significant.

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Routinely denying tenure to the bottom 25 percent of all teachers would have a big

impact on student achievement at a fraction of the cost.

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We must attend to the TOP as well.