Teachers Matter

<p>This book highlights the global concern about the teaching workforce from recruitment and retention of teachers to the development and quality of teachers in schools. The collection of papers in this book is international in scope representing a range of research designs (from longitudinal studies using national and international datasets large-scale surveys reviews and syntheses of evidence to randomized control trials value-added models and design-based action research). These papers exemplify the high standard of research in education.</p>