Making Teacher Tenure Meaningful

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Teacher Tenure Meaningful

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Teacher Tenure Reform: Applying Lessons from the Civil Service and Higher Education

This new paper from Public Impact examines lessons from higher education and the civil service and applies fresh thinking to offer new “elite” and “inclusive” tenure designs that could improve student learning and help grow the size and power of an elite teaching corps that reaches far more children.

The report also provides a framework for policymakers who want to make tenure meaningful.

Discussions about tenure nearly always fall into the “keep it” or “scrap it” camps. This paper inserts level-headed thinking into the K-12 tenure debate. Read the full report here.

Teacher Tenure Reform is a new report in the series:

For more on hiring, keeping, and effectively deploying great teachers, see other titles from the Opportunity Culture series, including:

Opportunity at the Top: How America’s Best Teachers Could Close the Gaps, Raise the Bar, and Keep Our Nation Great [full report or executive summary]

3X for All: Extending the Reach of Education’s Best [pdf]

Using Competency-Based Evaluation to Drive Teacher Excellence: Lessons from Singapore [pdf]

Shooting for Stars: Cross-Sector Lessons for Retaining High-Performing Educators [pdf]

Measuring Teacher and Leader Performance: Cross-Sector Lessons for Excellent Evaluations [pdf]

This series, available at www.opportunityculture.org, was made possible with support from:

Shooting for Stars was made possible with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

3X for All was made possible with support from the Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation.

The views expressed in these reports are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the funders.

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