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Teacher Quality Partnership (TQP) is a consortium of Ohio's fifty teacher-preparation institutions, lead by the University of Cincinnati, the University of Dayton, The Ohio State University, and Cleveland State University. TQP has links with and is supported by the Ohio Department of Education, and the Ohio Board of Regents, and the Office of the Ohio Governor, along with a number of teacher and administror professional organizations. The extensive collaboration required to support a research project of this scope is unprecedented. The TQP Board of Directors represent both public and private teacher education institutions: Dr. Lawrence J. Johnson, University of Cincinnati; Dr. Thomas Lasley, University of Dayton; and Dr. William Loadman, The Ohio State University. TQP has gathered a research team from top faculty and staff at thirteen public and private institutions in the state. An ideologically diverse External Audit Panel comprised of nationally known educational researchers and experts and an Ohio Advisory Board representing virtually all educational stakeholders in the state have been active in critiquing and monitoring development of the research plans.

The TQP will include school districts with whom partnerships are established for conducting research and planning professional development and for whom student performance data are made available to the TQP researchers. The TQP is a P-16 partnership, utilizing the resources of the K-12 sector along with those of the college and university sector in a joint effort to better understand teacher quality and to use these understandings to improve both the quality and equity of Ohio's 618 school districts.