This study examines and compares the recruitment, employment, and retention of minority and nonminority school teachers over the past quarter century. Results point to a persistent gap between the percentage of minority students and the percentage of minority teachers in the U.S. school system. This gap is not due to a failure to recruit new minority teachers, but rather due […]
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Study of Emerging Teacher Evaluation Systems
This study provides descriptive information on the design and early implementation of teacher evaluation systems in eight local school districts. This exploratory study is intended to help other districts and states learn from the experiences of these eight districts to inform future research on the effects of teacher evaluation systems on teacher professional practice and student performance. The study sample […]
Research and Practice in the Field of Early Mathematics Learning
This document details research on early mathematics learning for early childhood educators and strives to clarify instructional goals for early mathematics development. Geared toward preschool teachers, this document provides teachers with assessments that are objective, accurate, and valid and which can be used frequently to assess children’s skills in critical mathematics domains. The core components of number knowledge, spatial knowledge, […]
Early Childhood Math: Geometry, Patterns, Measurements, and Data Analysis
This practice guide summary and video are companion pieces to the Teaching Math to Young Children practice guide. The practice guide summary provides a brief overview of the five evidence-based recommendations included in the practice guide. The summary also provides examples of strategies teachers can use in the classroom that are aligned to these recommendations as well as the evidence […]
Developing Effective Fractions Instruction for Kindergarten Through 8th Grade
This 90-page document, Developing Effective Fractions Instruction for Kindergarten Through 8th Grade was created by the Institute of Educational Sciences to detail five instructional recommendations for teaching fractions. This guide can be utilized by teachers, coaches, and other educators to plan and teach lessons using the recommendations. Each recommendation includes a student work sample with a detailed explanation of the […]