. We offer a theoretical model justifying both reactions. Using data from 1991-2007 on licensing requirements and teacher …

This paper presents the first causal evidence on the effects of school accountability systems on teacher labor markets … accountability shocks influence the teacher labor market; specifically, teachers are more likely to leave schools that have been …

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

fire) bad ones. The leading method for assessing teacher quality is "value added" modeling (VAM), which decomposes students …' test scores into components attributed to student heterogeneity and to teacher quality. Implicit in the VAM approach are …

initially motivate this strategy in the context of teacher quality, but then generalize the model to consider educational … interventions more generally. Using administrative data that links students and teachers, we construct measures of teacher … effectiveness and then estimate the persistence of these teacher value-added measures on student test scores. We find that teacher …

analyze the importance of teacher quality at the postsecondary level. Instructors are matched to both objective and subjective … characteristics of teacher quality to estimate the impact of rank, salary, and perceived effectiveness on grade, dropout and subject … added and the variance of these effects to determine the extent to which any teacher difference matters to short …

In this paper, we compare subjective principal assessments of teachers to the traditional determinants of teacher … compensation ¡V education and experience ¡V and another potential compensation mechanism -- value-added measures of teacher … achievement significantly better than teacher experience, education or actual compensation, though not as well as value …

Much of education policy focuses on improving teacher quality, but most policies lack strong research support. We use … student achievement gains to estimate teacher value-added, our measure of teacher quality. The analysis reveals substantial … variation in the quality of instruction, most of which occurs within rather than between schools. Although teacher quality …

This paper investigates the effects of California's class size reduction program on teacher quality and student … both the direct effects of class size reduction and accompanying changes in teacher quality. The results show that, all … deterioration in average teacher quality in schools serving a predominantly black student body. This deterioration partially or, in …