Teacher Quality: Disparate Impact on poor & Minorities

In a written statement submitted to the New Jersey State Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights

Dr. Sandra Stotsky, Professor of Educational Reform at the University of Arkansas wrote:

Miller & Chait (2008) found that students in high poverty schools are less likely than those in low poverty schools to be assigned a

teacher deemed “highly qualified” under the provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act. Miller & Chait

also found that the "attrition and mobility of effective teachers exacerbate inequity in the distribution of

teacher quality."

Read the entire statement at http://www.uark.edu/ua/der/People/Stotsky/NJCommissionOnCivilRights.pdf