Creating a New Teaching Profession

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Urban Institute Press
November 2009
Edited by: Dan Goldhaber, Jane Hannaway

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“Improving teacher quality is a necessary—indeed, the key—ingredient for improving our nation’s schools,” the editors of Creating a New Teaching Profession conclude. But putting this advice into practice may require radical reforms in the way schools attract, retain, evaluate, and develop teachers. The scholars and practitioners in this book go beyond empirical research to offer private sector lessons and innovative reforms to jolt the teaching profession from complacency.

The book includes chapters by CRPE's Paul Hill (Chapter 7. "Consequences of Instructional Technology for Human Resource Needs in Education"), and Michael DeArmond (Chapter 4. "Zooming In and Zooming Out: Rethinking School District Human Resource Management," with Kathryn L. Shaw, and Patrick M. Wright).

Edited by Dan Goldhaber and Jane Hannaway, Creating a New Teaching Profession is available from the Urban Institute Press.

Creating a New Teaching Profession will be the subject of a Book Forum, Promise and Pitfalls: Creating a World-Class Teaching Profession, hosted by the Urban Institute on Monday, April 19, 2010. Panelists Joel Klein, Chancellor of New York City Schools, Randi Weingarten, AFT President, David Monk, Dean of Penn State School of Education, and Andrew J. Rotherham, Co-Founder and Partner of Bellwether Education, will respond to the bold new approaches posed by the book's contributing scholars and weigh in on the practical and political promise and pitfalls of these reforms. Find out more about the event here.