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  • Lee S. Shulman

    Senior Research Fellow
    Lee S. Shulman is the Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Teaching and Teacher Education Emeritus at the Stanford Graduate School of Education, President Emeritus of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, past president of the American Educational Research Association and a founder and past Co-director of the Institute for Research on Teaching at Michigan State University.

  • Marshall (Mike) Smith

    Senior Research Fellow
    Marshall (Mike) Smith was Under Secretary in the U.S. Department of Education from 1993 to 2000 and Acting Deputy Secretary from 1996 to 2000.

  • Deborah Stipek

    Senior Research Fellow
    Deborah Stipek is Professor of Education and (by courtesy) Psychology at Stanford University and has served as Dean of the Stanford Graduate School of Education.

  • Joan Talbert

    Senior Research Fellow
    Joan Talbert is Senior Research Scholar and Co-director Emeritus of the Center for Research on the Context of Teaching in Stanford University’s School of Education, which she co-founded in 1987.

  • Steve Tozer

    Senior Research Fellow
    Steve Tozer is Professor Emeritus and past University Scholar in Educational Policy Studies at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC), where he was founding Director of the UIC Center for Urban Education Leadership.

  • Guadalupe Valdés

    Senior Research Fellow
    Guadalupe Valdés is the Bonnie Katz Tenenbaum Professor of Education in the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University.

  • Tony Wagner

    Senior Research Fellow
    Tony Wagner served as founder and Co-director of the Change Leadership Group at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and was the first Innovation Education Fellow at Harvard’s Technology & Entrepreneurship Center. 

  • Roger P. Weissberg

    Senior Research Fellow
    Roger P. Weissberg is NoVo Foundation Endowed Chair in Social and Emotional Learning, Liberal Arts and Science Distinguished Professor, and Professor of Psychology and Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

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California’s Special Education Teacher Shortage

Feb 18 2020
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A severe special education teacher shortage threatens the ability to improve outcomes for students with disabilities, who often have the greatest needs but receive the least expert teachers. LPI researchers review the factors contributing to special education teacher turnover and provide evidence-based policy strategies aimed at resolving the shortage.
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Inequitable Opportunity to Learn: Student Access to Certified and Experienced Teachers

Feb 12 2020
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Access to fully certified and experienced teachers matters for student outcomes and achievement, yet many states have hired uncertified and inexperienced teachers to fill gaps created by persistent teacher shortages. These teachers are disproportionately found in schools with high enrollments of students of color, according to LPI analysis of the most recent U.S. Department of Education Civil Rights Data Collection, which has proposed cutting key data collection questions related to school funding and educator experience.
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Promising Models for Preparing a Diverse, High-Quality Early Childhood Workforce

Dec 10 2019
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The first years of a child’s life provide a foundation for long-term health and well-being. As states consider policy proposals to update credential or degree requirements for early childhood educators, they can look to promising programs and state policies that recruit and prepare diverse cohorts of educators to teach in early childhood education programs. This report includes case studies of distinct approaches offering innovative, affordable pathways to preparation for diverse candidates.