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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; Lankford, Hamilton; Loeb, Susanna; … - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003724943
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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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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/10012771743
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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/10012772367
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Does Mentoring Reduce Turnover and Improve Skills of New Employees? Evidence from Teachers in New York City
Rockoff, Jonah E. - 2011
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/10014042778
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Does Mentoring Reduce Turnover and Improve Skills of New Employees? Evidence from Teachers in New York City
Rockoff, Jonah E. - 2011
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/10014047437
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Teacher effects and teacher-related policies
Jackson, Clement; Rockoff, Jonah E.; Staiger, Douglas - In: Annual review of economics 6 (2014), pp. 801-825
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Information and employee evaluation : evidence from a randomized intervention in public schools
Rockoff, Jonah E.; Staiger, Douglas O.; Kane, Thomas J.; … - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008647594
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Information and employee evaluation : evidence from a randomized intervention in public schools
Rockoff, Jonah E.; Staiger, Douglas; Kane, Thomas J.; … - In: The American economic review 102 (2012) 7, pp. 3184-3213
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009714745
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Teacher Effects and Teacher-Related Policies
Kirabo Jackson, C. - 2014
The emergence of large longitudinal data sets linking students to teachers has led to rapid growth in the study of teacher effects on student outcomes by economists over the past decade. One large literature has documented wide variation in teacher effectiveness that is not well explained by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013049456