Teachers' Perceptions of Their Working Conditions: How Predictive of Policy-Relevant Outcomes?
From Urban Institute Latest Reports: This study uses data from North Carolina to examine the extent to which survey based perceptions of working conditions are predictive of policy-relevant outcomes, independent of other school characteristics such as the demographic mix of...
Before or After the Bell? : School Context and Neighborhood Effects on Student Achievement
From Urban Institute Latest Reports: This paper explores the relative effects of school and neighborhood characteristics on student achievement in Texas. School variables are more robust and explain a greater degree of the variance in test scores than neighborhood characteristics....
Teacher Mobility, School Segregation, and Pay-Based Policies to Level the Playing Field
From Urban Institute Latest Reports: Research has consistently shown that teacher quality is distributed very unevenly among schools to the clear disadvantage of minority students and those from low-income families. Using information on teaching spells in North Carolina, the authors...
Effective Schools: Managing the Recruitment, Development, and Retention of High-Quality Teachers
From Urban Institute Latest Reports: Teachers are systematically sorted across schools. Often, schools serving the lowest-achieving students staffed by the least-skilled teachers. While teachers' school preferences account for some of the sorting, school practices are also likely to be a...
School Principals and School Performance
From Urban Institute Latest Reports: This paper uses data from New York City to estimate how the characteristics of school principals relate to school performance, as measured by students' standardized exam scores and other outcomes. There is little evidence of...
Measure for Measure: The Relationship between Measures of Instructional Practice in Middle School English Language Arts and Teachers' Value-Added Scores
From Urban Institute Latest Reports: In this study, the authors ask what classroom practices, if any, differentiate teachers with high impact on student achievement in middle school English Language Arts from those with lower impact. The study further explores the...
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