Over the last decade, policymakers and researchers increasingly have recognized that teacher quality is the most powerful predictor of student achievement. Despite this growing consensus, too few educational and political leaders agree on how to ensure that every student has access to quality teachers and teaching. The Center for Teaching Quality (formerly the Southeast Center for Teaching Quality) has had a long interest in building more robust teaching quality data systems across states in ways that can inform teaching policy deliberation.

With support from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Center for Teaching Quality has developed a Teaching Quality Indicators Roadmap. We believe investing in and building a comprehensive teaching quality data system will help universities, the state, and the nation answer critical questions about how to define a quality teacher and what steps need to be taken to recruit, prepare, and retain them. 

Travel down each road to learn how to build an Ideal Teaching Quality Data System—avoiding wrong turns, heeding warning signs, and arriving at a destination that is fair and reliable for teachers and the students they serve.

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CTQ is excited to announce our support of the Data Quality Campaign.  We agree with significance of the Campaign's goal to improve the collection, availability, and use of high-quality education data.  We believe our work can contribute to the Campaign's efforts to help states develop quality longitudinal data systems, and their laudable goal to provide a national forum for reducing duplication of efforts and promoting greater coordination and consensus among the organizations focused on improving data quality, access and use.