The literature on effective schools emphasizes the importance of a quality teaching force in improving educational …, we find that more effective schools are able to attract and hire more effective teachers from other schools when … vacancies arise. Second, more effective schools assign novice teachers to students in a more equitable fashion. Third, teachers …

schools and improve district performance, the power to involuntarily transfer teachers across schools remains hotly contested …. Little research has examined involuntary transfer policies or their effects on schools, teachers, or students. This article … uses administrative data from Miami-Dade County Public Schools to investigate the implementation and effects of the …

public schools, the two states offer a case study of how government provision compares to government subsidization alone …

to work in schools with higher achieving students from more advantaged socioeconomic backgrounds. Principals often use … schools with many poor or low-achieving students as stepping stones to what they view as more desirable assignments. We use … poverty schools, low-achieving schools, and schools with many inexperienced teachers. These schools not only suffer from high …