TY - BOOK AU - Strong,Michael TI - The highly qualified teacher: what is teacher quality and how do we measure it SN - 0807752258 AV - LB3051 .S882 2011 U1 - 371.102 22 PY - 2011///] CY - New York PB - Teachers College Press KW - Educational accountability KW - United States KW - Teacher effectiveness KW - Academic achievement N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-142) and index; The occupation of teaching -- What do we mean by teacher quality? -- Teacher quality research -- Measuring teacher quality -- Experiments in the identification of successful teachers -- Conclusion: Implications from the evidence N2 - Provides an accessible overview of the research related to teacher quality, and introduces a new method for evaluating teachers based on extensive fieldwork in schools. --from publisher description ER -