Comprehensive Teacher Induction: Systems for Early Career Learning
This book examines how teacher induction systems located within five countries shape the early career learning of beginning teachers.
California's Teaching Force: Key Issues and Trends 2002 (Summary)
This summary report, produced by the Center for the Future of Teaching and Learning at WestEd, provides data and projections on the teacher shortage in California and the continuing concentration of the state's underprepared teachers in schools serving poor and minority students.
Strengthening California's Teacher Information System
This report, written by Camille Esch, Patrick Shields, and Viki Young for the Center for the Future of Teaching and Learning at WestEd, argues that California needs improved coordination of separate agency efforts to link these datasets.
Voices from La Frontera: Study of School Districts Along the United States/Mexico Border
School board associations in four states — California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas — commissioned this broad-based report about K-12 education along La Frontera, the United States/Mexico border, to identify common issues and questions facing the region's school districts.
The Learning Return on Our Educational Technology Investment: A Review of Findings from Research
For educators and policymakers who want to learn from the research and experience of others about how to make their technology investment a wise one.
An Enormous Untapped Potential: A Study of the Feasibility of Using National Board for Professional Teaching Standards Certification
This report explores the feasibility of using the teacher assessment and certification process of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards as the centerpiece of a comprehensive strategy to improve the professional culture and quality of teaching in low-performing schools. Using data...