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CTP Policy Briefs

One of the Center's chief goals is to offer timely and useful information concerning efforts to improve the quality of teaching to national, state, and local policy communities. The Teaching Quality Policy Brief series is one vehicle for accomplishing this purpose. Issued periodically throughout the year, these briefs summarize Center working papers, reports, occasional papers, and other research products.

Building Instructional Quality and Coherence in San Diego City Schools: System Struggle, Professional Change Policy Brief 9, September 2003.
		Original Study	PDF
Understanding Reading Test Failure: Challenges for State and District Policy Policy Brief 8, July 2003.
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The Organization of Schools as an Overlooked Source of Underqualified Teaching Policy Brief 7, December 2002.
		Original Study	PDF
What School Districts Spend on Professional Development Policy Brief 6, November 2002.
		Original Study	PDF
San Diego City Schools: Comprehensive Reform Strategies at Work Policy Brief 5, February 2002.
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Connecticut's Story: A Model of State Teaching Policy Policy Brief 4, June 2001.
		Original Study	PDF
A Different Approach to Solving the Teacher Shortage Problem Policy Brief 3, authored by Richard Ingersoll, January 2001.
		Original Study	PDF
State Teaching Policies and Student Achievement Policy Brief 2, December 1999.
		Original Study	PDF
State Action to Improve Teaching Policy Brief 1, December 1999.
		Original Study	PDF