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Webcast Overview

Addressing the inequitable distribution of teachers is arguably the most important teacher quality issue today. Research consistently indicates that low-performing and/or high-poverty urban and rural schools are staffed with inexperienced and underqualified teachers at higher rates than their high-performing, low-poverty school counterparts. The No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act, the 2001 reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, certainly has helped to keep this issue visible. The inequitable distribution of teachers will continue to be an area of focus through the implementation of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009.

This webcast, facilitated by Candace Crawford, senior associate at The Education Trust, will bring together experts and practitioners to discuss the existing research and strategies that address the inequitable distribution of teachers. Presenters include Judy Wurtzel, advisor to the secretary, U.S. Department of Education; Cortney Rowland, senior policy associate at the TQ Center; and Charles Clotfelter, Ph.D. , professor of public policy, economics, and law at Duke University. The presentations will include an overview of the research and information about the requirements and potential funding through ARRA that can be used to address the inequitable distribution of teachers. In addition, the webcast will include a discussion of useful resources from the TQ Center.

A pre-webcast presentation by Eric Hirsch, director of special projects at The New Teacher Center, will provide participants with information about how working conditions can help or hinder teacher distribution as well as examples of how some states and districts have addressed the issue of working conditions to improve the distribution of high-quality teachers. In addition, Jane Coggshall, Ph.D., research associate at the TQ Center, will discuss the equitable distribution research that Delaware has been conducting in collaboration with the Mid-Atlantic Comprehensive Center.

For additional information about this webcast, please contact Kathleen Hayes at kathleen.hayes@learningpt.org.