. Prompted by this finding, many states and school districts have adopted value-added measures as indicators of teacher job …

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

Many large urban school districts are rethinking their personnel management strategies, often giving increased control … to schools in the hiring of teachers, reducing, for example, the importance of seniority. If school hiring authorities …. Prior research on teacher transfers uses career history data, identifying the school in which a teacher teaches in each year …

public education. These schools feature a long school day, an extended school year, selective teacher hiring, strict behavior … Lynn, a KIPP charter school that is mostly Hispanic and has a high concentration of limited English proficiency (LEP) and …

Using longitudinal elementary school teacher and student data, we document that students have larger test score gains … when their teachers experience improvements in the observable characteristics of their colleagues. Using within-school and …

We used a random-assignment experiment in Los Angeles Unified School District to evaluate various non …

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 …

improve students' long-term outcomes. Using school district and tax records for more than one million children, we find that … students assigned to high-VA teachers in primary school are more likely to attend college, earn higher salaries, and are less …