Chair:
Beatrice F. Birman, American Institutes for Research

Participants:
Do NCLB's Teacher Quality Provisions Ensure High Quality and Equity? Beatrice F. Birman, Mengli Song, Kwang Suk Yoon, Kerstin A. Carlson Le Floch, American Institutes for Research State Actions to Reduce Teacher Quality Gaps. Cynthia Prince, CCSSO
Statewide Assessment and Accountability Policies of the 1990s and Instructional Quality in Low-Income Schools, Meredith Phillips, University of California - Los Angeles; Jennifer Flashman, University of California - Los Angeles
Has NCLB Improved Teacher and Teaching Quality for Disadvantaged Students? Laura M. Desimone, Peabody College, Vanderbilt University; Thomas M. Smith, Vanderbilt University; David Frisvold, University of Michigan

Discussants: Joan Baratz-Snowden, American Federation of Teachers; Mary. Kennedy, Michigan State University