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• A Quality Teacher in Every Classroom: Improving Teacher Quality and Enhancing the Profession
  A position paper on the enhancement of the teaching profession from the White House. Links provided to related sites, which include resources such as tools for teachers in specific ares of instruction.
• Alternative Teacher Certification--An Overview
  Increasing teacher shortages have been responsible for the development of alternative strategies for meeting the demand. The National Center for Education Information explores some of these alternate routes to teacher education and certification.
• Better Use of Resources
  Better Uses of Resources by Allan Odden Professor of Educational Administration University of Wisconsin-Madison The California Association of School Business Officials (CASBO) empowers individuals and organizations involved in school business through leadership, training, legislative and regulatory advocacy, communication, mentoring and research and development.
• Coaching and Mentoring First-Year and Student Teachers
  India J. Podsen and Vicki M.
• Dealing with Difficult Teachers
  This book, by Todd Whitaker, suggests tips and strategies for school leaders who are seeking to improve communication with their staff. The focus is on using positive means to diminish negative or difficult behaviors, but also provides suggestions for dealing with the situation when nothing seems to work.
• Formula Funding of Schools
  Drawing from new policies in Broward County (FL), Cincinnati (OH), Edmonton (Alberta, Canada), Pittsburgh (PA) and Seattle (WA), CPRE researcher Allan Odden has analyzed the school-based funding formulas in five large urban districts in North America. The paper was published as a chapter in a new UNESCO book (Ross & Levacic, 1998) on such formulas in four countries: Australia, England, New Zealand and the above five districts in North America.
• Higher Education Challenge Grants Program
  Challenge Grants help institutions and organizations secure financial support to improve programs. The Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CREES)solicits applications for its Higher Education Challenge Grants Program (HEC).
• Improving Achievement in Low Performing Schools: Key Results for School Leaders
  Resource review of text and keyt result areas for improving low performing schools.
• Lessons from History
  In this issue of Rethinking Schools Online (Volume 14, No. 3, Summer 2000, Lary Cuban and David B.
• Performance-Based State Licensure Systems
  At present, few state systems use a performance-based assessment as part of their licensing decision. However, the systems that they have in place can be useful guides to other states and to districts that are interested in creating performance assessment systems that measure one's actual teaching performance against a set of teaching standards.
• Recruiting Talented Americans into the Teaching Profession
  Strategies for attracting and recruiting qualified teachers, particularly in high-poverty communities and high-need subject areas such as science and mathematics.
• Teacher Quality Bulletin
  The National Council on Teacher Quality provides links to past issues of the Teacher Quality Bulletin.
• Trends and Issues: School Organization
  ERIC Clearinghouse on Educational Management Author: Larry Lashway Review of trends in school scheduling, reconfiguration of grade levesls, and initiatives to reduce class size.