through 8 for conducting research on teacher effectiveness that uses value-added models because (1) elementary school teachers …

In 2008, Congress created the Teacher Quality Partnership Grant Program to fund alternative training programs that draw …-year supervised residency under the guidance of a full-time teacher. …

Comprehensive teacher induction provides novice teachers with carefully selected and trained full-time mentors, as well …-scale randomized controlled study of the effects of two comprehensive teacher induction programs. Intensive mentoring and professional … development for teachers just entering the profession did not increase teacher retention or generate any significant improvements …

substantial movements beneath the surface. The US and the UK underwent a process of income polarisation. For the study of mobility …, stochastic kernels are used, because standard approaches based on mobility indices and transition matrices, which group persons … into income classes of arbitrary size, lead to misleading conclusions. The measures attribute greater mobility to Germany …