Enhancing Teacher Education, Development, and Evaluation

This book examines the complex role that recent educational reforms have played in the teaching profession. Five concise yet comprehensive chapters invite teacher educators, teachers and school leaders in training, administrators, and policymakers to better understand the implications of and possible paths beyond misguided reform efforts.

Alyson L. Lavigne is Assistant Professor of Instructional Leadership at Utah State University, USA. Thomas L. Good is Professor Emeritus (and former Chair) of the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Arizona, USA.

1.Teaching In America: A Paradox-Highly valued but Lowly Paid 2.Teacher Effects on Student Achievement: A Review of the Literature 3.A Brief History of Education Reform and Race to the Top 4.Race to the Top: Its Effects on Principal Practice, Teaching, and Learning 5.Learning from Failure