Teacher qualification and the achievement gap in early primary grades.

dc.creator	Donald Easton-Brooks
dc.creator	Alan Davis
dc.date	2009-08-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-08-12T11:21:43Z
dc.date.available	2015-08-12T11:21:43Z
dc.identifier	1068-2341
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/8e18ad8833e9485ba4befcfe72c481bf
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/29138
dc.description	Title I of the No Child Left Behind Act (P.L. 107-110, 115 Stat. 1245, 2002) holds schools accountable for reducing the academic achievement gap between the different ethnic groups and requires elementary school teachers to have at least a bachelors degree and a state certification. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship of the qualification requirement of NCLB to the goal of reducing the academic achievement gap. The study found that students with a certified teacher for most of their early school experience scored higher in reading than students who did not have a certified teacher. In addition, certification was associated with slightly narrowing the academic gap between African American and European American students across early elementary grades.
dc.language	English
dc.language	Spanish
dc.language	Portuguese
dc.publisher	Arizona State University
dc.relation	http://epaa.asu.edu/ojs/article/view/17
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1068-2341
dc.rights	CC BY
dc.source	Education Policy Analysis Archives, Vol 17, p 15 (2009)
dc.subject	equity
dc.subject	teacher certification
dc.subject	teacher qualifications
dc.subject	student achievement
dc.subject	reading
dc.subject	value-added
dc.subject	Early Childhood Longitudinal Study.
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.title	Teacher qualification and the achievement gap in early primary grades.
dc.type	article