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The Highly Qualified Teacher

The Highly Qualified Teacher: What Is Teacher Quality and How Do We Measure It?“Michael Strong’s encyclopedic compilation of teacher and teaching quality research is a must-read for practitioners as well as policymakers and those who inform them. Isn’t it time that data, not just ideology, pave the way for identifying, preparing, and rewarding highly qualified teachers?”

~Barnett Berry, Founder and President of the Center for Teaching Quality, author Teaching 2030

 

Papers, Presentations, and News

Do We Know a Successful Teacher When We See One? by Strong, Gargani, and Hacifazlioğlu, just published in the Journal of Teacher Education.

Strong and Gargani present at the American Evaluation Association 2011 Conference in Anaheim, California. Learn more.

Strong presents at the 3rd International Conference on Teaching and Learning in Penang, Malaysia. Learn more.

Researchers in the UK replicating RATE experiments.

About Us

Michael Strong holds a Ph.D. in Educational Research from UC Berkeley; is the former Director of Research at the UC Santa Cruz New Teacher Center and the UC San Francisco Center on Deafness; and is lead researcher for the National Laboratory for Educational Transformation, a new non-profit research organization. His most recent book is The Highly Qualified Teacher: What is Teacher Quality and How Do We Measure It?

John Gargani holds a Ph.D. in Education from UC Berkeley, a Masters in Statistics and Operations Research from New York University’s Stern School of Business, and a Masters of Business Administration from University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business. He is President of Gargani + Company, Inc., a consulting firm that provides program design and evaluation services to social and educational programs. For the past 20 years, he and his colleagues have worked with clients to imagine, implement, test, and improve a wide variety of programs. His areas of expertise are the integration of service delivery, evaluation, and technology; the development of sophisticated assessments and surveys; and the design and management of rigorous experimental trials of program effectiveness.