Mentoring programs have been well examined throughout the country.  Academic studies, newspaper articles and data have been compiled in order to provide looks at the national and statewide impact educator mentoring programs have had and continue to have.

National Research

Research from across the nation about educator mentoring

Articles

Press and other informative articles about educator mentoring programs in Oregon

Results

Check out survey results from the inaugural year of mentor program implementation.

Summary of the value of improved teacher quality is summarized by Gordon, Kane, and Staiger in 2006 (per John Tapogna, ECONorthwest):

“The cumulative impact of [rigorous teacher induction policies] could be substantial. If the effects of a good teacher in early grades were to persist through high school (a hypothesis that has not been tested in the educational research), an annual increase in test scores of 1.2 percentile points at each grade over the course of twelve years in a school system would raise student test scores by roughly 14 percentile points by the time students graduated.

The economic value of such an increase could be enormous...We estimate that the increase in career earnings from a 14 percentile point increase in achievement test scores would be worth about $72,000 to $169,000 per high school graduate. When multiplied by 3 million public high school graduates per year, such an increase would be worth $216 billion to $507 billion per year, if the policy were applied nationwide.” 
 

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