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FAST TRACK TEACHER EDUCATION
A REVIEW OF THE RESEARCH LITERATURE ON
TEACH FOR ALL SCHEMES
NEW ZEALAND POST‐PRIMARY TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION (PPTA)
TE WEHENGARUA
Andrew McConney, PhD
Anne Price, EdD
Amanda Woods-McConney, PhD
Centre for Learning, Change and Development
Please cite this document as:
McConney, A., Price, A., & Woods-McConney, A. (2012). Fast track
teacher education: A review of the research literature on Teach For
All schemes. Perth: Murdoch University, Centre for Learning,
Change and Development.
by Andrew McConney, Anne Price &
Amanda Woods-McConney
School of Education, Murdoch University
1.        Executive Summary ............................................................................................... iii
2.        List of Acronyms .................................................................................................... ix
3.        Acknowledgement................................................................................................. xi
4.        Background and Purpose .......................................................................................1
5.        Literature Review Method .....................................................................................4
6.        Literature Review Findings ....................................................................................7
6.1.        What does the literature indicate to be appropriate definitions of
"effectiveness" in teacher education? ........................................................................... 9
6.2. What different recruitment models are used by Teach for All training
schemes, including academic requirements, and how do these compare with
recruitment to traditional secondary teacher education programmes? ..................... 14
6.3. What different models of Teach for All training schemes exist, and what
evidence exists to show the relative effectiveness or otherwise of these
schemes? ...................................................................................................................... 20
6.4. What comparative research exists to show the effectiveness of fast‐track
teacher education compared with the one‐year graduate programmes
normally used in New Zealand for preparation for secondary teaching?.................... 24
6.5. What evidence exists about whether Teach for All models of teacher
education have impacted positively on the recruitment and retention of high
quality teachers in hard‐to‐staff schools...................................................................... 32
6.6. What impact has the rise of Teach for All models of teacher education had on
existing university/college‐based models of teacher education?................................ 35
6.7. What evidence exists about the motivations and influence of philanthropic
foundations on Teach for All at an international level and at the level of
individual schemes? ..................................................................................................... 38
6.8. What evidence exists about relationships between Teach for All programmes
and professional teacher associations/teacher unions in relevant countries? ........... 41
7.        Concluding Thoughts ...........................................................................................44
8.        Bibliography..........................................................................................................49
Appendix A: Annotated Bibliography ............................................................................56
LITERATURE REVIEW: FAST TRACK TEACHER EDUCATION SCHEMES
NEW ZEALAND POST‐PRIMARY TEACHERS ' ASSOCIATION TE WEHENGARUA
This review of the research literature is about fast track schemes in teacher education, and
specifically focuses on what is currently known about such schemes run by the organisation Teach
For All (TFA). In stark contrast to traditional university‐based teacher education, schemes
characterised as fast track provide would‐be teachers a greatly accelerated programme of study
and practical experience for gaining entry to teaching in schools. Within a wide variety of
alternative routes for teacher training and eventual certification (credentialing), so‐called fast
track programs have been one of the more visible and aggressively developed and marketed
schemes over the last twenty‐five years. Initially conceived and developed as Teach For America,
similar fast track teacher education programs are now also established as Teach First UK and
Teach For Australia, and such a scheme is currently under negotiation and development as Teach
First New Zealand. TFA schemes have been established in some 18 countries around the world.
This review of the literature was commissioned by the New Zealand Post‐Primary Teachers
Association (PPTA) Te Wehengarua as a means of informing the decision‐making of the
Association and its members about the TFA scheme seeking to prepare teachers for New
Zealand's schools. The review was conducted by Andrew McConney, Anne Price and Amanda
Woods‐McConney, all lecturers at Murdoch University in Perth, Western Australia. All three
reviewers have substantial experience in traditional university‐based teacher preparation; two
have experience as teachers in public schools in the US and Australia; and, one co‐led the design
and implementation of a federally‐funded, competency‐based, alternative pathway to teacher
certification in the US during the mid‐1990s.
The identification of studies to be included for the literature review was approached
systematically, using electronic searches of relevant scholarly databases such as the Educational
Resources Information Center (ERIC) and the British Education Index (BEI) and also utilizing
commonly available internet search tools like Google Scholar. The review was confined to
literature published in English, and prioritised primary, empirically‐based research literature
published during the last twenty years. In all, about 100 studies are included, the majority from
peer‐reviewed, scholarly journals, but also including several key reports produced by government
agencies and by education or public policy think‐tanks that are freely available via the Internet.
Some of these reports were commissioned by TFA, and funded by its philanthropic or corporate
supporters.
To help ensure the comprehensiveness of this review, three internationally recognised teacher
education scholars reviewed the initial bibliography representing the research literature to be
included. These scholars included Regents' Professor Emeritus David Berliner of Arizona State
University, Professor Andrew Hobson of Sheffield‐Hallam University, and Dr. Marie Cameron of
the New Zealand Council for Educational Research. These researchers reviewed the list of studies
to be included, and recommended additional studies that had been initially overlooked. This
process was especially helpful in identifying studies particular to New Zealand (Cameron), the UK
(Hobson) and the US (Berliner).
The review of the research literature is structured to provide best‐possible answers to eight
questions posed by the PPTA. In short form, these questions included:
ƒ What are appropriate, current definitions of effectiveness in teacher education?
ƒ What recruitment models does TFA use?
ƒ What different models of TFA exist, and is there evidence about their relative
effectiveness?
ƒ Are TFA teachers effective, especially in comparison to secondary teachers prepared by
one‐year post baccalaureate programs typical in New Zealand?
ƒ How do TFA models impact teacher recruitment and retention in hard to staff schools?
ƒ What impact has TFA had on university‐based teacher education?
ƒ Do philanthropic foundations influence TFA, and if so how?
ƒ What is the relationship between TFA and professional teacher associations or unions?
Particularly for the US and the UK, teachers educated, and ultimately certified via alternative
routes, are now an established part of the teacher education landscape. For example, by 2008,
more than 60,000 alternatively prepared/certified teachers were employed in US schools, and the
likelihood of a public secondary school teacher being alternatively or provisionally certified had
risen from 2.5% (18,800 teachers) in 1993‐1994 to 4.9% (44,600 teachers) in 2003‐2004. By 2006,
data from the US National Center for Education Information indicated that more than 250,000
persons had been licensed through alternative teacher certification routes. Within this mix, Teach
For America had 6,000 corps members teaching more than 400,000 students across the US,
received 35,000 applications for 4,000 positions in its 2009 intake, and was raising $100 million a
year. TFA schemes are typified by short (5‐ to 6‐week), periods of intensive initial training, and
subsequent on‐the‐job mentoring and/or support during which candidates (also called associates
in the UK and Australia, or corps members in the US) have full responsibility for their students.
Typically, the schemes recruit recent graduates with Bachelor's degrees from leading universities
and after initial training, place them for at least two years in hard to staff, remote or low
socioeconomic area schools (i.e., schools experiencing challenging circumstances). Generally, TFA
teachers begin teaching with an initial, provisional or temporary certification (e.g., USA) or as
paraprofessionals (e.g., Australia) and most will have gained regular teacher certification by the
end of their two‐year teaching commitment.
By most metrics, the TFA teacher education brand must be considered a remarkable success.
Since first conceived by Wendy Kopp in 1988, the programme has spread across 18 countries, and
garnered praise and support from government, business and philanthropies. In addition, more
recent editions of the programme in Australia and the UK have seemingly strong relationships
with schools of education in leading universities and with school leaders where its teachers are
placed for their two‐year commitments.
Despite the kudos, however, significant questions continue to be raised about the efficacy and
culture of the approach. In the main, these questions and concerns are located in schools of
education—the traditional venues for the preparation of teachers for the schools—and among
teachers and teacher associations whose mandate includes protecting and advancing the
professionalization of teaching. Specifically, questions about the TFA organisation and the
teachers it produces centre on the fact that TFA teachers do not receive traditional teacher
education and therefore are not as well prepared for the demands of real schools, and hence less
effective in supporting student learning as compared to their traditionally prepared peers. Critics
have also pointed to the fact that TFA requires only a two‐year teaching commitment, and the
majority of corps members (associates) leave at the end of that time. This can be a problem,
because of the conventional wisdom that new teachers are generally less effective in comparison
to their more experienced colleagues, and because of the overt and hidden costs associated with
a 'revolving door' approach to teacher recruitment and retention. Additionally, critics have argued
that the alternative certification movement generally, and TFA specifically, threaten to undermine
the teaching profession and even to devalue public education. Related to this last criticism, it
should also be clear that the emergence and expansion of TFA, and other less well known
alternative routes to teacher education, are situated within particular political and socioeconomic
contexts. While we agree that those contexts and their accompanying ideologies should be
uncovered, and their aims debated by the full range of stakeholders in teacher education, we also
agree that such a discussion is well beyond the mandate of this review. We reaffirm that in our
understanding, the core business of this review is to locate, describe and synthesize what is
currently known about TFA programs and the teachers they prepare, strongly anchored to the
published research literature.
The first question asked of this review provides an important scaffold for framing those that
follow. In brief, the literature reflects significant shifts in thinking by teacher education leaders,
teacher associations, school leaders and education policy makers—around what is understood as
effective teacher education. These shifts, the result of a variety of confluent forces over the past
two and a half decades, move strongly away from focussing on the inputs, structure or
characteristics of teacher preparation programs as yardsticks of their quality or effectiveness, and
strongly toward various outcomes of teacher preparation. For New Zealand, and Australia more
recently, these outcomes focus squarely on standards that describe what graduate teachers
should know and be able to do to teach in the schools. In the US, alongside similar standards for
beginning teachers, current understandings of effectiveness for teacher education have taken a
very large additional step to centre on the progress in learning of pupils taught by teacher
education programme graduates. Importantly for programs or approaches that seek to prepare
teachers, these shifts towards standards‐ or outcomes‐based understandings provide de facto
operational definitions of effectiveness that are to be used in the centralised accreditation of
teacher preparation programs.
Turning to the question of recruitment of candidates into fast track teacher education
programmes, many studies in the published literature detail TFA schemes' use of innovative
marketing and recruitment strategies to attract top students from elite universities—a previously
untapped market for teacher education. TFA's success in attracting these candidates comes from
marketing that appeals to a sense of altruism and social justice combined with the offer of short
courses and future career and networking opportunities outside the classroom. Added to this are
financial incentives and other forms of compensation. The literature also points out, however,
that although marketing strategies that appeal to altruistic motives are indeed worthy and may
seem unproblematic, some research suggests the need to interrogate these assumptions more
No studies were found that specifically compared the relative effectiveness of different TFA
schemes. Published studies that describe TFA in different countries indicate that many key
features are quite similar across TFA programs. However, these do vary in important ways that
seem likely to impact their relative effectiveness. Specifically, an extra week of intensive training
in the UK and Australia provides important time for TFA participants to engage with fundamental
aspects of teacher education. A second key feature of the UK and Australian schemes, in contrast
to those in the US, that seems to add strength is partnering with experienced schools of education
in well respected universities. The added in‐school support of university tutors seems to increase
the likelihood that critical 'on the job' training is supported, even if in‐school mentoring is not
available or effective. Also, the requirement of both the Australian and UK TFA schemes that all
candidates (associates) attain a regular teaching qualification by the end of either the first or
second year has the potential to add an important venue for supporting the development of TFA
On the key question of the effectiveness of TFA‐prepared teachers in supporting the learning of
their students in comparison to their traditionally‐prepared colleagues, few well designed studies
exist—on a scale large enough to be useful to decision makers—that have systematically
examined this issue. Only one recent US study and one UK evaluation have done this for
secondary school teachers. Based on the few studies that do address this question directly, the
evidence about TFA teachers is mixed. On balance, there is insufficient evidence to conclude that
TFA teachers are systematically less effective in fostering or advancing student learning than their
traditionally prepared peers, either novice or experienced. In fact, a majority of the currently
available evidence reports an advantage for TFA teachers, particularly in the areas of mathematics
and science.
The majority of these studies used standardised assessments (e.g., SAT 9, ITBS, GCSE) as measures
of students' progress in learning, and hence as reflective of the relative effectiveness of
differently prepared teachers. The literature makes clear that many teachers and teacher
educators are concerned about the use of such tests because they measure only a small part of
students' learning, and focusing on these measures may mean that important aspects of learning
are missed. Additionally, many would argue that the effectiveness of a teacher comprises more
than standardized measures of students' learning. However, although their limitations are well
documented, standardized tests do measure learning outcomes—albeit imperfectly—that have
been agreed as important, and may also provide early warning of gaps in students' progress, or in
the quality of schools or teaching. Thus, in regard to student learning as the sole criterion for
teacher effectiveness, it would seem widely accepted that it is by itself, not a sufficient criterion,
but that it is nevertheless a necessary one.
Like the relative effectiveness of teachers, the retention of new teachers is a longstanding issue in
the schools, particularly for those in challenging circumstances. It is reported that 30% of new
teachers leave in the first year, and 50% leave within the first 5 years. Few studies provide actual
data around the retention of TFA teachers in the schools. Some studies indicate that attrition
rates are higher for alternatively prepared teachers in their first years, and the impression is that
TFA‐prepared teachers do not tend to stay in education for long. Other studies point out that the
rates of retention for TFA teachers are comparable for new teachers in schools in challenging
circumstances and in recent evaluation studies, indicators of early attrition rates for TFA‐prepared
teachers appear similar to those prepared by other routes. It should also be remembered,
however, that TFA schemes are built around a two‐year teaching commitment required of
associates or corps members. The relatively short duration of this commitment means that hiring
a TFA teacher is likely to have both overt and hidden costs for schools and students.
TFA and other fast track teacher preparation schemes have also come under heavy criticism
because of their perceived potential for negatively impacting traditional teacher education, and
public education more generally. Although few studies have addressed this issue empirically,
three areas of possible impact have been inferred from the research literature: (1) the promotion
of a view of teacher preparation that de‐skills the profession of teaching and potentially devalues
public education; (2) the potential for unfair competition for teacher education students, and (3)
the heightened interrogation of the quality of teacher education resulting in the development of
national standards for teachers and teacher education.
On the positive side, as described above, there seems little doubt that the development of
consensus resulting in national standards that guide teacher preparation has been fuelled by the
rise of the alternative teacher preparation movement, and perhaps most strongly by the success
of fast track schemes like TFA. On the negative side, however, it also seems quite clear that fast
track schemes carry with them strong potential to communicate an understanding of teacher
education that discounts the complex nature of teaching, in that the fast track approach implicitly
suggests that few special skills are needed to teach.
Similar to the lack of evidence about the relative effectiveness of various TFA schemes in
operation, there is little direct evidence in the research literature regarding the motivations or
influence of philanthropic foundations on TFA schemes. Additionally, to date, foundations
supporting TFA in Australia and the UK do not have as publicly articulated political or social
agendas for educational reform generally, as do their American counterparts. However, the
extent to which those who are significant donors, such as the Walton Family Foundation, are
actively and overtly engaged in attempting to shape educational policy would seem to indicate
that the TFA model fits well with their vision for reformed public education systems. These reform
agendas seem well aligned with privatized, market‐driven educational systems, and a focus on
standardised testing of student achievement used as the sine qua non of school and teacher
effectiveness.
Lastly, policy documents and media statements reveal clearly that professional teacher
associations and/or teacher unions in the US, UK and Australia consider fast track teacher
preparation schemes like Teach For All to be a significant threat to the professional status and
standards of teaching. While in most cases teacher associations offer measured support to
alternative routes to certification, the minimalist and highly technicist approach to teacher
education and the inherent assumptions that anyone who is bright and enthusiastic can teach are
generally viewed as insulting and wrong, and devaluing of teachers and traditional teacher
In summary, at present, the story of TFA is neither black nor white, but rather a 'shades of grey'
story. In other words, TFA is the type of story without straightforward or neat answers, that few
want to hear, and few want to tell, particularly those who are evangelical in their support or scorn
for the fast track approach to teacher preparation.
On the positive side are TFA's remarkable global expansion, success in securing philanthropic and
corporate support, selective recruitment of highly able university graduates into teaching and
public education more generally, and apparently healthy relationships with prestigious university
partners in the UK and Australia. Perhaps most critically, the few well‐designed, larger‐scale
studies that have been conducted to date on balance seem to demonstrate that TFA‐prepared
teachers are at least as effective in fostering student learning as compared to their traditionally‐
prepared colleagues, and perhaps more so in subjects like mathematics and science.
On the negative side, a high proportion of TFA‐prepared teachers leave teaching after two years.
It is a design feature of the TFA strategy that its teachers need only make a two‐year commitment
to teaching in the schools; this revolving door approach to teacher retention necessarily means
both direct and hidden costs to the schools and students of TFA teachers, and these costs would
seem particularly burdensome for schools in challenging circumstances. In addition to high
turnover, many traditional teacher education stakeholders have observed TFA's apparent
alignment with the rise of deregulation, choice and marketization, key planks in a
neoliberal/neoconservative educational reform agenda. Evidence for this is drawn from the public
values of some philanthropies and businesses that support TFA, and from oftentimes less than
friendly relationships with teacher unions. Lastly, and perhaps most importantly, TFA and its
alternative route teacher education peers are often portrayed as having a high potential for
reversing the progress made on advancing teaching as a profession. The logic of this perspective is
that by its very operation, TFA promotes the view that effective teachers simply need sound
knowledge of the subject to be taught, as well as a healthy sense of altruism and/or social justice
that frames and supports their work in challenging schools. In other words, the continued
existence of TFA poses an existential question for traditional teacher education and potentially
calls into question the value of teachers it prepares.
One final point seems worth observing. As noted in the answer to the first question asked of this
review, the Western democracies in which TFA is established, and from which the bulk of research
for this review has been sourced, have universally moved to a view of effectiveness (and
therefore quality) in teacher education based on sets of standards that specify what graduate
(and other) teachers should know and be able to do to take up positions as teachers in the
schools. In the US, teacher education authorities have taken this one large step further by also
including the effectiveness of new teachers in advancing the learning of their students. An
outcomes view of effectiveness, and more specifically the standards for new teachers, provides
operational definitions that are to be used for accrediting programs that prepare teachers for the
schools. In the first instance, it will be interesting to observe whether all programs that train
teachers are held to similar standards regarding the knowledge and skills of the prospective
teachers they prepare. In the second instance, it will be equally interesting to observe what
evidence may be provided by both traditional and alternative routes, including fast track
pathways, to demonstrate that graduate teachers do indeed meet the standards required, and
therefore that the various programs are indeed effective.
2. List of Acronyms
ACER            Australian Council for Educational Research
ACP             Alternative Certification Program
AERA            American Educational Research Association
AFT             American Federation of Teachers
AITSL           Australian Institute for Teaching & School Leadership
APA             American Psychological Association
BEI             British Education Index
CALDER          (US National) Center for the Analysis of Longitudinal Data in
CLCD            Centre for Learning, Change and Development (Murdoch
University, Perth, Western Australia)
COAG            Coalition of Australian Governments
DEEWR           Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
(Australia)
DfE             Department for Education (UK)
DOE             Department of Education (USA)
EOC             End of course tests (examinations used at the end of courses/units
taken for credit in high schools in North Carolina)
ERIC            Education Resources Information Center
ERO             Educational Review Office (New Zealand)
GCSE            General Certificate of Secondary Education (UK)
INTASC          Interstate New Teacher Assessment Support Consortium
ITBS            Iowa Test of Basic Skills
ITE             Initial Teacher Education
ITET            Initial Teacher Education and Training
ITP             Initial Teacher Preparation
ITT             Initial Teacher Training
MCEECDYA        Ministerial Council for Education, Early Childhood Development and
Youth Affairs (Australia)
MGSE            Melbourne Graduate School of Education
MU                 Murdoch University
NBPTS              National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (USA)
NCATE              National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education (USA)
NEA                National Education Association (USA)
NPD                National Pupil Database (UK)
NZCER              New Zealand Council for Educational Research
NZQA               New Zealand Qualifications Agency
NZTC               New Zealand Teachers Council
OECD               Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
PLASC              Pupil Level Annual Schools Census (UK)
PPTA               New Zealand Post Primary Teachers' Association Te Wehengarua
PRAXIS             Praxis Series™ tests developed and administered by the
Educational Testing Service in the US, measure teacher
candidates' knowledge and skills. The tests are used for licensing
and certification processes.
RCT                Randomized controlled trial (experimental research design)
SAT 9              Stanford Achievement Test, 9th Edition
SES                Socioeconomic Status
SKA                Subject Knowledge Audit
TFA 1              Teach For All
TQNP               Teacher Quality National Partnership (Australia)
TRB                Teacher Registration Board (New Zealand)
Teach For America and Teach For Australia also carry the TFA acronym. To avoid confusion, when we refer to these
programmes specifically, we have used their full names except in cases where the context makes sufficiently clear the
programme being discussed.
3. Acknowledgement
We are deeply grateful to Regents' Professor Emeritus David Berliner
(Arizona State University), Dr. Marie Cameron (New Zealand Council for
Educational Research) and Professor Andrew Hobson (Sheffield Hallam
University) for their contributions to this review of the research literature
concerning Fast Track Teacher Education Schemes. Each of these
internationally recognized teacher education scholars independently
reviewed the results of our literature search (in the form of an annotated
bibliography) primarily for completeness and relevance to the topic. As part
of their review, each scholar also suggested, and in some cases provided,
additional studies relevant to the topic. Undoubtedly, the deep knowledge
and experience of initial teacher education brought by each of these
scholars substantially strengthened this review, and we thank Andy, David,
and Marie for generously sharing their expertise.
In the final review, nevertheless, any unintended omission of relevant
research or misrepresentations of published studies remain the sole
responsibility of the report's authors.
Andrew McConney Anne Price Amanda Woods‐McConney
4. Background and Purpose
This review of the research literature provides a comprehensive, international examination
of Fast Track Teacher Education Schemes, with particular focus on Teach For All (TFA). The review
was commissioned by the New Zealand Post‐Primary Teachers' Association Te Wehengarua
(PPTA) in April 2011; the terms of reference for the review were agreed with Murdoch University
(MU) in May 2011, for anticipated completion by the end of November 2011. The review of so‐
called fast track TFA routes to initial teacher education (ITE) 2 was conducted by Dr. Andrew
McConney, Dr. Anne Price and Dr. Amanda Woods‐McConney, lecturers at Murdoch University's
School of Education, and the project managed by MU's Centre for Learning, Change and
Development (CLCD) 3 .
The terms of reference for this review of research specify that its central purpose is to provide a
systematic and comprehensive examination of research evidence on the genesis, operation and
effectiveness of Fast Track Teacher Education Schemes, with particular emphasis on Teach For All.
Further, the review of literature is charged with synthesizing the findings of local, regional and
international studies on fast track (TFA) ITE schemes in an evidence‐based yet non‐technical,
easy‐to‐access format. The review was conducted between May and November 2011 and began
with searches of relevant scholarly databases such as the Educational Resources Information
Center (ERIC) and the British Education Index (BEI) and also utilized commonly available internet
search tools like Google Scholar. The review was confined to literature published in or translated
into English, and prioritised primary, empirically‐based research literature published during the
last twenty years.
In keeping with PPTA's request, the systematic review specifically examined what research
evidence currently exists that addresses the following questions:
1. What does the literature indicate to be appropriate definitions of "effectiveness" in teacher
education? (Such definitions might encompass, for example, impact on student teacher
learning or satisfaction, impact of teacher education graduates on the learning of their
students, measures of new teacher retention, etc.)
2. What different recruitment models are used by TFA schemes, including academic
requirements, and how do these compare with recruitment to traditional secondary teacher
education programmes?
We use the term initial teacher education (ITE) to refer to what is also commonly called initial teacher training (ITT),
initial teacher preparation (ITP), initial teacher education and training (ITET) and pre‐service training or simply, teacher
education. For this review, we use the various terms interchangeably, for reasons of context or style. We also use the
terms "student teacher," "preservice teacher," "prospective teacher," "trainee," and "trainee teacher" interchangeably
to refer to those undertaking ITE programs.
The CLCD, MU and the review authors are not aware of any conflict of interest between the Centre, the University or
its researchers and PPTA. Equally, the CLCD, MU and review authors have no connection with, and no stake in, the
operation of alternative or fast track routes to initial teacher education in New Zealand, Australia or elsewhere,
including those that could be characterised as fast track schemes. All three authors have worked in "traditional"
university‐based teacher education for many years; two (Price and Woods‐McConney) also have extensive experience
as classroom teachers, and one (Woods‐McConney) co‐led the development and operation of a competency‐based
alternative teacher preparation scheme (Troops to Teachers) at Western Oregon University in the mid‐1990s.
3. What different models of TFA training schemes exist, and what evidence exists to show the
relative effectiveness or otherwise of these schemes?
4. What comparative research exists to show the effectiveness of fast‐track teacher education
(i.e., TFA) compared with the one‐year graduate programmes normally used in New Zealand
for preparation for secondary teaching?
5. What evidence exists about whether TFA models of teacher education have impacted
positively on the recruitment and retention of high quality teachers in hard‐to‐staff schools?
6. What impact has the rise of TFA models of teacher education had on existing
university/college‐based models of teacher education?
7. What evidence exists about the motivations and influence of philanthropic foundations on
TFA at an international level and at the level of individual schemes?
8. What evidence exists about relationships between TFA programmes and professional teacher
associations/teacher unions in relevant countries?
Given these questions and the existing literature surrounding teacher preparation and early
career teacher development, a strong focus for this review is the comparative effectiveness of
traditional and alternative 4 (fast track or Teach For All) approaches. In particular, we have
endeavoured to focus on evidence‐based comparisons of the outcomes of teacher education,
including recruitment and retention in the profession and the effectiveness of graduates in
fostering student learning and development. In keeping with PPTA's interests, we have also
emphasised when possible research on fast track programmes for secondary rather than primary
school teaching. Further, in answering particular questions about the comparative effectiveness
of teachers or ITE programs, we have endeavoured to assess the quality of evidence provided by
each relevant study, including analysis of the genesis of the research and whether there may be
indication of bias as a result.
Importantly, we have designed this review of the research literature to be robust in two ways:
1. an international panel of three educational researchers with expertise in the provision of
initial teacher education—including knowledge of those approaches that can be
characterised as fast track schemes—reviewed the list (annotated bibliography) of studies
initially included, to ensure the comprehensiveness of the review;
2. where feasible, the review's authors have assessed relevant empirical studies that include
outcomes of fast track TFA ITE schemes in terms of the strength and/or quality of the
evidence each study provides.
In these two ways, we have attempted to ensure that this review of the research literature is both
comprehensive (at an international level), as well as useful in terms of allowing differentiation
between the strength and/or quality of evidence provided by various studies included in the
review, and regarding the topics of interest to the PPTA.
As recently explained by Glass (2008), alternative teacher certification is generally understood as a program leading to
a teaching certificate (or license) designed for persons who have not followed a traditional path through pre‐service
teacher training programs. Typically, alternative routes to teacher certification require significantly less time than
traditional routes. In the US, Glass noted that there were more than 140 alternative routes to certification or
provisional certification. Similarly, Owings, Kaplan, Nunnery, Marzano, Myran and Blackburn (2006) define an
alternative certification program (ACP) as any pathway to a teaching certificate that falls outside the full‐time, 4‐ or 5‐
year traditional teacher preparation programs, and counted 538 ACPs in the US in 2004.
As foregrounded by PPTA in its request for proposals for this review, the last couple of decades
have witnessed the rapid spread and development of alternative and fast‐track teacher education
schemes around the world. The design and worldwide expansion of such schemes has been led,
and made highly visible, in part by an international organisation know as Teach For All
(www.teachforall.org). TFA's website currently lists 18 countries that have initiated versions of
such schemes, including Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, China, Estonia, Germany,
India, Israel, Latvia, Lebanon, Malaysia, Pakistan, Peru, Spain, the UK, and the USA. TFA's
programs operate under a variety of names, including: Teach For America, Teach For Australia,
Teach For Bulgaria, Teach First UK, Teach First Deutschland, etc.
In general, TFA schemes are typified by short, intensive periods of initial training (usually a 5‐ or
6‐week residential programme during the summer months), and subsequent, sometimes
substantial, on‐the‐job training during which trainees (also called TFA associates in the UK and
Australia, or corps members in the US) have full responsibility for their students' learning.
Typically, the schemes recruit recent graduates (with Bachelor's degrees) from leading
universities and after a short period of intensive training, places them to teach for at least a
couple of years in hard to staff, remote or low socioeconomic (SES) area schools (i.e., schools that
are experiencing challenging circumstances). Generally, TFA teachers begin teaching with an
initial, provisional or temporary certification (e.g., USA) or as paraprofessionals (e.g., Australia)
and most will have gained regular teacher certification/registration by the end of their two‐year
teaching commitment.
Fast track TFA schemes have made various strong claims about being successful approaches to
teacher education, based on a number of studies done internationally, sometimes commissioned
by the schemes themselves, and often funded by one or more philanthropic foundations. The
most recent example is an evaluation of second year TFA teachers conducted by researchers at
the Universities of Southampton and Manchester, titled Maximum Impact Evaluation: The impact
of Teach First teachers in schools (Muijs, Chapman, Collins, & Armstrong, 2010). This evaluation
study was funded for Teach First UK by the Goldman Sachs Foundation. The evaluation asserts, for
example, that Teach First is having a positive impact on schools in challenging circumstances, and
also claims that the Maximum Impact report provides statistical evidence of the link between the
presence of Teach First UK teachers and improved student attainment, as measured by General
Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) results.
In the case of New Zealand, Teach First NZ Trust is currently working with Auckland University to
develop a similar fast track scheme. According to the PPTA, Teach First NZ Trust documentation
indicates that it has been working with TFA's Early Stage Relations team since 2009, and aims to
form an official partnership by mid‐2011. Additionally, Teach First NZ has secured support from
the Tindall Foundation and the Aotearoa Foundation, and corporate support from Chapman Tripp,
Deloitte, KPMG and Creo Communications. Also according to the PPTA, TFA hopes to have an
initial teacher training scheme in place in New Zealand by the 2013 school year, with the first
cohort of recruits enrolled in a six‐week residential summer programme towards the end of 2012,
in preparation for teacher placements in schools at the start of the 2013 school year.
5. Literature Review Method
The methodological approach used for this systematic review of the empirical research
literature on fast track (TFA) teacher education schemes comprised several interrelated and
complementary steps, as follows:
Step 1: initial search of the research literature. First, the principal investigators conducted an
extensive search of the extant research literature using a variety of strategies. The search
strategies included:
•   Extensive Search of Electronic Databases: we first identified key words and/or phrases
for the topic (Fast Track Teacher Education Schemes, TFA) and searched a variety of well
established electronic databases for relevant empirical research studies. The main search
phrases we used included:
o   fast track teacher education and its variants, such as fast track teacher
preparation, fast track teacher training or fast track teacher certification;
o   alternative teacher education and its variants, such as alternative teacher
preparation, alternative teacher training or alternative teacher certification;
o   Teach For All, Teach For America, Teach For Australia, Teach First UK, etc.
Other keywords used in combination with these main search phrases included research,
effectiveness (and its variants, such as effects or effective) and outcomes. In the main, for
the initial electronic search, major education‐related research databases were accessed
via Murdoch University's library portal. These education databases included:
9 A+ Education, a database built on the Australian Education Index produced by the
Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) that provides indexes and
abstracts of published and unpublished material on all levels of education and
related fields, and that includes information published in Australia and Australian
content published internationally.
9 Academic OneFile, a multidisciplinary collection of journals (many of them peer‐
reviewed) and reference sources.
9 British Education Index which provides access to all of the Index's records for
education‐related texts, freely available internet resources, and the most recently
indexed journal articles not yet included in the full BEI subscription database.
9 CBCA Education, a database of Canadian education journals, magazines and
newsletters that includes information on teaching, educational research, and
educational administration.
9 ERIC, the US‐based Education Resources Information Center sponsored by the US
Department of Education that is arguably the largest electronic database globally
that indexes and abstracts international documents and journal articles on all
levels of education, education research and related subjects.
9 ProQuest, a multidisciplinary collection of journals, magazines and theses,
including many business, management and economics resources that includes
ABI/INFORM Global and Dissertations and Theses.
9 SAGE Journals Online, a multidisciplinary collection of journals, including many
education, humanities, social sciences, science, and technology titles.
In addition, other databases—perhaps less uniquely focused on education issues—such as
JSTOR and Web of Knowledge, were also included in the initial and subsequent electronic
searches. In addition to searching established academic databases, commonly used
internet search engines such as Google Scholar http://scholar.google.com were also
utilized, particularly as a means of comparing search results generated from academic
databases accessible via the MU library portal versus those generated outside of that
portal;
•    Conference Proceedings: we also conducted searches of the archived conference
proceedings and other publications of topic‐relevant associations, such as the American
Educational Research Association (AERA), the Australian Association for Research in
Education (AARE), and the British Educational Research Association (BERA);
•    Hand Searches: we conducted hand searches of the past 20 years (on average) of the
most prominent, core journals for teacher education research such as Journal of Teacher
Education and Teaching and Teacher Education, as well as highly regarded reference
works such as the Handbook of Research on Teacher Education and the Teacher Education
Yearbook (VIII) for empirical studies of alternative, fast track, or TFA schemes in teacher
•    Website Searches: we searched the websites of relevant organizations whose work or
research encompasses the topic area, including the New Zealand Council for Educational
Research (NZCER), the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER), the
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the ten regional
laboratories funded by the federal Institute of Education Sciences in the US, and, the
websites of TFA programmes themselves.
In the initial search of the research literature, we endeavoured to maintain focus on the primary
research5 literature related to the topic at hand. We did also recognize, however, that the studies
that we located varied in their direct relatedness to examining fast track TFA schemes, and also
that there was variation in the rigor, scale and design quality of the empirical studies that did
examine such schemes. As a result, identified studies that appeared generally relevant to fast
track TFA schemes in teacher education were then further screened regarding the relevance of
the research topic and design, the relevance of the study participants to the populations of
interest, the timeliness of the study, and the relevance and validity of any outcome measures. In
this way, the studies (journal articles, research reports, conference papers) that resulted from our
initial search were screened to prioritise studies that empirically examine the effectiveness of fast
track ITE schemes, and in particular, Teach For All (TFA) programs.
Some non‐empirical studies were also included if they pointed up, conceptualised, or elaborated
the challenges, benefits and/or limitations faced by fast track schemes, or alternatively, the
context within which TFA schemes have developed and grown. Together, empirical and
non‐empirical studies were used to develop an initial annotated bibliography around alternative
or fast track TFA routes to ITE, with emphasis on both proximal and distal outcomes and on
teacher education for secondary (high school) teaching.
Step 2: external review. As an external check on the comprehensiveness of the research literature
gathered and screened by the principal investigators, and the resulting annotated bibliography, a
Primary research refers to those studies reported in the literature that were authored by the researchers themselves;
this is in contrast to secondary sources, such as reference works or handbooks of research in which the author(s) may
be different from the researcher(s) who conducted the study being reported.
small group (3) of leading experts in ITE provision, and research surrounding ITE, were contacted
and asked to review the annotated bibliography initially generated (see Appendix A). Further, the
reviewers were asked to suggest relevant articles, books and/or reports that they believe
important to the topic, but which were missing from our initial list.
The group of external reviewers included:
1.    David Berliner, Regents' Professor Emeritus of Education at Arizona State University (USA).
Professor Berliner is a member of the National Academy of Education, a Fellow of the
Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and a past president of both the
American Educational Research Association (AERA) and the Division of Educational
Psychology of the American Psychological Association (APA). He is the recipient of awards
for distinguished contributions from APA, AERA, and the National Education Association
(NEA). Emeritus Professor Berliner holds expertise in educational psychology, teacher
education, and educational policy.
2.    Marie Cameron, independent researcher with NZCER. Dr. Cameron has expertise in teacher
education and professional learning, educational leadership and school development,
literacy, and the evaluation of educational initiatives. Dr. Cameron has worked on several
projects with NZCER teams, and is currently leading a longitudinal study of 60 primary and
secondary teachers beginning their third year of teaching.
3.    Andrew J. Hobson, Professor in the Department of Teacher Education at Sheffield Hallam
University. Professor Hobson's research is concerned predominantly with the experiences
of and support for trainee, new and recently qualified teachers. He has particular interests
in teacher mentoring and wellbeing, has published widely, and has led several significant
research and evaluation projects in this field. Professor Hobson reviews for or sits on the
editorial advisory board of a number of international peer reviewed journals in education.
The external reviewers are all highly regarded experts in research on initial teacher education and
were representative of a range of national contexts (USA, New Zealand, and UK) in which fast
track TFA schemes (and other alternative routes to initial teacher preparation) have been
operating, or are under development. Their qualifications and expertise helped ensure that this
review of the literature comprehensively addresses the research questions asked about fast track
schemes generally and TFA schemes in particular.
Step 3: additional gathering of relevant research, and assessment of the quality of studies. As a
result of the expert panel external review in Step 2, the list of studies included in the annotated
bibliography and reviewed for this report was re‐examined, taking account of recommendations
made by the panel. In all, about a dozen relevant studies that had been missed in the first
instance were then gathered for inclusion in the final bibliography and synthesis of research on
fast track (TFA) ITE. Following external review and finalization of the list of studies to be included
for this report, and where feasible and relevant, empirical studies providing answers to the
questions posed by PPTA for the review were assessed for the strength and quality of evidence
Step 4: draft and final reports. The review findings were then synthesized to form a coherent
report framework, and the annotated bibliography and draft report provided to the PPTA on
24 November, 2011. As previously described, the literature review is structured around providing
straightforward answers to the eight questions of interest posed by the PPTA, as this would seem
the most accessible and potentially useful structure for intended audiences. Upon receiving
feedback on the draft report from the PPTA, a final version of the report on fast track TFA
schemes was delivered on 30 November, 2011 in both electronic and paper formats.
6. Literature Review Findings
The published research literature about the nature of teaching as a profession, teachers'
professional duties and responsibilities, what it means to be an effective teacher, and what
constitutes appropriate and effective teacher education is immense. Clearly, it is beyond the
scope or mandate of this review to examine all of this literature, being focused as it is on fast
track teacher education schemes generally, and Teach For All (TFA) schemes particularly. It seems
equally clear that much of this territory remains highly contested, including the published
literature related to the nature and structure of initial training provided for those wanting to
teach in the schools.
We also believe, however, that there are nevertheless core ideas about the profession of teaching
that are widely agreed on. These points are reflected in the standards for graduating and
experienced teachers developed by organizations that oversee teacher education such as the
Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership (AITSL), the National Council for the
Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE), the National Board for Professional Teaching
Standards (NBPTS), the Interstate New Teacher Assessment Support Consortium (INTASC), and
the New Zealand Teachers Council (NZTC). Additionally, these core propositions about teachers
and their work are anchored to our collective experience as teacher educators, teacher education
researchers, and teachers in the schools. It therefore seems appropriate, and potentially helpful,
to first stipulate what we believe to be commonly‐held views about teachers' work that
potentially will provide a more manageable, if not agreeable, context for this review of fast track
TFA schemes. Specifically, we believe that the following points about teachers' work can be
stipulated with a high degree of confidence:
•   Teaching is a complex profession that requires both specialized and wide ranging
knowledge and skills, and personal and professional dispositions that develop over time;
•   Teachers' knowledge of the subject(s) they teach is critically important, particularly at
high school and beyond.
•   In addition to knowing their subjects, successful teachers manage and assess student
learning, identify learning goals, and choose among instructional approaches to meet
those goals;
•   Successful teachers are reflective in their teaching, and evaluate their decisions and
experiences to make evidence‐based adjustments in their teaching; and,
•   Successful teachers understand their contexts, and that they are part of a larger learning
community including school administrators and teachers, students and parents, and the
broader community.
Thus, although this current review of the literature overlaps, to varying degrees, the literature
associated with teachers' work, teachers' initial preparation and licensing to undertake that work,
teachers' quality and effectiveness, and teaching as a profession in its own right, it does not
address any of these important topics with great specificity and/or depth. Rather, in
endeavouring to maintain a focused responsiveness to the needs of the PPTA, this review
specifically examines what is currently known about Fast Track Teacher Education, with particular
focus on Teach For All schemes, and with a particular orientation to the comparative
effectiveness of these programmes and the teachers they produce. As such, the review that
follows is structured to provide the best answers possible, based on current evidence and
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Property reality shows have always enjoyed a large audience as it gives us unprecedented access to properties and houses that we otherwise would hardly set foot in. 'Luxe Listings Sydney' does just that by taking the viewer on a tour of Sydney's most luxurious and costly homes. It focuses on the top real-estate agents of Australia, D'Leanne Lewis, Gavin Rubinstein, and Simon Cohen, as they engage the owners in an exciting game of negotiation and counter-offers in their efforts to get a hold of the properties. If the show makes you wonder where these outstanding properties are located, we come bearing answers.
Luxe Listings Sydney Filming Locations
A show that uses real-life multimillion-dollar properties as a backdrop, 'Luxe Listings Sydney' is naturally filmed on location at the various houses that feature on the show. With most properties located in and around Sydney in Australia, the filming crew wanted to give viewers an authentic lifestyle experience of the rich and famous. Thus, every shot in the series, be it indoor or outdoor, is original and not a recreation. Let's take a closer look at the exact locations where the show is filmed, shall we?
Shot on location at Sydney's Eastern Suburbs, a metropolitan area that lies to the east and southeast of The Sydney Central Business District (CBD), we are taken into the world of multi-million dollar living right from the get-go. Home to the world-famous Bondi Beach and the University of New South Wales, the Eastern Suburbs boasts of being the home to the highest echelon of Sydney's community.
The first house that we are taken to is the Dover Heights House. Located in Dover Heights with a fantastic view of the Eastern Suburbs, the filming crew perfectly captures the luxurious five-bedroom property for us to feast our eyes on. Next up on our list is the Vaucluse House, a stunning 19th-century mansion surrounded by lavish gardens and woods on Wentworth Road, Vaucluse. Interestingly, this multimillion-dollar property served as the former Greek Embassy in Sydney.
Vaucluse House
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The IT giant needs to show tangible progress in order to win back investors.
Even though shares of International Business Machines (NYSE:IBM) are up about 12.5% year to date, trouncing the broader market, the past five years have been painful for investors. IBM stock has tumbled about 10% in that time, compared to a 77% gain for the S&P 500. Dividends have helped to soften the blow, but calling IBM's performance disappointing would be an understatement.
IBM is facing the challenge of transforming into a company that can thrive in the age of cloud computing. Revenue and profits have been tumbling, driven by declines in legacy businesses, and investors are right to question whether IBM's long-term strategy is sound. Can IBM turn things around and return to growth? Or will a rapidly changing technological landscape render the company obsolete?
IBM's revenue has declined on a year-over-year basis for 17 straight quarters. The declines have been small, adjusting for currency and divestitures, but shrinking revenue is never a good thing. There are parts of IBM's business that are growing rapidly, namely the company's various strategic imperatives, but the ongoing decline of legacy businesses is dragging down sales.
Profits are in decline as well. IBM expects to produce at least $13.50 in adjusted earnings per share this year, down from $14.92 in 2015 and $16.53 in 2014. Declining sales in legacy businesses and investments being made in growth areas like cloud computing are responsible for the deterioration in IBM's profitability.
It's not all doom and gloom, though. IBM's strategic imperatives now account for 38% of total revenue, and while growth has slowed down, the collection of businesses still grew revenue by 12% year over year during the second quarter. Total cloud revenue soared 30%, while cloud-delivered-as-a-service annual run rate jumped 50% to $6.7 billion. IBM offers infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) through SoftLayer and platform-as-a-service (PaaS) through Bluemix, and much of its software is now offered as a service as well.
Unfortunately, this growth hasn't been enough to counteract weakness in other parts of the business. IBM is a lumbering giant, spanning hardware, software, and services, making the process of transitioning its business a slow and painstaking one. The good news for investors is that the overall strategy makes sense.
IBM's cloud strategy is very different from that of Amazon Web Services, the leading provider of infrastructure-as-a-service. While Amazon aims to be the lowest-cost provider, IBM has no interest in competing in markets where price is the only meaningful differentiating factor. Instead, IBM is focused on delivering high-value products and services to its enterprise customers.
Watson is the most high-profile cloud service offered by IBM. The company doesn't break out revenue generated by the cognitive computing system, most likely because it's not yet very impressive. But IBM expects Watson to become a major business in the long run. The system is being used in a wide variety of industries, most notably healthcare, and it's available in the form of various services on the IBM's cloud platforms.
For IBM, the goal is not to simply build the biggest cloud. The company's IaaS and PaaS platforms enable the high-value services that will differentiate IBM from other cloud computing vendors. In the short term, IBM's results will almost certainly continue to be lumpy and disappointing. But these types of transformations are never quick and easy.
As an IBM shareholder, I believe that the company is on the right path. This doesn't guarantee that the company will be successful, though. IBM has a large base of enterprise clients in a wide variety of industries that are dependent on the company's products and services. Switching costs are meaningful, but as those clients transition to the cloud, IBM needs to ensure that its cloud is appealing. Otherwise, it could start bleeding enterprise clients, which would erode its competitive advantage.
IBM needs to return to growth sooner rather than later for the market to give it credit for its transformation. If revenue and earnings declines drag on, the stock could drop as investors become more pessimistic. On the other hand, if this year turns out to be the bottom, with earnings growth returning in 2017, the pessimism driving down the stock could disappear.


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Athletic recruitment is not the problem: If you want to change the demographics of athletic teams, change the demographics of the school
Sarah Lyell
In an opinion piece two weeks ago entitled "Let's lose the Directors' Cup," Katherine Hatfield '22 raises interesting questions about the often problematic nature of athletics at Williams. I agree with many of the issues she raises, but I believe she misidentifies the cause of these problems. Athletic recruitment is not the problem. The true issue lies in Williams' admissions process as a whole.
While it is true that certain sports teams are predominantly made up of white students who attended prep schools, the claim that Williams lowers academic standards for athletic recruits is completely unfounded. We do not have statistics which demonstrate one way or another how recruited athletes' grades and test scores differ from the whole of the student body. All we have is the claim that "some 'non-ers' feel that some of their athletic peers do not deserve to be here." Aside from being wildly vague, is this really enough evidence to claim that athletic recruits are not academically qualified?
From my experience as a recruited athlete (albeit for a low-profile sport), I know that I was expected to have grades and test scores on par with the whole of the student body. Of course, without statistics, I cannot say with any kind of certainty whether my experience was universal. What I do know, however, is that if recruited athletes make up a third of the incoming class and are only a fraction of the group favored by admissions (including, but not limited to, legacy students, children of large donors, early decision applicants, underrepresented minorities, and students with an especially compelling talent), they cannot have significantly lower grades and test scores than the rest of the student body while Williams maintains its spot atop the U.S. News rankings.
Additionally, I find it hard to believe that having sports teams made up entirely of walk ons, as Hatfield suggests, would have any significant impact on the demographics of our sports teams. We would still have sports teams made up of students who had the resources to be academically qualified to get into Williams in the first place and pursue a sport (even if recreationally) in high school. In fact, I believe that if Williams lowered its academic expectations for athletes (which I am not advocating), then we would probably see an increase in otherwise underrepresented groups on athletic teams. After all, there are many high schoolers across the country who would meet the athletic standards of Williams, but whose parents cannot afford the private tutors and private schools that so many Williams students have had access to. According to a New York Times report from 2017, 18.1% of students at Williams come from families in the top 1% of income and 2.7% come from families in the top .1%. Instead of picking on athletics and athletes' perceived academic inferiority, we should examine the Williams admissions process as a whole, namely as one that favors wealthy students from the outset.
Sarah Lyell '23 is from Portland, OR.
Sarah Lyell,


Match ends, Montreal Impact 2, Seattle Sounders FC 2.
Attempt missed. Will Bruin (Seattle Sounders FC) right footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the right.
Second Half ends, Montreal Impact 2, Seattle Sounders FC 2.
Foul by Adrián Arregui (Montreal Impact).
Hand ball by Jordan Morris (Seattle Sounders FC).
Attempt blocked. Chad Marshall (Seattle Sounders FC) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Nicolás Lodeiro with a cross.
Corner, Seattle Sounders FC. Conceded by Wandrille Lefevre.
Attempt blocked. Oniel Fisher (Seattle Sounders FC) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked.
Oniel Fisher (Seattle Sounders FC) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Penalty conceded by Laurent Ciman (Montreal Impact) after a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty Seattle Sounders FC. Oniel Fisher draws a foul in the penalty area.
Stoppage in match (Seattle Sounders FC).
Chris Duvall (Montreal Impact) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt saved. Chad Marshall (Seattle Sounders FC) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Nicolás Lodeiro with a cross.
Corner, Seattle Sounders FC. Conceded by Ambroise Oyongo.
Attempt saved. Ignacio Piatti (Montreal Impact) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Matteo Mancosu.
Offside, Seattle Sounders FC. Osvaldo Alonso tries a through ball, but Harry Shipp is caught offside.
Corner, Seattle Sounders FC. Conceded by Víctor Cabrera.
Attempt missed. Matteo Mancosu (Montreal Impact) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Marco Donadel with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Montreal Impact. Conceded by Chad Marshall.
Attempt missed. Román Torres (Seattle Sounders FC) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Harry Shipp.
Foul by Oniel Fisher (Seattle Sounders FC).
Attempt missed. Harry Shipp (Seattle Sounders FC) left footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Joevin Jones.
Attempt saved. Ignacio Piatti (Montreal Impact) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Ambroise Oyongo.
Attempt missed. Clint Dempsey (Seattle Sounders FC) right footed shot from the centre of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Román Torres following a corner.
Second Half begins Montreal Impact 1, Seattle Sounders FC 0.
First Half ends, Montreal Impact 1, Seattle Sounders FC 0.
Offside, Montreal Impact. Hernán Bernardello tries a through ball, but Matteo Mancosu is caught offside.
Attempt missed. Marco Donadel (Montreal Impact) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Patrice Bernier.
Cristian Roldan (Seattle Sounders FC) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Stoppage in match Ambroise Oyongo (Montreal Impact) because of an injury.
Jordan Morris (Seattle Sounders FC) hits the right post with a right footed shot from the right side of the box. Assisted by Nicolás Lodeiro following a fast break.
Attempt saved. Clint Dempsey (Seattle Sounders FC) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Gustav Svensson with a cross.
Attempt saved. Hernán Bernardello (Montreal Impact) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Chris Duvall with a cross.
Corner, Seattle Sounders FC. Conceded by Chris Duvall.
Attempt blocked. Jordan Morris (Seattle Sounders FC) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Harry Shipp.
Hand ball by Hernán Bernardello (Montreal Impact).
Offside, Seattle Sounders FC. Clint Dempsey tries a through ball, but Nicolás Lodeiro is caught offside.
Attempt missed. Harry Shipp (Seattle Sounders FC) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Jordan Morris.
Attempt blocked. Patrice Bernier (Montreal Impact) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Hernán Bernardello (Montreal Impact) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Dominic Oduro (Montreal Impact).
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Pedro Gialdroni fue un director y autor teatral y actor de cine, radio y teatro uruguayo de larga trayectoria artística en Argentina.

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Nacido en Uruguay, Pedro Gildroni se crio en el ambiente teatral argentino a comienzos de la década del siglo XX, donde desplegó su talento y su poder de improvisación a la hora de imitar, lo que lo convirtió en uno de los mejores capocómicos de la época.

En cine se lució en rol de protagonista en algunas películas mudas junto a primeras figuras del momento como Luis Arata, Olinda Bozán, Nelo Cosimi, Elías Alippi, Tita Merello, Silvia Parodi, Camila Quiroga, Angelina Pagano, Francisco Ducasse, entre otros.

En teatro integra la compañía de Pablo Podestá y Orfilia Rico en 1905 y 1906, junto con Aída Bozán, Atilio Supparo, Ubaldo Torterolo, Herminia Mancini y otros. Luego forma parte de un núcleo de intérpretes con Ada Cornaro, José Brieva y José Petray, que ofrecían sus espectáculos en la vieja sala del Nacional Norte de la calle Santa Fe. En 1915 pasó a integrar la "Compañía Juan Mangiante-María Esther Buschiazzo", junto con María Elena Ramírez, Herminia Mancini, Amalia Bernabé, Jacinta Diana, Nicolás Fregues, Ángel Quartucci, Esteban Gil Quesada y Pedro Quartucci, entre otros. En 1922 crea, actúa y dirige su propia compañía teatral con obras como El cabo Scamione (adaptación de Florencio Parravicini), La ilusión de Sabatucci de su propia autoría, Un gran señor de Ricardo Hicken y Una suegra ideal de Guillermo Bianchi.

Filmografía
 1916: Resaca, donde aprendió a bailar el tema "La Tierrita".
 1917: El Conde Orsini.
 1918: Buenos Aires tenebroso.
 1919: En buena ley.

Teatro
 La esquila, zarzuela en un acto de Trejo y Reynoso. En esta obra hizo su debut interpretando a Don Fulgencio.
 Tango compadrón dedicado por parte de A. Metallo.
 En familia (1905), de Florencio Sanchez, con la Compañía de Pablo Podestá. Estrenada en el Teatro Apolo.
 Alma gaucha.
 Las píldoras de Hércules.
 Tormentas de verano
 La pasión de Cristo (1905).
 Mala laya (1911), estrenada en el Teatro Nacional.
 Resaca (Versión teatral) (1915).
 Rozas (1916).
 Juvenilla (1920).
 La hermana Josefina (1939).

Referencias

Actores de cine de Argentina
Actores de teatro de Argentina
Directores de teatro de Argentina
Actores de cine de Uruguay
Actores de teatro de Uruguay

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Marc Brysbaert
A Surface-based Analysis of Language Lateralization and Cortical Asymmetry
Douglas N. Greve, Lise Van der Haegen, Qing Cai, Steven Stufflebeam, Mert R. Sabuncu ...
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience (2013) 25 (9): 1477–1492.
Among brain functions, language is one of the most lateralized. Cortical language areas are also some of the most asymmetrical in the brain. An open question is whether the asymmetry in function is linked to the asymmetry in anatomy. To address this question, we measured anatomical asymmetry in 34 participants shown with fMRI to have language dominance of the left hemisphere (LLD) and 21 participants shown to have atypical right hemisphere dominance (RLD). All participants were healthy and left-handed, and most (80%) were female. Gray matter (GM) volume asymmetry was measured using an automated surface-based technique in both ROIs and exploratory analyses. In the ROI analysis, a significant difference between LLD and RLD was found in the insula. No differences were found in planum temporale (PT), pars opercularis (POp), pars triangularis (PTr), or Heschl's gyrus (HG). The PT, POp, insula, and HG were all significantly left lateralized in both LLD and RLD participants. Both the positive and negative ROI findings replicate a previous study using manually labeled ROIs in a different cohort [Keller, S. S., Roberts, N., Garcia-Finana, M., Mohammadi, S., Ringelstein, E. B., Knecht, S., et al. Can the language-dominant hemisphere be predicted by brain anatomy? Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 23, 2013–2029, 2011]. The exploratory analysis was accomplished using a new surface-based registration that aligns cortical folding patterns across both subject and hemisphere. A small but significant cluster was found in the superior temporal gyrus that overlapped with the PT. A cluster was also found in the ventral occipitotemporal cortex corresponding to the visual word recognition area. The surface-based analysis also makes it possible to disentangle the effects of GM volume, thickness, and surface area while removing the effects of curvature. For both the ROI and exploratory analyses, the difference between LLD and RLD volume laterality was most strongly driven by differences in surface area and not cortical thickness. Overall, there were surprisingly few differences in GM volume asymmetry between LLD and RLD indicating that gross morphometric asymmetry is only subtly related to functional language laterality.
Interhemispheric Communication Influences Reading Behavior
Lise Van der Haegen, Qing Cai, Michaël A. Stevens, Marc Brysbaert
We can read words at an amazing speed, with the left hemisphere taking the burden of the processing in most readers (i.e., over 95% of right-handers and about 75% of left-handers). Yet, it is a long-standing question whether word reading in central vision is possible without information transfer between the left and right hemispheres (LH/RH). Here we show that such communication is required by comparing word naming latencies and eye movement data of people with LH language dominance and a unique sample of healthy RH dominant people. The results reveal that individuals with LH speech dominance name words faster when they are allowed to fixate at the word beginning, whereas RH dominants are faster for fixations toward the end. In text reading, the eyes of LH dominants land more to the left than the eyes of RH dominants, making more information directly available to the dominant hemisphere. We conclude that the traditional view of bilateral projections in central vision is incorrect. In contrast, interhemispheric communication is needed in central vision, and eye movements are adjusted to optimize information uptake. Our findings therefore call into question the explanation of macular sparing in hemianopia based on a bilaterally projecting fovea. In addition, these results are in line with the increase of white matter in the splenium of the corpus callosum when people learn to read.
Cerebral Lateralization of Frontal Lobe Language Processes and Lateralization of the Posterior Visual Word Processing System
Qing Cai, Michal Lavidor, Marc Brysbaert, Yves Paulignan, Tatjana A. Nazir
The brain areas involved in visual word processing rapidly become lateralized to the left cerebral hemisphere. It is often assumed this is because, in the vast majority of people, cortical structures underlying language production are lateralized to the left hemisphere. An alternative hypothesis, however, might be that the early stages of visual word processing are lateralized to the left hemisphere because of intrinsic hemispheric differences in processing low-level visual information as required for distinguishing fine-grained visual forms such as letters. If the alternative hypothesis was correct, we would expect posterior occipito-temporal processing stages still to be lateralized to the left hemisphere for participants with right hemisphere dominance for the frontal lobe processes involved in language production. By analyzing event-related potentials of native readers of French with either left hemisphere or right hemisphere dominance for language production (determined using a verb generation task), we were able to show that the posterior occipito-temporal areas involved in visual word processing are lateralized to the same hemisphere as language production. This finding could suggest top-down influences in the development of posterior visual word processing areas.
Foveal Word Reading Requires Interhemispheric Communication
Zoë R. Hunter, Marc Brysbaert, Stefan Knecht
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn.2007.19.8.1373
The left cerebral hemisphere is dominant for language processing in most individuals. It has been suggested that this asymmetric language representation can influence behavioral performance in foveal word-naming tasks. We carried out two experiments in which we obtained laterality indices by means of functional imaging during a mental word-generation task, using functional transcranial Doppler sonography and functional magnetic resonance imaging, respectively. Subsequently, we administered a behavioral word-naming task, where participants had to name foveally presented words of different lengths shown in different fixation locations shifted horizontally across the screen. The optimal viewing position for left language dominant individuals is located between the beginning and the center of a word. It is shifted toward the end of a word for right language dominant individuals and, to a lesser extent, for individuals with bilateral language representation. These results demonstrate that interhemispheric communication is required for foveal word recognition. Consequently, asymmetric representations of language and processes of interhemispheric transfer should be taken into account in theoretical models of visual word recognition to ensure neurological plausibility.


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Donald Lee Wrenn
Donald L. Wrenn, passed away peacefully on Tuesday, November 9, 2021 at the age of 84. He was a peninsula resident for most of his life. Donald was a member of the class of 1956 at Newport News High School where he participated in sports. He proudly served in the United States Air Force and traveled the world. He was kind and loving to his family and friends.
Donald was preceded in death by his parents, JR and Hazel Ramsey. He is survived by his daughter, Heather M. Wrenn; son, Brian D. Wrenn; and granddaughter, Kaylea Wrenn. He is also survived by his sister, Linda R. Boyd and many nieces, nephews and cousins.
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Home Sport Peru captain banned from World Cup for cocaine use
Peru captain banned from World Cup for cocaine use
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Peru will be without inspirational skipper, Paolo Guerrero, at the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia.
Guerrero, 33, was banned by FIFA's disciplinary committee after testing positive test for "cocaine metabolite benzoylecgonine".
The Flamengo striker, initially provisionally suspended for 30 days, will not only miss the Mundial in Russia but also other football events in the next one year.
A statement on FIFA's website on Friday reads: "On 7 December 2017, the FIFA Disciplinary Committee decided, after analysing all the specific circumstances of the case, to suspend the Peruvian international player Paolo Guerrero for one year.
"The player tested positive for cocaine metabolite benzoylecgonine, a substance included in WADA's 2017 Prohibited List under the class "S6. Stimulants", following a doping control test conducted after the match of the preliminary competition of the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia™ played in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on 5 October 2017.
"By testing positive for a prohibited substance, the player has violated article 6 of the FIFA Anti-Doping Regulations and, as such, contravened article 63 of the FIFA Disciplinary Code.
"The suspension period starts on 3 November 2017, the date on which the player was provisionally suspended by the chairman of the FIFA Disciplinary Committee. In line with article 29 of the FIFA Anti-Doping Regulations, the suspension covers, inter alia, all types of matches, including domestic, international, friendly and official fixtures. The terms of the decision were duly notified today."
Peru is drawn in Group C alongside France, Australia and Denmark.
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The overall rate of stroke in the USA has been declining in recent years. However, this may only be good news for men. Research published online in Neurology has found that while the stroke rate for men declined during the study period, for women it remained the same.
Recent figures from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show that stroke has decreased to the fifth leading cause of death for men yet it remains the fourth leading cause of death for women.
For the study, researchers collected data on adults with stroke from a population of 1.3 million people living in a five-county area of southwest Ohio and northern Kentucky between 1993 and 2010. They then looked at hospital, clinic and coroners' records to determine how many people had a first-ever stroke during four different one-year time periods, spaced approximately five years apart, during that time frame.
A total of 7,710 people had a first stroke, and 57% of those were women. Women had an average age at first stroke of 72. Men had an average age of 68.
Researchers found that overall stroke rates declined significantly for men but not women. For men, the rate went from 263 strokes per 100,000 men at the start of the study to 192 per 100,000 at the end of the study. For women, the rate went from 217 strokes per 100,000 women to 198 per 100,000, which is not a statistically significant difference.
For ischaemic strokes specifically, the researchers again found that the rate declined for men but not for women. The rate for men declined from 238 per 100,000 to 165 per 100,000. For women, the rate went from 193 per 100,000 to 173 per 100,000, which again was not statistically significant. For bleeding stroke, rates remained stable for both sexes.
One possible explanation for the study findings could be that stroke risk factors are not as well controlled in women as in men, though this would require more studies to determine, Madsen says. Another possible reason for the more pronounced rate decrease in men may be changes in the study population over the time period. The percentage of people who were able to live independently decreased significantly over time and more so in women than men.
Limitations of the study include that information was not collected on risk factors that are unique to or more common in women, such as migraine and the use of hormone replacement therapy.
Further research is needed to confirm the findings and to examine why the decrease was more pronounced in men.


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The first world war in literature
David Diop and Anna Moschovakis win the International Booker prize
"At Night All Blood is Black" takes the form of the testimony of a Senegalese tirailleur
A CENTURY AFTER it ended, stories about the first world war have at last begun to reflect the conflict's name. In history, fiction and film, the contribution of both fighting soldiers and behind-the-lines workers from African and Asian countries colonised by the European powers has belatedly come to the fore. On June 2nd, the award of the International Booker Prize for fiction confirmed this shift of perspective. The £50,000 ($71,000) annual prize, divided equally between the winning author and translator, went to "At Night All Blood is Black" by David Diop (pictured), a French author and academic, and Anna Moschovakis, an American translator.
Mr Diop, who was born in Paris but grew up in Senegal and now teaches French literature at the University of Pau and the Adour Region, enters the mind of a Senegalese infantryman in the French army posted to the western front. Around 200,000 tirailleurs (riflemen) from French West Africa took part in the war. Many units fought with exceptional bravery in the bloodiest battles, such as the Gallipoli campaign of 1915.
The novelist seeks to understand the trauma that can turn a trusting youngster from an African village into a killing machine and the aftermath of terrors both inflicted and endured. His narrator, Alfa Ndiaye, recounts his youth sheltered by the customs and beliefs of rural Senegal and his descent into fear and frenzy. Ripped from family and community, Alfa enters the hell of mechanised warfare where in order to survive he must "disobey the laws of humanity". The death of his inseparable childhood friend and "more-than-brother" Mademba pushes Alfa over the edge. His comrades start to regard him as "a sorcerer, a devourer of people's insides, a dëmm" (demon) as his vengeful fury frightens his own side as well as the Germans'.
Novels and memoirs of the Great War's dehumanising horror have been familiar to European readers since the 1920s, when works such as Henri Barbusse's "Under Fire" and Erich Maria Remarque's "All Quiet on the Western Front" rapidly acquired the status of classics of the carnage. Yet the special suffering of colonial troops, thrust into an alien slaughterhouse thousands of miles from home, remained for decades largely invisible in the literary and historical record. Works such as "The World's War" by David Olusoga, a British-Nigerian historian, have lately addressed that forgetting.
As Mr Diop's novel shows in his narrator's visceral, visionary testimony, industrialised massacre and colonial ideology combined to lay a peculiarly heavy burden on African combatants. France's Senegalese units were at the same time praised and cursed as ferocious "tribal" warriors. "The captain's France needs our savagery," muses Alfa, "and because we are obedient…we play the savage." Branded as primitive butchers to terrify the enemy, African troops also had to endure the condescending rhetoric of commanders and propagandists who treated them as meek, dutiful children of empire. Then came the shock of trench warfare itself.
Mr Diop, whose novel has already won awards including the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens in France and Italy's Premio Strega Europeo, conveys the overwhelming impact of wartime trauma on a bewildered young man in lyrical language, translated by Ms Moschovakis into rhythmic and dynamic English prose.


English zoologist Edward Blyth first described the bar-backed partridge in 1855. It has three subspecies: A. b. brunneopectus, described by Blyth in 1855; A. b. henrici, described by Émile Oustalet in 1896; and A. b. albigula, described by Cecil Boden Kloss and Herbert Christopher Robinson in 1919. These subspecies differ in colouration and patterns of their underparts and head, respectively. Some identify the chestnut-bellied partridge and grey-breasted partridge or even the Sichuan partridge or red-breasted partridge as superspecies of the bar-backed partridge.
The bar-backed partridge is typically 280 mm long in total, with an average wingspan of 144 mm for males and 134 mm for females of the species. They usually have 6 - 7 cm tails, and their bills are about 20 - 21 mm in length. On average, males have a 42 mm tarsus, while females have 39 mm.
The bar-backed partridge is found in Cambodia, China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam over an estimated 486000 km2.
Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. It is typically found at relatively low elevations, under 3000, but have been seen at 5000 and above.
They flock in groups of about 4–9, usually consisting of two parents and their latest offspring or sometimes two families. They feed on seeds, small shells, and insects found in leaves on the forest floor. When disturbed by humans, they quickly scatter into the underbrush. Captive male bar-backed partridges attract a mate by exposing the red feathers around their throat and calling. They breed around May to June, and their 37 by 28 mm eggs are usually laid in a hole covered with bamboo and grass.


Many young Christians feel close to God but struggle to find a church that feels like home.
They find themselves disillusioned with churches that are focused more on programs than the good news and become discouraged with a church that puts forth a feel-good gospel in a world that needs the hard truth about sin and the Savior. Author A. J. Kiesling has felt such disappointment and shares her story and those of others who have felt "burned out" from their traditional church experiences. Far from being merely a pity party, Kiesling notes that God uses these times of spiritual darkness to bring believers toward a brighter light. She even advises readers on how to find a church home where they truly feel at home. Jaded will resonate both with those who have attended church on a regular basis for many years and with individuals who have never found consistent Christian community but are spiritually hungry.


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Q: Footer at the bottom of page, if wrapper is absolute positioned I have such html structure:

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A: You should be able to do this:
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