Efforts to attract and retain effective educators in high poverty public schools have had limited success. Dallas ISD … schools. The Accelerating Campus Excellence (ACE) program offers salary supplements to educators with records of high … performance who are willing to work in the most educationally disadvantaged schools. We document that ACE resulted in immediate …

Studies of the charter school sector typically focus on head-to-head comparisons of charter and traditional schools at … improvements in the charter sector. We study quality changes among Texas charter schools between 2001 and 2011. Our results suggest … that the charter sector was initially characterized by schools whose quality was highly variable and, on average, less …

the Tennessee STAR data. The estimates show that students in higher poverty schools and with greater learning aptitude …

act. First, NCLB establishes benchmarks based on test score pass rates that schools must meet in order to remain in good … stock of public school teachers and the distribution of those teachers among schools. Second, NCLB explicitly requires … channel might be quite important, especially at low-performing schools where the stress of the accountability requirements is …