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of teacher candidates with undergraduate degrees in math. In response, some districts, including Baltimore, Philadelphia … who have not completed a teacher preparation program can become qualified to teach with only five to seven weeks of … coursework and practice teaching. Four years since its inception, the New York City Teacher Fellows Math Immersion program …
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Even as research has begun to document that teachers matter, there is less certainty about what attributes of teachers make the most difference in raising student achievement. Numerous studies have estimated the relationship between teachers' characteristics, such as work experience and academic...
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. Prior research on teacher transfers uses career history data, identifying the school in which a teacher teaches in each year …. When this data is used to see which teachers transfer, it is unclear the extent to which the patterns are driven by teacher …-to-transfer data to examine separately which teachers apply for transfer and which get hired and, in so doing, differentiates teacher …
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to attract strong candidates, while others argue that investing in high quality teacher preparation is the most promising …
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teachers with strong academic backgrounds in the Teaching Fellows program and Teach for America. The improvements in teacher … effect of teacher attributes using a value-added model, the analyses in this paper predict that observable qualifications of …, about half the difference between being taught by a first year teacher and a more experienced teacher. If limited to …
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Almost a quarter of entering public-school teachers leave teaching within their first three years. High attrition would be particularly problematic if those leaving were the more able teachers. The goal of this paper is estimate the extent to which there is differential attrition based on...
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the effects of pathways into teaching in New York City on the teacher workforce and on student achievement. We ask whether … a university-based teacher education program, teachers with reduced course work prior to entry often provide smaller …
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State, we find teacher labor markets to be geographically very small. Teachers express preferences to teach close to where … and training. We also discuss implications for the modeling of teacher labor markets, including the possible biases that …
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large gaps in our understanding of how teacher labor markets function. Most research on teacher labor markets use models … private sector. Collective bargaining and public decision making processes set teacher salaries. Thus it is unlikely that … develop and estimate a model that more accurately characterizes the institutional features of teacher labor markets. The …
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