More than one out of every five principals leaves their school each year. In some cases, these career changes are … longitudinal data from one large urban school district to study the relationship between principal turnover and school outcomes. We … find that principal turnover is, on average, detrimental to school performance. Frequent turnover of school leadership …

opening of a nearby charter school. While I find small effects on turnover overall, difficult to staff schools (low …

features a long school day, an extended school year, selective teacher hiring, strict behavior norms, and a focus on … impact of KIPP Academy Lynn, a KIPP school in Lynn, Massachusetts that typifies the KIPP approach. Our analysis focuses on …

School closings displace thousands of teachers in the US every year. This paper explores how 3rd to 5th grade teachers … school closings in our study, we find that while most displaced teachers move to new schools in the same district, a … than white teachers. Although the primary goal of school closings is typically to move students out of declining or failing …

improve students' long-term outcomes. Using school district and tax records for more than one million children, we find that … students assigned to high-VA teachers in primary school are more likely to attend college, earn higher salaries, and are less …

issues by analyzing school district data from grades 3-8 for 2.5 million children linked to tax records on parent …

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 …