We examine earnings records for 90,000 classroom teachers employed by Florida public schools between the 2001-02 and … 2006-07 school years, roughly 20,000 of whom left teaching during that time. Among grade 4-8 teachers leaving for other … for the same teachers while in the classroom, suggesting that existing compensation systems do not account for the higher …

A growing number of American states require that students who do not demonstrate basic reading proficiency at the end …

Many American states require that students lacking basic reading proficiency after third grade be retained and … retained students are compared to their same-age peers, but remain substantial through grade 10 when compared to students in … the same grade. Being retained in third grade due to missing the promotion standard increases students' grade point …

Many American states require that students lacking basic reading proficiency after third grade be retained and … retained students are compared to their same-age peers, but remain substantial through grade 10 when compared to students in … the same grade. Being retained in third grade due to missing the promotion standard increases students' grade point …

A growing number of American states require that students who do not demonstrate basic reading proficiency at the end …

A growing number of American states require that students who do not demonstrate basic reading proficiency at the end …

school attended in grades 3 and 6, respectively. Consistent with recent evidence from other settings, we find that students … confirm that these achievement drops occur in non-urban areas and persist through grade 10, by which time most students have … students' performance trajectories …

that students moving from elementary to middle school suffer a sharp drop in student achievement in the transition year … achievement but do not alter students' performance trajectories …