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 …

absences, or exclude student absences altogether. Regardless of how between-school differences are accounted for, VAM … context of self-contained primary school classroom teachers. These results are consistent with recent research suggesting that …

organizations. Primary school classrooms provide an ideal context in which to test the predictions of representative bureaucracy … theory at the micro (student) level. Specifically, since parents have at least some agency over primary school students …' daily attendance, absences reflect parental assessments of their child's school, classroom, and teacher. The …

characteristics and levels of ability, students' relative rank within the classroom, and school context. High teacher grading …

Previous research shows that ethnic minority students perform poorer in school when they are taught by ethnic majority …

Previous research shows that ethnic minority students perform poorer in school when they are taught by ethnic majority …

Teachers are among the most important school-provided determinants of student success. Effective teachers improve … school leaders and education policymakers, and how the tools of applied economics can help address those challenges. The … effective teachers. We also discuss how different policies, incentives, school characteristics, and professional …

Improving the quality of instruction is a central component to virtually all proposals to raise school quality …

' involvement in school discipline is less understood. We estimate the impact of teacher demographics and other observed … identity of both the referred and referring individuals from a large and diverse urban school district in California, we find … middle school students. While it is unclear whether these findings are due to variation in teachers' effects on actual …

school teachers reaffirms these findings. Broadly, our findings suggest that the positive impact of Black teachers' ability …