Qualified Teachers for At-Risk Schools: A National Imperative

February 2005

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National Partnership for Teaching in
At-Risk Schools

On February 9, 2005, ECS was among three organizations that launched the National Partnership for Teaching in At-Risk Schools at a news conference in Washington, D.C. ECS, ETS and Learning Point Associates believe it’s time for a national effort to address and resolve the problems that the nation’s poorest, lowest-performing schools face in recruiting and retaining well-prepared teachers.

The National Partnership will work to raise the visibility of the issue and to mobilize policymakers, education and community leaders, funders and other key leaders to address the problem at the state and local levels.

Virginia Governor Mark R. Warner is chairing the partnership, which builds on the work he led as 2003-04 ECS chairman to make the recruitment and preparation of high-quality teachers for hard-to-staff schools a greater priority for governors, legislators, chief state school officers and other state education leaders.

For more information on the National Partnership for Teaching in At-Risk Schools, see the inaugural report, Qualified Teachers for At-Risk Schools: A National Imperative. It reviews the status of efforts nationally to address the quality of teaching in at-risk schools, summarizes the research and calls for the issue to be a national imperative.