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Creating a new teaching profession / edited by Dan Goldhaber and Jane Hannaway.

Van Pelt Library LB1062.6 .C74 2009
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Goldhaber, Daniel D.
Hannaway, Jane
James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Academic achievement--United States.
Academic achievement.
Educational productivity.
United States.
Effective teaching--United States.
Effective teaching.
Educational productivity--United States.
School improvement programs--United States.
School improvement programs.
Physical Description:
xi, 335 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Place of Publication:
Washington, D.C. : Urban Institute Press, 2009.
Contents:
Contents
Why focus on human capital systems in K-12 and what we might learn from other countries or the private sector
Overview
Dan Goldhaber and Jane Hannaway
Education for the third industrial revolution
Alan S. Blinder
Human capital policy and the quality of the teacher workforce
Sean P. Corcoran
Zooming in and zooming out: rethinking school district human resource management
Michael M. Dearmond, Kathryn L. Shaw, and Patrick M. Wright
Lessons from abroad: exploring cross-country differences in teacher development systems and what they mean for U.S. policy
Dan Goldhaber
Reform ideas
The human capital challenge: toward a 21st-century teaching profession
Frederick M. Hess
Consequences of instructional technology for human resource needs in education
Paul T. Hill
Teacher deselection
Eric A. Hanushek
The estimation of teacher value added as a determinant of performance pay
Steven G. Rivkin
Modernizing teacher retirement benefit systems
Robert M. Costrell, Richard W. Johnson, and Michael J. Podgursky
Investing in human capital through teacher professional development
Jennifer King Rice
Politics of education reform/prospects for the teaching profession
Reactions from an education school dean
David H. Monk
Reactions from an urban school superintendent
Joel I. Klein
Reactions from a teachers' union leader
Randi Weingarten
Reactions from an education policy wonk
Andrew J. Rotherham
Conclusion
Dan Goldhaber and Jane Hannaway.
Local Notes:
Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.
ISBN:
9780877667629
0877667624
OCLC:
455871446
Publisher Number:
99937242455

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