||Improve preparation, recruitment, development, evaluation, and
rewarding of effective teachers, principals, and administrators.
||To ensure that teachers have the subject matter expertise
needed to best prepare U.S. students for college and careers.
|How progress is measured: ||Public high school teachers with a
major in their main assignment area: 2003–04 and 2007-08 |Why is
this measure important? ||Effective instruction requires that
teachers have both strong pedagogical skills and content
knowledge in their main assignment area. Deep knowledge of the
subject taught, as represented by a college major in the
subject, is a useful indicator of teacher effectiveness and
equity, particularly at the high school level. Over the next 8
years, 1.7 million new teachers will be hired, and recruiting,
preparing, placing, and retaining teachers with relevant content
knowledge, especially in high-need fields, will help ensure that
all students are taught by effective teachers in all subjects.
|What do the data tell us