A Shared Responsibility: Staffing All High-Poverty, Low-Performing Schools with Effective Teachers and Administrators
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Web ArticleYear of Publication:
2005Abstract:
The Learning First Alliance has released a new framework that its members believe will ensure"that the nation's neediest students have access to effective teachers and school leaders." Titled "A Shared Responsibility: Staffing All High-Poverty, Low-Performing Schools with Effective Teachers and Administrators," the publication lays out a Framework for Action to address the central finding that "our nation's poor and minority students are least likely to be in classrooms and schools with the best teachers and administrators." A quote from the Introduction: "Yet we also understand that we can make little headway unless we accept a fundamental premise: We cannot solve the staffing problem simply by producing a greater number of teachers or by moving existing ones around. Educators are not troops recruited and deployed by some centralized authority, but rather professionals who respond to opportunities for employment within national, state and local labor markets. Our goal must be to abolish so-called 'hard-to-staff schools' by making today's high-poverty, low-performing schools the kinds of places where our best educators will want to work." The framework is the result of a collaborative effort among the Alliance's 12 member organizations, which represent most of the nation's major education associations. At this webpage, you'll find download links for the full report and an overview of the 8-part framework.
Learning First Alliance. (2005). A Shared Responsibility: Staffing All High-Poverty, Low-Performing Schools with Effective Teachers and Administrators. Learning First Alliance. Retrieved April 23, 2008, from http://www.learningfirst.org/publications/staffing/
