Creating a new teaching profession
By: edited by Dan Goldhaber and Jane Hannaway.
Contributors: Goldhaber, Daniel D.; Hannaway, Jane.
Publisher: Urban Institute Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 335
ISBN-13: 9780877667629
Subjects: Academic achievement -- United States; Effective teaching -- United States; Educational productivity -- United States; School improvement programs -- United States
Table of contents: title: Contents; title: Why focus on human capital systems in K-12 and what we might learn from other countries or the private sector; title: Overview; title: Dan Goldhaber and Jane Hannaway; title: Education for the third industrial revolution; title: Alan S. Blinder; title: Human capital policy and the quality of the teacher workforce; title: Sean P. Corcoran; title: Zooming in and zooming out: rethinking school district human resource management; title: Michael M. Dearmond, Kathryn L. Shaw, and Patrick M. Wright; title: Lessons from abroad: exploring cross-country differences in teacher development systems and what they mean for U.S. policy; title: Dan Goldhaber; title: Reform ideas; title: The human capital challenge: toward a 21st-century teaching profession; title: Frederick M. Hess; title: Consequences of instructional technology for human resource needs in education; title: Paul T. Hill; title: Teacher deselection; title: Eric A. Hanushek; title: The estimation of teacher value added as a determinant of performance pay; title: Steven G. Rivkin; title: Modernizing teacher retirement benefit systems; title: Robert M. Costrell, Richard W. Johnson, and Michael J. Podgursky; title: Investing in human capital through teacher professional development; title: Jennifer King Rice; title: Politics of education reform/prospects for the teaching profession; title: Reactions from an education school dean; title: David H. Monk; title: Reactions from an urban school superintendent; title: Joel I. Klein; title: Reactions from a teachers' union leader; title: Randi Weingarten; title: Reactions from an education policy wonk; title: Andrew J. Rotherham; title: Conclusion; title: Dan Goldhaber and Jane Hannaway.