Formal Testimony and Comment

Letter to Senate HELP Committee on ESEA Reauthorization

Date: 
May 7 2010

Read the letter to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions on Reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. The document contains sections on Accountability for Results, Standards and Assessments, Ensuring Equitable Access to Effective Teachers and Leaders, Turning Around Our Lowest Performing Schools, Funding Fairness, Instructional Supports for Teachers, and Public Information and Reporting.

Download: 
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Testimony of Linda Murray, Acting Executive Director, The Education Trust–West, to House Education and Labor Committee Hearing on Teacher Quality and Distribution

Date: 
September 30 2009

Chairman Miller, members of the committee: Thank you very much for providing me with the opportunity to talk with you this morning  about the importance of strong teaching  to our  effort to boost student achievement and close achievement gaps.

Testimony of Kati Haycock, President, The Education Trust Before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and the Workforce Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness

Date: 
May 20 2003

Mr. Chairman and members of the Committee, thank you for this opportunity to testify before you today on the number one ingredient of high achievement: quality teachers.  This Committee has already exhibited great leadership in the effort to improve teacher quality by including important new teacher-related provisions in the Higher Education Act of 1998 and, more recently, by including expansive teacher-related provisions in No Child Left Behind.  These were very important first steps. 

My purpose here this afternoon is to remind you why this subject should remain high on your agenda as you reauthorize the Higher Education Act and to suggest some ways in which you might build on the momentum you created in the earlier laws.