School finance and teacher quality : exploring the connections : 2003 yearbook of the American Education Finance Association

The yearbook is organized around four issues, each of which can be viewed as representing an important focal point to improve teacher and teaching quality and having important implications for school finance. The issues are (1) teacher recruitment, induction, and retention; (2) the ongoing porfessional development of teachers; (3) equity in the allocation of teaching resources; (4) teacher compensation and workplace conditions. 1. School Finance And Teacher Quality : Exploring The Connections -- 2. Recruitment, Induction, And Retention Of Academically Talented Urban School Teachers : Evidence From New York City -- 3. The Impact Of Teacher Turnover On Teacher Quality : Findings From Four States -- 4. Understanding Teacher Labor Markets : Implications For Educational Equity -- 5. Rethinking District Professional Development Spending To Support School Improvement : Lessons From Comparative Spending Analysis -- 6. The Incidence And Impact Of Teacher Professional Development : Implications For Education Productivity -- 7. Examining Investments In Teacher Professional Development : A Look At Current Practice And A Proposal For Improving The Research Base -- 8. Class-size Reduction And Teacher Quality : Evidence From California -- 9. Organizing Schools For Student And Teacher Learning : An Examination Of Resource Allocation Choices In Reforming Schools -- 10. An Early Assessment Of Comprehensive Teacher Compensation Change Plans -- 11. Distributing The Pie : Allocating Resources Through Labor-management Agreements. Margaret L. Plecki And David H. Monk, Editors. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes. The yearbook is organized around four issues, each of which can be viewed as representing an important focal point to improve teacher and teaching quality and having important implications for school finance. The issues are: (1) teacher recruitment, induction, and retention (2) the ongoing professional development of teachers (3) equity in the allocation of teaching resources (4) teacher compensation and workplace conditions. Section I. Teacher recruitment, induction, and retention -- section II. Professional development -- section III. Finance, equity and teacher quality -- section IV. Teacher compensation and teacher unions