teacher value-added estimates are typically 25% to more than 50% larger for teachers serving initially higher performing … students compared to teachers with initially lower performing students. In addition, some differences are detected even when … compute teacher value-added. Finally, the paper offers a policy simulation which demonstrates that teachers who face students …

2011 will emphasize summative evaluation in Swedish schools, despite a strong discourse advocating formative assessment. …

We conducted an experiment in low-income schools in Chile to test the effects and behavioral changes triggered by a … scalable information intervention can improve education outcomes in lower-income settings. …

School safety and classroom disciplinary climate have a direct impact on teachers' ability to teach and students …

.S. schools. Using TVA estimates, we examine their associations with gender, teaching experience, age, and promotions of teachers … primary schools to investigate the empirical relationship between testscore TVA and observable traits and promotions of … teachers. Our empirical strategy employs Chetty, Friedman, and Rockoff (2014a) with school-year fixed effects as an additional …