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There is broad agreement among researchers across a wide range of disciplines that early education can give children a powerful start on the path that leads to college and career success. Early learning professionals need what any savvy businessperson wants for his or her company—a motivated, skilled, quality workforce. While recent studies have highlighted several obstacles to building a high-quality early childhood workforce, another points to promising models in four states.
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Do teachers, on average, continue to improve in their effectiveness as they gain experience in the teaching profession? This review of research finds that teaching experience is, on average, positively associated with student achievement gains throughout a teacher’s career, especially in collaborative school environments.
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This brief summarizes the key findings from a critical review of the relevant research to determine whether teachers, on average, improve in their effectiveness as they gain experience in the teaching profession. A renewed look at this research is warranted due to advances in research methods and data systems that match student data with individual teachers and have allowed researchers to more accurately answer this question.
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Teachers, on average, increase their effectiveness as they gain experience, and this improvement continues in the second and often third decade of their careers. This is a key finding from a comprehensive review of 30 studies analyzing the effect of teaching experience on student outcomes.
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States are seeking remedies to the shortage of teachers and the increasing need to recruit and retain teachers in underserved rural and urban communities and in specific subject areas. Forgivable loans and service scholarships are two promising solutions, especially given the high level of student debt.
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By Linda Darling-Hammond and Steve Barr | This was a year of good news and bad news in California’s schools. Faster-than-expected infusions of new funding under the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) allowed many districts to replace teachers and programs lost during the Great Recession. However, as the school year opened last August, districts around California scrambled to hire qualified teachers, and many came up short.
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Loan forgiveness and service scholarships are two promising approaches to attracting and keeping teachers in the profession. This brief looks at existing research on these programs and finds that financial assistance that meaningfully offsets the cost of professional preparation can be effective at recruiting and retaining high-quality professionals into fields and communities where educators are most needed.
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By Roberta Furger and David Robertson | School districts and county offices of education estimate they will need to hire about 22,000 new teachers for the 2016–17 school year. These projections, part of a multiyear rebuilding of the state’s teaching force, are a good sign. There’s just one problem: California is not preparing enough new teachers to meet the projected need. Even with re-entrants and an increase in out-of-state recruits, districts are experiencing shortfalls they cannot easily address.
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As California embarks on an ambitious journey to raise standards for student learning and rethink nearly every aspect of its educational system, one of the state’s most pressing challenges is hiring and retaining well-prepared, high-quality teachers who can teach the challenging new skills our society demands. This is especially true as the state faces emerging teacher shortages.
Linda Darling-HammondRoberta C. FurgerPatrick M. ShieldsLeib Sutcher
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After many years of teacher layoffs in California, school districts are using an influx of new k–12 funding to hire again. However, the supply of teachers has not kept pace with the increased demand. This report examines shortage indicators, discusses their impact on students, analyzes factors that influence teacher supply and demand in California and nationally, and recommends policies to ensure an adequate supply of fully prepared teachers where they are needed.
