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Berry, Barnett – Center for Teaching Quality, 2010
Over the last decade, policy and business leaders have come to know what parents have always known: teachers make the greatest difference to student achievement. With new statistical and analytical methods used by a wide range of researchers, evidence has been mounting that teacher quality can account for a large share of variance in student test…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Achievement Gains, Economically Disadvantaged, Academic Achievement
Berry, Barnett; Daughtrey, Alesha; Wieder, Alan – Center for Teaching Quality, 2009
Over the last decade, policy and business leaders have come to know what parents have always known: teachers make the greatest difference to student achievement. With new statistical and analytical methods used by a wide range of researchers, evidence has been mounting that teacher quality can account for a large share of variance in student test…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Teacher Effectiveness, Achievement Gains, Academic Achievement
Berry, Barnett; Daughtrey, Alesha; Wieder, Alan – Center for Teaching Quality, 2009
Over the last decade, policy and business leaders have come to know what parents have always known: teachers are the largest school-based factor in student achievement. Yet not all schools have equal access to the most effective teachers. High-needs schools that serve large proportions of economically disadvantaged and minority students are more…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Economically Disadvantaged, Academic Achievement, Teacher Collaboration
Berry, Barnett – 1985
A case study of teacher attrition in one southeastern metropolitan school system that employs approximately 4,000 teachers was undertaken to determine which teachers left, why, and where they went. Of the 210 teachers in the system who resigned during the 1983-84 academic year, 16 percent were K-6, 13 percent were special education/speech, 13…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Elementary Secondary Education, Faculty Mobility, School Statistics