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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Ingersoll, Richard M.; May, Henry – Consortium for Policy Research in Education, 2011
This study examines and compares the recruitment and retention of minority and White elementary and secondary teachers and attempts to empirically ground the debate over minority teacher shortages. The data we analyze are from the National Center for Education Statistics' nationally representative Schools and Staffing Survey and its longitudinal…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Schools, Poverty, Educational Research, Teacher Persistence
Ingersoll, Richard M.; May, Henry – Consortium for Policy Research in Education, 2010
This study examines the magnitude, destinations, and determinants of the departures of mathematics and science teachers from public schools. The data are from the National Center for Education Statistics' nationally representative Schools and Staffing Survey and its longitudinal supplement, the Teacher Follow-up Survey. Our analyses show that…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Teacher Persistence, Labor Turnover, Science Teachers
Ingersoll, Richard M. – Consortium for Policy Research in Education, 2007
This issue of CPRE Policy Briefs summarizes the findings on issues related to teacher quality in the chapter by the author in the book, "The State of Education Policy Research" (Cohen, Fuhrman, Mosher, Eds., 2007). This report also draws on discussions that took place during a summer, 2006, policy briefing on teacher labor-market issues held in…
Descriptors: Teacher Shortage, Teacher Effectiveness, Knowledge Base for Teaching, Teacher Qualifications
Ingersoll, Richard M. – Consortium for Policy Research in Education, 2007
Across the educational systems of the world, few issues receive more attention than the problem of ensuring that elementary- and secondary-school classrooms are staffed with adequately qualified teachers. Even in nations where students routinely score high on international exams, the issue of teacher quality is the subject of concern. It is widely…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, Teacher Recruitment, Teacher Effectiveness