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 …

In 2002 the career of Colombian public school teachers was significantly reformed through the introduction of a … students' high school performance. We exploit the fact that the novel regulation applied only to newly hired teachers, whereas … schools. Using data at the school-year-subject level, we eliminate any school-level confounders and associate the proportion …

We used a random-assignment experiment in Los Angeles Unified School District to evaluate various non …

. 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 …

public education. These schools feature a long school day, an extended school year, selective teacher hiring, strict behavior … Lynn, a KIPP charter school that is mostly Hispanic and has a high concentration of limited English proficiency (LEP) and …