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Direct linkCarroll, Curtis Andrew – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This non-experimental study examined the influence of an initiative that High Risk School District (pseudonym) implemented to offset the effect of low student academic performance in low performing-schools. The study attempted to answer the following research question: Does having a Teach For America (TFA) teacher have an influence on a student's…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Low Income, Teacher Influence, Mathematics Teachers
Download full textHansen, Michael; Backes, Benjamin; Brady, Victoria; Xu, Zeyu – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), 2015
A sizeable body of evidence has documented the effectiveness of Teach For America (TFA) corps members at raising the mathematics test scores of their students, though little is known about the program's impact at the school level. TFA's recent placement strategy in the Miami-Dade County Public Schools, in which large numbers of TFA corps members…
Descriptors: Alternative Teacher Certification, Public Schools, Teacher Effectiveness, Public School Teachers
Office of Assessment, Research, and Data Analysis, Miami-Dade County Public Schools, 2013
This report examines the placement of Teach for America (TFA) teachers and examines their impact on the learning gains of their students during 2012-13. TFA is an organization that recruits and trains recent college graduates/professionals to teach for two years in selected communities. Sets of eligible TFA teachers were identified in 2012-13…
Descriptors: Teacher Recruitment, Alternative Teacher Certification, Beginning Teachers, Teacher Placement
Office of Assessment, Research, and Data Analysis, Miami-Dade County Public Schools, 2013
This report examines the placement of Teacher for America (TFA) teachers and examines their impact on the learning gains of their students during 2011-12. TFA is an organization that recruits and trains recent college graduates/professionals to teach for two years in selected communities. Sets of eligible TFA teachers were identified in 2011-12,…
Descriptors: Teacher Recruitment, Alternative Teacher Certification, Beginning Teachers, Teacher Placement
Peer reviewedDarling-Hammond, Linda; Holtzman, Deborah J.; Gatlin, Su Jin; Heilig, Julian Vasquez – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2005
Recent debates about the utility of teacher education have raised questions about whether certified teachers are, in general, more effective than those who have not met the testing and training requirements for certification, and whether some candidates with strong liberal arts backgrounds might be at least as effective as teacher education…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Teacher Certification, Teaching Experience, Teacher Effectiveness
