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Measuring the Impacts of Teachers I : Evaluating Bias in Teacher Value-Added Estimates

Chetty, Raj - 2013

-experimental design based on changes in teaching staff. Using school district and tax records for more than one million children, we find …

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Does Mentoring Reduce Turnover and Improve Skills of New Employees? Evidence from Teachers in New York City

Rockoff, Jonah E. - 2008

Mentoring has become an extremely popular policy for improving the retention and performance of new teachers, but we know little about its effects on teacher and student outcomes. I study the impact of mentoring in New York City, which adopted a nationally recognized mentoring program in 2004. I...

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What Does Certification Tell Us About Teacher Effectiveness? Evidence from New York City

Kane, Thomas J. - 2006

We use six years of data on student test performance to evaluate the effectiveness of certified, uncertified, and alternatively certified teachers in the New York City public schools. On average, the certification status of a teacher has at most small impacts on student test performance....

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Measuring the Impacts of Teachers II : Teacher Value-Added and Student Outcomes in Adulthood

Chetty, Raj - 2013

improve students' long-term outcomes. Using school district and tax records for more than one million children, we find that … the present value of students' lifetime income by approximately $250,000 per classroom …Are teachers' impacts on students' test scores ("value-added") a good measure of their quality? This question has …

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Still Worth the Trip? School Busing Effects in Boston and New York

Angrist, Joshua D.; Gray-Lobe, Guthrie; Idoux, Clemence M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

tried to integrate schools. Today, district-wide choice allows Boston and New York students to enroll far from home, perhaps …

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The Long-Term Distributional Impacts of a Full-Year Interleaving Math Program in Nigeria

Haar, Lotte van der; Gray-Lobe, Guthrie; Kremer, Michael; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This study reports the findings from a year-long randomized evaluation assessing the impact of assigning 62 classrooms in Nigeria to receive either blocked or interleaved math problem sets. Blocked practice sessions focused on a single skill at a time. Interleaved problem sets alternated between...

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Still worth the trip? : school busing effects in Boston and New York

Angrist, Joshua D.; Gray-Lobe, Guthrie; Idoux, Clemence M. - 2022

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Information and Employee Evaluation : Evidence from a Randomized Intervention in Public Schools

Rockoff, Jonah E. - 2010

which school principals were provided with estimates of the performance of individual teachers in raising their students …

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