No Child Left Behind Fact Sheet
The fact sheet from the NCLB website specifies the need for more highly qualified teachers in all subjects areas.
http://www.nclb.gov/start/facts_pdf/teachers.pdf

To Close the Gap, Quality Counts
This Education Week article cites data that supports the need for more highly qualified teachers, especially in high-poverty, high-minority, and low-achieving schools.
www.edweek.org/sreports/qc03/templates/article.cfm?slug=17exec.h22

Summary Data on Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Quality, and Teacher Qualifications
This publication of the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education includes data from a variety of sources to support the importance of teacher qualifications to student achievement.
www.ncate.org/resources/factsheettq.htm

Teacher Quality: A Report on the Preparation and Quality of Public School Teachers
Published by the National Center for Educational Statistics, this document gives data to support the teacher quality issue.
http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=1999080

A Compendium of Resources on Teacher Quality
This document is a searchable database housing over eighty national, regional, and state resources encompassing the full range of teacher quality issues.
www.sheeo.org/soar/compendium.asp?compid=1

Off Target
This Education Week article written by Susan E. Ansell and Melissa McCabe provides evidence that students in high-poverty, high-minority, and low-performing schools are less likely than other pupils to be taught by teachers trained in their subjects, and few states and districts have designed specific policy strategies to close the gap. The tables in the article include the results of a special analysis of the U.S. Department of Education's 1999-2000 Schools and Staffing Survey. The data include state-by-state breakdowns of students' access to well-qualified teachers in high- and low-poverty and high- and low-minority schools.
http://www.edweek.org/sreports/qc03/templates/article.cfm?slug=17target.h22