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The Influence of School Administrators on Teacher Retention Decisions
This article explores the relationship between school contextual factors and teacher retention decisions in New York City. The methodological approach separates the effects of teacher characteristics…
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Teacher Sorting and the Plight of Urban Schools: A Descriptive Analysis
This paper uses rich new data on New York State teachers to: determine how much variation in the average attributes of teachers exists across schools, identify schools that have the least-qualified…
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Teacher Preparation and Student Achievement
There are fierce debates over the best way to prepare teachers. Some argue that easing entry into teaching is necessary to attract strong candidates, whereas others argue that investing in high…
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How Changes in Entry Requirements Alter the Teacher Workforce and Affect Student Achievement
We are in the midst of what amounts to a national experiment in how best to attract, prepare, and retain teachers, particularly for high-poverty urban schools. Using data on students and teachers in…
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The Narrowing Gap in New York City Teacher Qualifications and its Implications for Student Achievement in High-Poverty Schools
The gap between the qualifications of New York City teachers in high-poverty schools and low-poverty schools has narrowed substantially since 2000. Most of this gap-narrowing resulted from changes in…
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Explaining the Short Careers of High-Achieving Teachers in Schools with Low-Performing Students
Low-achieving students often are taught by the least-qualified teachers. These disparities begin when teachers take their first jobs, and in urban areas they are worsened by teachers’ subsequent…
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The Draw of Home: How Teachers&Apos; Preferences for Proximity Disadvantage Urban Schools
This paper explores a little-understood aspect of labor markets, their spatial geography. Using data from New York State, we find teacher labor markets to be geographically very small. Teachers…
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Who Leaves? Teacher Attrition and Student Achievement
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Using data for New York City schools from 2000-2005, it is found that first-year teachers whom the authors identify as less effective at improving student test scores have higher attrition rates than do more effective teachers in both low-ach achieving and high-achieving schools.
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Gifts of money and gifts of time estimating the effects of tax prices and available time
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The Effect of Certification and Preparation on Teacher Quality
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The authors conclude that the research evidence is simply too thin to have serious implications for policy and urge researchers and policymakers to work together to move to a more informed position where good resource decisions can be made.
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