Estimates of teacher "value-added" suggest teachers vary substantially in their ability to promote student learning …. Prompted by this finding, many states and school districts have adopted value-added measures as indicators of teacher job … height. We find the standard deviation of teacher effects on height is nearly as large as that for math and reading …

This paper proposes a new methodology for estimating teacher value-added. Rather than imposing a normality assumption … on unobserved teacher quality (as in the standard empirical Bayes approach), our nonparametric estimator permits the … nonparametric approach in practice using two separate large-scale administrative data sets, we find the estimated teacher value …

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

Most analyses of teacher quality end without any assessment of the economic value of altered teacher quality. This … paper combines information about teacher effectiveness with the economic impact of higher achievement. It begins with an … overview of what is known about the relationship between teacher quality and student achievement. This provides the basis for …

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 …

of assessing the impact of education quality, the teacher contribution to pupils' achievement and the effect of school …

I investigate the importance of the match between teachers and schools for student achievement. I show that teacher … effectiveness increases after a move to a different school, and I estimate teacher-school match effects using a mixed …-effects estimator. Match quality "explains away" a quarter of, and has two-thirds the explanatory power of teacher quality. Match …

. 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 …

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

Using longitudinal elementary school teacher and student data, we document that students have larger test score gains … within-teacher variation, we further show that a teacher's students have larger achievement gains in math and reading when … the own-teacher effect, results that suggest peer learning …