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(2009). Teacher qualification and the achievement gap in early primary grades. <i>Education Policy Analysis Archives, 17</i>(15). Retrieved [date] from http://epaa.asu.edu/epaa/v17n15/.</span></p> </blockquote> <table align="center" border="0" width="475"> <tbody> <tr> <td> <b>Abstract</b><br />  <p>Title I of the No Child Left Behind Act (P.L. 107-110, 115 Stat. 1245, 2002) holds schools accountable for reducing the academic achievement gap between the different ethnic groups and requires elementary school teachers to have at least a bachelors degree and a state certification. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship of the qualification requirement of NCLB to the goal of reducing the academic achievement gap. The study found that students with a certified teacher for most of their early school experience scored higher in reading than students who did not have a certified teacher. In addition, certification was associated with slightly narrowing the academic gap between African American and European American students across early elementary grades.<br />  Keywords: equity; teacher certification; teacher qualifications; student achievement; reading; value-added; Early Childhood Longitudinal Study.</p>  <p><strong>Cualificación docente y brechas en los resultados en los grados iniciales de la escuela primaria</strong></p> <p><b>Resumen</b><br />  El articulo I de la ley No Child Left Behind (PL 107-110, 115 Stat. 1245, 2002) demanda que las escuelas asuman responsabilidades para reducir la brecha en los rendimientos académicos entre los diferentes grupos étnicos y además exige que los docentes de escuelas primarias tengan por lo menos una licenciatura y un certificación del Estado para enseñar. El objetivo de este estudio es examinar la relación entre el requerimiento de formación de NCLB con el objetivo de reducir la brecha de rendimiento académico. Este estudio encontró que estudiantes que tuvieron docentes con certificación durante la mayor parte de sus estudios tuvieron mejores resultados en los exámenes de lectura en comparación a estudiantes que no tuvieron un docente con certificaciones. Además, la certificación se asoció con una ligera reducción en la brecha de los resultados académicos de los estudiantes africano-americanos y europeo-americanos en los grados iniciales de la escuela primaria. <br />  Palabras clave: certificación de docentes, las formación docente, logros de los estudiantes; lectura; valor añadido; educación infantil, estudio longitudinal.</p> <p align="center"><a href="http://epaa.asu.edu/epaa/v17n15/v17n15.pdf" target="Window"><b>Access this article in PDF format.</b></a> <a href="http://epaa.asu.edu/epaa/v17n15/v17n15.pdf" target="Window"><img src="pdf.gif" border="0" width="18" height="18" /></a><br /></p> <div style="display:none;"> Education Policy Analysis Archives, class size, David Berliner, Gene Glass, Michael Apple, Sherman Dorn, Gustavo Fischman, Pablo Gentili, education policy analysis archives, epaa, aape, education, Paulo Freire, reforma educativa, archivos analiticos politicas educativas, neoliberalismo, descentralizacion, evaluacion, pruebas nacionales, estandares, lectura, revista educativa, revista academica, pruebas, sindicatos docentes, gremios, profesores, universidades, escuelas publicas, escuelas privadas, escuelas charter, policy, educational policy, policy analysis, vouchers, charter schools, evaluation, educational evaluation, education reform, school reform, educational reform, educational journals, accountability, school choice, standards, higher education, academic standards, testing, assessment, public policy, teaching, journal, educational research, private schools, homeschooling, home schooling, tuition, teacher unions, educational assessment,política, política educacional, análise de política, comprovantes, escolas da carta patente, avaliação, avaliação educacional, reforma dainstrução, reforma de escola, reforma educacional, jornais educacionais, accountability, escolha da escola, educacion popular; pedagogia critica, Education Policy Analysis Archives, class size, David Berliner, Gene Glass, Michael Apple, Sherman Dorn, Gustavo Fischman, Pablo Gentili, education policy analysis archives, epaa, aape, education, Paulo Freire, reforma educativa, archivos analiticos politicas educativas, neoliberalismo, descentralizacion, evaluacion, pruebas nacionales, estandares, lectura, revista educativa, revista academica, pruebas, sindicatos docentes, gremios, profesores, universidades, escuelas publicas, escuelas privadas, escuelas charter, policy, educational policy, policy analysis, vouchers, charter schools, evaluation, educational evaluation, education reform, school reform, educational reform, educational journals, accountability, school choice, standards, higher education, academic standards, testing, assessment, public policy, teaching, journal, educational research, private schools, homeschooling, home schooling, tuition, teacher unions, educational assessment,política, política educacional, análise de política, comprovantes, escolas da carta patente, avaliação, avaliação educacional, reforma da instrução, reforma de escola, reforma educacional, jornais educacionais, accountability, escolha da escola</div> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p> </p> <hr noshade size="0"> <table border="0" width="475" align="center"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="font-size:x-small;"> <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/"><img src="/epaa/images/srr.gif" alt="some rights reserved" border="0" align="left" border="0"></a> Readers are free to copy, display, and distribute this abstract and the associated article, as long as the work is attributed to the author(s) and Education Policy Analysis Archives, it is distributed for non-commercial purposes only, and no alteration or transformation is made in the work. 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