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No Child Left Behind (NCLB) seems to be one of the most talked about and controversial educationalreforms in decades. NCLB is an elementary and secondary education act signed into law January 8,2002 designed to help close the achievement gap between disadvantaged students and their peers. Itrequires that teachers be considered "highly qualified" in the core academic subjects they teach. Ahighly qualified teacher according to NCLB is one who has a bachelor's degree, full state certificationand licensure, and has demonstrated competency in the subject area he or she teaches (U. S.Department of Education, 2004). However, it is unclear how these accomplishments make a teacheranything more than minimally qualified (Berry, 2002).

Providing new teacher induction is an important practice that is common in schools around the world(Wong, Britton, and Ganser 2005). Teacher induction and mentoring programs have been found toreduce the rate of new teacher attrition, increase job satisfaction, and efficacy (Ingersoll and Smith2004). Mentoring has been the main form of teacher induction used in the United States since the early1980?s (Fideler and Haselkorn1999).