Ready to Succeed: Changing Systems to Give California’s Foster Children the Opportunities They Deserve to be Ready for and Succeed in School
Full Research Report
This report, released by The California Education Collaborative for Children in Foster Care, calls for a sharper focus on the educational outcomes for children in foster care and offers recommendations for strengthening the policies and systems that support them.

Ready to Succeed: Changing Systems to Give California’s Foster Children the Opportunities They Deserve to be Ready for and Succeed in School
Summary Report

Teaching Quality in California: A New Perspective to Guide Policy
This policy brief represents a professional consensus regarding the dimensions of teaching quality and the issues that need to be addressed if California is to ensure high quality instruction for all students. It is based on the work of an expert panel of education stakeholders who reviewed research, met with outside experts, and discussed in depth the issue of teaching quality.

The Status of the Teaching Profession 2007
Full Research Report
This report provides the latest available data and analysis of California’s teaching workforce and the challenges confronting the state’s educators and policy-makers. Findings show California has reduced the number of underprepared teachers by more than 25,000 over the past five years, though staffing challenges still persist. The report also examines how quality is measured across key points in a teacher’s career - teacher preparation, hiring, and evaluation - and concludes that California currently does not have a coherent teacher development system to recruit, prepare, hire and mentor new teachers, or provide necessary support to veteran teachers.

The Status of the Teaching Profession 2007
Summary Report and Fact Sheets

The Status of the Teaching Profession 2007
Summary Report and Fact Sheets (Spanish)

The Status of the Teaching Profession 2007
Presenter’s Kit

Our Next Steps: Recommendations Supplement
This supplement provides California’s education policymakers with recommendations for strengthening teaching quality in the state.

Critical Path Analysis of California's Science and Mathematics Teacher Preparation System
Full Research Report
This report provides data specific to the mathematics and science teaching workforce in California. Findings include that more than ten percent of all math and science teachers are underprepared, including more than one third of novice math and science teachers. And that at the current rate of teacher preparation, California will fall short by 30 percent of the fully prepared math and science teachers needed by California schools. While acknowledging the important progress made by policymakers in strengthening teaching in California in recent years, the report calls for concrete action to ensure high quality math and science instruction for all students in all grades.

California’s Teaching Force 2006: Key Issues and Trends
Full Research Report

California’s Teaching Force 2006: Key Issues and Trends
Summary Report and Fact Sheets

California’s Teaching Force 2006: Key Issues and Trends
Summary Report and Fact Sheets  (Spanish)

California’s Teaching Force 2006: Key Issues and Trends
Presenter’s Kit

Strengthening California's Teacher Information System
Many key questions about the teacher workforce cannot be answered using current data systems because of the combined effects of lack of coordination and poor data linkage. California needs improved coordination of separate agency efforts to link these datasets through straightforward actions and leadership.

Listening to Teachers of English Language Learners
This survey of more than 5,000 California teachers examines their experiences, challenges and professional development needs in teaching the state’s more than 1.6 million students designated as English learners. Listening to Teachers of English Language Learners was a collaborative project of Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE), the University of California Linguistic Minority Research Institute (UC LMRI) and the Center for the Future of Teaching and Learning.

First to Worst
DVD
The condition of public schools in California is the subject of a new PBS documentary titled FIRST TO WORST. The film, hosted by journalist John Merrow, chronicles the rise and fall of California’s public school system, the largest in the nation and home to one of every eight American students.