This groundbreaking paintings examines instructor caliber, paintings norms, studying possibilities, utilizing facts from 15 international locations. The authors evaluate and distinction the U.S. with high-achieving countries—Japan and Australia—that have applied very various methods to enhancing instructor caliber. Drawing on either huge overseas info units and ethnographic and small-scale experiences, the publication addresses serious questions:

• How do instructor caliber and instructor recruitment and hiring guidelines within the usa range from these in different countries?
• How do the operating stipulations of U.S. lecturers vary from these of academics in different countries?
• How do U.S. academics’ possibilities for pro studying fluctuate from these of academics in different countries?
• How do the features of the nationwide instructing strength impression pupil achievement?
• What U.S. rules provide promise for bettering instructor quality?

Motoko Akibais Assistant Professor within the division of academic management and coverage research on the collage of Missouri–Columbia and a 2008 recipient of nationwide technological know-how origin college Early profession Award.Gerald LeTendreis Professor of schooling and foreign Affairs and chair of the academic coverage stories division on the Pennsylvania country college. he's presently appearing editor ofThe American magazine of Educationand serves at the editorial board for theComparative schooling Review.

“An remarkable instance of comparative academic research.... Authors Akiba and LeTendre use various methodologies and accompany their analyses with a suite of systematic thoughts which are as well timed as they're prescient. accordingly, students of academic coverage and perform, in addition to policymakers, directors, and lecturers, will locate this quantity to be an critical contribution to ongoing nationwide and foreign discussions of academic reform.”

—Irving Epstein, affiliate Dean of the school, Illinois Wesleyan University