Effective Schools : Teacher Hiring, Assignment, Development, and Retention

The literature on effective schools emphasizes the importance of a quality teaching force in improving educational outcomes for students. In this article we use value-added methods to examine the relationship between a school's effectiveness and the recruitment, assignment, development, and ret...

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Main Authors:	Loeb, Susanna, Kalogrides, Demetra, Beteille, Tara
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	en_US
Published:	MIT Press 2014
Subjects:	effective schools improving educational outcomes teacher value added
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16601

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spelling	okr-10986-166012021-04-23T14:03:31Z Effective Schools : Teacher Hiring, Assignment, Development, and Retention Loeb, Susanna Kalogrides, Demetra Beteille, Tara effective schools improving educational outcomes teacher value added The literature on effective schools emphasizes the importance of a quality teaching force in improving educational outcomes for students. In this article we use value-added methods to examine the relationship between a school's effectiveness and the recruitment, assignment, development, and retention of its teachers. Our results reveal four key findings. First, we find that more effective schools are able to attract and hire more effective teachers from other schools when vacancies arise. Second, more effective schools assign novice teachers to students in a more equitable fashion. Third, teachers who work in schools that were more effective at raising achievement in a prior period improve more rapidly in a subsequent period than do those in less effective schools. Finally, we find that more effective schools are better able to retain higher-quality teachers. The results point to the importance of personnel and, perhaps, school personnel practices for improving student outcomes. 2014-01-23T17:48:31Z 2014-01-23T17:48:31Z 2012-07 Journal Article Education Finance and Policy 1557-3060 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16601 en_US http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo Association for Education Finance and Policy MIT Press Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Journal Article
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description	The literature on effective schools emphasizes the importance of a quality teaching force in improving educational outcomes for students. In this article we use value-added methods to examine the relationship between a school's effectiveness and the recruitment, assignment, development, and retention of its teachers. Our results reveal four key findings. First, we find that more effective schools are able to attract and hire more effective teachers from other schools when vacancies arise. Second, more effective schools assign novice teachers to students in a more equitable fashion. Third, teachers who work in schools that were more effective at raising achievement in a prior period improve more rapidly in a subsequent period than do those in less effective schools. Finally, we find that more effective schools are better able to retain higher-quality teachers. The results point to the importance of personnel and, perhaps, school personnel practices for improving student outcomes.
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title	Effective Schools : Teacher Hiring, Assignment, Development, and Retention
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Effective Schools : Teacher Hiring, Assignment, Development, and Retention

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