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Highly Qualified Teachers: A National Imperative

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Highly Qualified Teachers: NCLB, Continued

What is a HOUSSE

  1.  Is set by the State for both grade appropriate academic subject matter knowledge and teaching skills;
  2.  Is aligned with challenging state academic content and student academic achievement standards and developed in consultation with core content specialists, teachers, principals, and school administrators;
  3. Provides objective, coherent information about the teacher's attainment of core content knowledge in the academic subjects in which a teacher teaches;
  1. Is applied uniformly to all teacher in the same academic subject and the same grade level throughout the State;
  2.  Takes into consideration, but not be based primarily on, the time the teacher has been teaching in the academic subject;
  3. Is made available to the public upon request; and
  4. May involve multiple, objective measure of teacher competency.