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Attracting and Retaining Highly Effective Educators in Hard-to-Staff Schools

Morgan, Andrew J.; Nguyen, Minh; Hanushek, Eric Alan; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Efforts to attract and retain effective educators in high poverty public schools have had limited success. Dallas ISD addressed this challenge by using information produced by its evaluation and compensation reforms as the basis for effectiveness-adjusted payments that provided large...

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The Effects of Comprehensive Educator Evaluation and Pay Reform on Achievement

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Luo, Jin; Morgan, Andrew J.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

A fundamental question for education policy is whether outcomes-based accountability including comprehensive educator evaluations and a closer relationship between effectiveness and compensation improves the quality of instruction and raises achievement. We use synthetic control methods to study...

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The Plight of Mixed Race Adolescents

Fryer, Roland G, Jr - 2008

Over the past 40 years the fraction of mixed race black-white births has increased nearly nine-fold. There is little … empirical evidence on how these children fare relative to their single-race counterparts. This paper describes basic facts about … the plight of mixed race individuals during their adolescence and early adulthood. As one might expect, on a host of …

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An Empirical Analysis of 'Acting White'

Fryer, Roland G, Jr - 2005

There is a debate among social scientists regarding the existence of a peer externality commonly referred to as 'acting white.' Using a newly available data set (the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health), which allows one to construct an objective measure of a student's popularity,...

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