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Master, Benjamin K.; Mihaly, Kata; Schweig, Jonathan; Berglund, Tiffany; Hu, Lynn – RAND Corporation, 2023
Teach For America (TFA) is an organization that aims to address educational inequity in part through a program of training and placing teachers in U.S. K-12 public schools that have the highest proportions of high-poverty students. In this report, the authors quantify the impacts of Teach For America Indianapolis (TFA Indy) on student and school…
Descriptors: Teacher Recruitment, Alternative Teacher Certification, Beginning Teachers, Disadvantaged
Kaufman, Julia H.; Master, Benjamin K.; Huguet, Alice; Yoo, Paul Youngmin; Faxon-Mills, Susannah; Schulker, David; Grimm, Geoffrey E. – RAND Corporation, 2020
TNTP (formerly The New Teacher Project), an organization committed to ending educational inequities by promoting the recruitment, training, and retention of high-quality teachers and school leaders, implemented its Teacher Effectiveness and Certification (TEACh) initiative in three urban school districts. Through TEACh, TNTP works with school…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, School Districts, Teacher Effectiveness, Alternative Teacher Certification
Master, Benjamin K.; Steiner, Elizabeth D.; Doss, Christopher Joseph; Acheson-Field, Hannah – RAND Corporation, 2020
The contributions of assistant principals (APs) toward improving student and staff outcomes has not yet been a focus of much empirical research. In recent years, as the increased focus on improving student outcomes has shifted expectations and APs are now expected to perform some instructional leadership tasks, such as coaching and evaluating…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Assistant Principals, Instructional Leadership, Leadership Training
Master, Benjamin K.; Steiner, Elizabeth D.; Doss, Christopher Joseph; Acheson-Field, Hannah – RAND Corporation, 2020
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the Pathway to Leadership in Urban Schools (PLUS) program as implemented in a large urban school district. The program was designed to select and develop school assistant principals (APs) to be more effective at instructional leadership. The study spanned four school years, 2015/16 through 2018/19, and…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Assistant Principals, Instructional Leadership, Leadership Training
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Huguet, Alice; Doss, Christopher Joseph; Master, Benjamin K.; Unlu, Fatih; Sousa, Jessica L.; Christianson, Karen; Baker, Garrett – RAND Corporation, 2021
The authors of this report offer an in-depth analysis of the Teacher Effectiveness and Certification (TEACh) program, an alternative teacher preparation program intended to train diverse cohorts of high-quality teaching candidates to fill hard-to-staff positions. They follow three TEACh programs in different regions of the United States, which…
Descriptors: Alternative Teacher Certification, Program Implementation, Program Evaluation, Teacher Recruitment
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Huguet, Alice; Doss, Christopher Joseph; Master, Benjamin K.; Unlu, Fatih; Sousa, Jessica L.; Christianson, Karen; Baker, Garrett – RAND Corporation, 2021
TNTP (formerly The New Teacher Project) is committed to ending educational inequities by promoting the recruitment, training, and retention of high-quality teachers and school leaders. The U.S. Department of Education's Supporting Effective Educator Development (SEED) grant has funded TNTP to implement the Teacher Effectiveness and Certification…
Descriptors: Alternative Teacher Certification, Grants, Teacher Recruitment, Teacher Persistence