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Measuring Returns to Experience Using Supervisor Ratings of Observed Performance : The Case of Classroom Teachers
Bell, Courtney A.; James, Jessalynn K.; Taylor, Eric S.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We study the returns to experience in teaching, estimated using supervisor ratings from classroom observations. We describe the assumptions required to interpret changes in observation ratings over time as the causal effect of experience on performance. We compare two difference-in-differences...
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Changing the Odds : Student Achievement after Introduction of a Middle School Math Intervention
Betts, Julian R.; Zau, Andrew C.; Bachofer, Karen Volz; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The paper evaluates math performance at four high-need middle schools during a four-year intervention, which was designed to help math teachers diagnose students' areas of need and to design lesson plans responsive to those needs. Before the intervention began, the researchers pre-selected four...
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In-Person Schooling and Youth Suicide : Evidence from School Calendars and Pandemic School Closures
Hansen, Benjamin; Sabia, Joseph J.; Schaller, Jessamyn - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
and the school calendar. We show that suicides among 12-to-18-year-olds are highest during months of the school year and … many K-12 schools returned to in-person instruction. Third, using county-level variation in school reopenings in Fall 2020 … and Spring 2021--proxied by anonymized SafeGraph smartphone data on elementary and secondary school foot traffic--we find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013477288
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The Narrowing Gap in New York City Teacher Qualifications and its Implications for Student Achievement in High-Poverty Schools
Boyd, Donald - 2008
The gap between the qualifications of New York City teachers in high-poverty schools and low-poverty schools has narrowed substantially since 2000. Most of this gap-narrowing resulted from changes in the characteristics of newly hired teachers, and largely has been driven by the virtual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464597
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Does Mentoring Reduce Turnover and Improve Skills of New Employees? Evidence from Teachers in New York City
Rockoff, Jonah E. - 2008
mentors. Although assignment of teachers to mentors was non-random, I use instrumental variables and school fixed effects to …, and student achievement. The most consistent finding is that retention within a particular school is higher when a mentor … has previous experience working in that school, suggesting that an important part of mentoring may be the provision of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464779
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Reducing Parent-School Information Gaps and Improving Education Outcomes : Evidence from High-Frequency Text Messages
Berlinski, Samuel G.; Busso, Matias; Dinkelman, Taryn; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
today, representing waste in school resources. We investigate whether reducing parent-school information gaps can improve … of positive classroom spillovers. Leveraging existing school inputs to implement a light-touch, cost …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012496135
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Integrating Minorities in the Classroom : The Role of Students, Parents, and Teachers
Gendre, Alexandra de; Karbownik, Krzysztof; Salamanca, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We develop a multi-agent model of the education production function where investments of students, parents, and teachers are linked to the presence of minorities in the classroom. We then test the key implications of this model using rich survey data and a mandate to randomly assign students to...
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A Community College Instructor Like Me : Race and Ethnicity Interactions in the Classroom
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2011
Detailed administrative data from a large and diverse community college are used to examine if academic performance depends on whether students are the same race or ethnicity as their instructors. To identify racial interactions and address many threats to internal validity we estimate models...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461277
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Stepping Stones : Principal Career Paths and School Outcomes
Béteille, Tara - 2011
More than one out of every five principals leaves their school each year. In some cases, these career changes are … longitudinal data from one large urban school district to study the relationship between principal turnover and school outcomes. We … find that principal turnover is, on average, detrimental to school performance. Frequent turnover of school leadership …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461414
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Teacher Incentives and Student Achievement : Evidence from New York City Public Schools
Fryer, Roland G. - 2011
the world. This paper describes a school-based randomized trial in over two-hundred New York City public schools designed …
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