In practice, teacher turnover appears to have negative effects on school quality as measured by student performance. However,...
Educators raise concerns about what happens to students when they are exposed to new teachers or teachers who...
The relatively low status of teaching as a profession is often given as a factor contributing to the difficulty of recruiting teachers, the...
Measures of teachers’ “value added” to student achievement play an increasingly central role in k-12 teacher policy and practice, in part because...
Many studies have estimated the relationship between teachers' characteristics (i.e., experience and academic performance) and their value-added...
When given the opportunity, many teachers choose to leave schools serving poor, low-performing, and minority students. While substantial research...
Teacher attrition has attracted considerable attention as federal, state and local policies- intended to improve student outcomes, increasingly...
There are fierce debates over the best way to prepare teachers. Some argue that easing entry into teaching is necessary to attract strong...
Value-added models in education research allow researchers to explore how a wide variety of policies and measured school inputs affect the...
This paper explores how the distribution of teacher qualifications and student achievement in New York City have changed from 2000 through 2005...
This study seeks to identify the characteristics and training experiences of teachers who are differentially effective at promoting academic...
Researchers and policymakers often assume that teacher turnover harms student achievement, but recent evidence calls into question this assumption...
There is increasing agreement among researchers and policymakers that teachers vary widely in their ability to improve student achievement, and...
Teachers in the United States are compensated largely on the basis of fixed schedules that reward experience and credentials. However, there is a...
