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Boyd, Donald; Grossman, Pamela; Hammerness, Karen; Lankford, Hamilton; Loeb, Susanna; Ronfeldt, Matthew; Wyckoff, James – American Educational Research Journal, 2012
For well over a decade school districts across the United States have struggled to recruit and retain effective mathematics teachers. In response to the need for qualified math teachers and the difficulty of directly recruiting individuals who have already completed the math content required for qualification, some districts, including Baltimore,…
Descriptors: Evidence, Achievement Gains, Alternative Teacher Certification, Mathematics Teachers
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Boyd, Donald; Grossman, Pamela; Ing, Marsha; Lankford, Hamilton; Loeb, Susanna; O'Brien, Rachel; Wyckoff, James – Economics of Education Review, 2011
As schools and districts seek to recruit teachers, individuals in non-teaching professions are an appealing possible pool. These potential teachers come with work experience and may have expertise that would serve them well in the classroom. While there has been substantial rhetoric assailing the virtues of teachers with prior professional…
Descriptors: Teacher Recruitment, Labor Supply, Work Experience, Labor Utilization
Boyd, Donald; Grossman, Pam; Hammerness, Karen; Lankford, Hamilton; Loeb, Susanna; Ronfeldt, Mathew; Wyckoff, James – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2010
School districts often struggle to recruit and retain effective math teachers. Alternative-route certification programs aim to expand the pool of teachers available; however, many alternate routes have not been able to attract large numbers of teacher candidates with undergraduate degrees in math. In response, some districts, including Baltimore,…
Descriptors: Mathematics Teachers, Comparative Analysis, Teacher Recruitment, Teacher Effectiveness
Boyd, Donald; Lankford, Hamilton; Loeb, Susanna; Rockoff, Jonah; Wyckoff, James – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research, 2007
Studies have found substantial sorting of teachers across schools, with the schools with the highest proportions of poor, non-white, and low-scoring students having the least qualified teachers as measured by certification, exam performance, and inexperience (Lankford, Loeb and Wyckoff, 2002). Yet, there have been substantial changes in the…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Middle Schools, Teacher Effectiveness, Poverty
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Boyd, Donald; Goldhaber, Daniel; Lankford, Hamilton; Wyckoff, James – Future of Children, 2007
To improve the quality of the teacher workforce, some states have tightened teacher preparation and certification requirements while others have eased requirements and introduced "alternative" ways of being certified to attract more people to teaching. Donald Boyd, Daniel Goldhaber, Hamilton Lankford, and James Wyckoff evaluate these…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Academic Achievement, Certification, Teacher Education
Boyd, Donald; Lankford, Hamilton; Loeb, Susanna; Wyckoff, James – 2003
This paper explores a little-understood aspect of labor markets, their spatial geography. Using data from New York State, it finds teacher labor markets to be geographically very small. Teachers express preferences to teach close to where they grew up, and, controlling for proximity, they prefer areas with characteristics similar to their…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Labor Market, Proximity, School Location
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Boyd, Donald J.; Grossman, Pam; Lankford, Hamilton; Loeb, Susanna; Michelli, Nicholas M.; Wyckoff, Jim – Journal of Teacher Education, 2006
New York City represents a microcosm of the changes that are shaking the very foundations of teacher education in this country. In their efforts to find teachers for hard-to-staff schools by creating multiple pathways into teaching, districts from New York City to Los Angeles are in the midst of what amounts to a national experiment in how best to…
Descriptors: Alternative Teacher Certification, Preservice Teacher Education, Urban Education, Teacher Recruitment
Boyd, Donald; Grossman, Pamela; Lankford, Hamilton; Loeb, Susanna; Wyckoff, James – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2005
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 grades three through eight, this study assesses the effects of pathways into teaching in New York City on the teacher workforce and on student…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Urban Schools, Academic Achievement, Preservice Teacher Education
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Boyd, Donald; Lankford, Hamilton; Loeb, Susanna; Wyckoff, James – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2005
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 express preferences to teach close to where they grew up and, controlling for proximity, they prefer areas with characteristics similar to their hometown.…
Descriptors: Recruitment, Proximity, Place of Residence, Geographic Location