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The National Commission on Teaching and America's Future

Link: www.nctaf.org

The National Commission on Teaching and America's Future is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing every child with competent, caring, qualified teachers in schools organized for success. In its latest report, No Dream Denied: A Pledge to America's Children, NCTAF finds that high teacher turnover and attrition have become a national crisis that is undermining teaching quality in too many of our schools. To address this crisis, NCTAF calls for a national effort to improve teacher retention by 50 percent by 2006. To reach this goal NCTAF proposes three strategies: * Organize schools for teaching and learning success, by creating small professional communities of teachers focused on what research tells us about how children learn * Insist on high quality teacher preparation, accreditation, and licensure. * Create rewarding professional career paths that include mentored induction of novice teachers and rewards for accomplished teaching.

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