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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.