possibility that inadequate information and a flawed structure each compromise public school quality. This study of school …

Improving the quality of instruction is a central component to virtually all proposals to raise school quality … quality by simultaneously loosening entry restrictions and introducing performance incentives for teachers and administrators. …

. We also find that good teachers tend to be effective with all student ability levels but that there is a positive value … of matching students and teachers by race. In the second part of the analysis, we show that teachers staying in our … introduction of more first year teachers. Finally, there is little or no evidence that districts that offer higher salaries and …

predominantly disadvantaged children, and a growing body of research investigates various components of turnover effects. The … that most work shows higher attrition for less effective teachers. This raises concerns that confounding factors bias … productivity loss following the reallocation of some incumbent teachers to different grades …

women's access to high-skill occupations outside teaching and to salary premiums for teachers …

consideration of the derived demand for teachers that comes from their impact on economic outcomes. Alternative valuation methods … with larger class sizes. Alternatively, replacing the bottom 5-8 percent of teachers with average teachers could move the U …

empirical analysis reveals that teachers who remain in their school tend to outperform those who leave, particularly those who … disadvantaged children. Although such schools experience higher turnover on average than others, the impact on the quality of … instruction depends crucially on whether it is the more productive teachers who are more likely to depart. The absence of direct …

Many school districts experience difficulties attracting and retaining teachers, and the impending retirement of a … substantial fraction of public school teachers raises the specter of severe shortages in some public schools. Schools in urban … factors that affect the probabilities that teachers switch schools or exit the public schools entirely. The results indicate …

School Project to investigate how shifts in salary schedules affect the composition of teachers within a district. The panel …Important policy decisions rest on the relationship between teacher salaries and the quality of teachers, but the … achievement holds (implausibly) for existing experienced teachers and not for new hires or for probationary teachers …

Considerable controversy surrounds the impact of schools and teachers on the achievement of students. This paper … effects and the impact of specific, measured components of teachers and schools. While schools are seen to have powerful … children in earlier grades but these effects are very small relative to the effects of overall teacher quality differences …