Kate Walsh National Council on Teacher Quality

2 Teachers matter.

3 Great teachers can accomplish miracles—but there aren’t enough of them. Source: NCTQ, based on estimates of Hanushek and others.

4 Odds of random assignment of great teacher: One in seven

5 Odds of random assignment of great teacher 5 years in a row: 1 in 17,000

6 For minorities, the odds are even worse. Source: Illinois Education Research Council, 2005.

7 For poor students as well. Source: Illinois Education Research Council, 2005.

8 We don’t tend to value the right things about teachers.

9 Overwhelming research finds no value from master’s degrees. Source: Ozdemir, M. and Stevenson, W., 2009 National Council on Teacher Quality

10 What we wrongly value. Source: NCTQ TR 3 database,

11 Experience doesn’t matter as much as we think…or pay for. Source: Hanushek and Rivkin, 2004 “How to Improve the Supply of High Quality Teachers.” Brookings.

12 Source: The Hamilton Project, Brooking Institution

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15 We need to make tougher decisions about who earns tenure.

16 By improving the overall quality of the teacher pool (fewer weak teachers), the pay off would be significant.

17 Routinely denying tenure to the bottom 25 percent of all teachers would have a big impact on student achievement at a fraction of the cost.

18 We must attend to the TOP as well.