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RQT: Policy Recommendations

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Our policy recommendations are two-fold.  First, we suggest that the United States focus on innovation through deregulation of entrance into the teaching profession.  Simultaneously, the country should both fund innovation and extensive research to hopefully identify the qualities likely to predict a teacher’s success, and later to identify the policy’s most likely to promote successful screening of applicants.  By promoting competition between traditional and alternative means of certification, we are hoping to identify best practices in recruitment strategies.  We recommend that the end goal be a more systematized form of teacher training—reflecting the models in higher performing countries.  If we can figure out what identifiable qualities are inherent in teacher candidates, we can create a replicable screening process that could be implemented via policies in each state.  We recommend further implementation of the residency models, which are relatively new—and quite expensive—but seem to show promise for both promoting high levels of selectivity into the profession, and incorporate a thorough training model.  The emphasis on systematically identifying and recruiting quality individuals to enter the teaching profession could not be more timely, as the United States continues to lag behind other developed countries in tests designed to measure student achievement, and has an opportunity to innovate and find answers. 

 

 

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