Teacher Quality
Teacher quality is the single most important factor in a student's academic performance. ETS's research, products and services support teacher performance and professional development.
Spotlight
ETS Innovations Explores Quality in Education
The Fall 2009 edition of ETS’s magazine discusses ways to create, measure and sustain quality.
Teacher Quality in a Changing Policy Landscape: Improvements in the Teacher Pool
A new study examines the relationship between improvements in the academic quality of America’s teaching force and the recent explosion of policy focus on improving teacher quality.
"i3 – invest. inspire. imagine." Symposium
ETS and Liberty Science Center launched an initiative encouraging more students to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) to increase global competitiveness.
Learning What Good Teachers Do
The more we learn about what makes a teacher effective, the better able we’ll be to improve teaching.
Qualified Teachers for At-Risk Schools: A National Imperative
Read the inaugural report of the National Partnership for Teaching in At-Risk Schools, which is working to ensure that the country's neediest students get the best teachers.
Research
A National Priority: Americans Speak on Teacher Quality
A majority of Americans support hiring more teachers and providing them with better salaries and working conditions, and more professional training even if doing so means higher taxes.
Preparing Teachers Around the World
This international study compares and contrasts teacher education and certification policies in the United States with those in Australia, England, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, the Netherlands and Singapore.
How Teaching Matters: Bringing the Classroom Back Into Discussions of Teacher Quality
This study links student achievement in mathematics and science to key aspects of teacher quality, and finds that classroom practices matter most.
