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

outcomes for students. In this paper, we use value-added methods to examine the relationship between a school's effectiveness … differentially able to remove ineffective teachers. The results point to the importance of personnel, and perhaps, school personnel …

2006–07 school years, roughly 20,000 of whom left teaching during that time. Among grade 4–8 teachers leaving for other …

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

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 …

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 …