public education. These schools feature a long school day, an extended school year, selective teacher hiring, strict behavior …

The education reform movement includes efforts to raise teacher quality through stricter certification and licensing … provisions. Most US states now require public school teachers to pass a standardized test such as the National Teacher … requirements on teacher quality are ambiguous. Teacher testing places a floor on whatever skills are measured by the required test …

. Most of this research focuses on the impact of teacher salaries, experience, and measures of teachers' pre-service training … paper, we estimate the effect of in-service teacher training on children's reading and mathematics achievement in Jerusalem … implemented on a smaller scale. The estimates for non-religious schools suggest that, at least in this case, teacher training …