Recent Publications by Elizabeth Farley
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Philadelphia’s Teacher Hiring and School Assignment Practices: Comparisons with Other Districts – Executive Summary
The executive summary to the report compares the way the School District of Philadelphia goes about hiring and placing teachers in schools with the practices of other districts.
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Closing the Teacher Quality Gap in Philadelphia: New Hope and Old Hurdles – Executive Summary
This study of teacher staffing issues in the School District of Philadelphia, the third in a series, outlines the degree to which the district has succeeded in upgrading teachers’ professional credentials, recruiting and retaining them,…
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Philadelphia’s Teacher Hiring and School Assignment Practices: Comparisons with Other Districts
This report compares the way the School District of Philadelphia goes about hiring and placing teachers in schools with the practices of other districts. We did this to inform the current debate over these processes.…
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The Quest for Quality: Recruiting and Retaining Teachers in Philadelphia
In this second report on teacher quality in Philadelphia, the authors revisit the issues of declining rates of teacher certification, high rates of teacher turnover, elevated attrition rates in high-povery, low-performing schools, and highly centralized…
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Closing the Teacher Quality Gap in Philadelphia: New Hope and Old Hurdles
This study of teacher staffing issues in the School District of Philadelphia, the third in a series, outlines the degree to which the district has succeeded in upgrading teachers’ professional credentials, recruiting and retaining them,…