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Winters, Marcus A. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2023
Prior research substantially overstates the cost of retention under test-based promotion policies to both taxpayers and students who delay labor market entry because it omits two important factors. First, there is a delay between the intervention and the taxpayer's expenditure. Second, on average, the treatment leads to less than a full year of…
Descriptors: High Stakes Tests, Grade Repetition, Grade 3, Elementary School Students
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Floden, Robert, Ed.; Stephens, Amy, Ed.; Scherer, Layne, Ed. – National Academies Press, 2020
Teachers play a critical role in the success of their students, both academically and in regard to long term outcomes such as higher education participation and economic attainment. Expectations for teachers are increasing due to changing learning standards and a rapidly diversifying student population. At the same time, there are perceptions that…
Descriptors: Teacher Role, Educational Change, Standards, Teacher Education Programs
Goff, Peter; Xie, Xin; Yang, Minseok; Batt, Lena; Gandy-Fastovich, Lydia; Rodriguez-Escutia, Yasmin; Yang, Hyunwoo; You, Eunji – Wisconsin Center for Education Research, 2019
This study develops, validates, and applies a typology of teachers using labor market data. We construct our typology by applying a correlated topic model to 17,000 personal statements teachers submitted as part of their applications to open positions in Wisconsin public schools. We identify seven types of teachers active on the labor market:…
Descriptors: Classification, Educational Philosophy, Correlation, Labor Market
Schmitt, Lisa; Hutchins, Shaun – Online Submission, 2015
This technical supplement provides details for the full report (published separately) which includes two studies that describe the local context for teacher employment decisions. The first examines the local labor market, and the second examines employment for teachers who left Austin Independent School District (AISD). A separate executive…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, School Districts, Kindergarten, Elementary Secondary Education
Kim, Dongwoo; Koedel, Cory; Ni, Shawn; Podgursky, Michael – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), 2016
State-specific licensing policies and pension plans create mobility costs for educators who cross state lines. We empirically test whether these costs affect production in schools--a hypothesis that follows directly from economic theory on labor frictions--using geo-coded data from the lower-48 states. We find that achievement is lower in…
Descriptors: Labor Market, Public Schools, Faculty Mobility, Geographic Location
Schmitt, Lisa; Hutchins, Shaun – Online Submission, 2015
This executive summary highlights results from the full report (published separately) which includes two studies that describe the local context for teacher employment decisions. The first examines the local labor market, and the second examines employment for teachers who left Austin Independent School District (AISD). A separate technical report…
Descriptors: Teacher Salaries, School Districts, Kindergarten, Elementary Secondary Education
Schmitt, Lisa; Hutchins, Shaun – Online Submission, 2015
This report includes two studies that describe the local context for teacher employment decisions. The first examines the local labor market, and the second examines employment for teachers who left Austin Independent School District (AISD). A separate executive summary and a technical report also were published. [For the executive summary, see…
Descriptors: School Districts, Teacher Effectiveness, Elementary Secondary Education, Kindergarten
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Ballaeva, E. A. – Russian Education and Society, 2014
An insufficient number of affordable places in Russia's preschool system is affecting the educational development of many young children and reducing the number of mothers who could be working in the economy.
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Nontraditional Education, Foreign Countries, Access to Education
Dieterle, Steven – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Prior research has established the potential for achievement gains from attending smaller classes. However, large statewide class-size reduction (CSR) policies have not been found to consistently realize such gains. A leading explanation for the disappointing performance of CSR policies is that schools are forced to hire additional teachers of…
Descriptors: Economics, Class Size, Small Classes, Teacher Effectiveness
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Ireland, Timothy – Convergence, 2007
Brazilian inequality is the result of multiple complex determinations but the heterogeneity with which quality education is distributed among the population remains at its core. When we consider the Brazilian labour market we see that the heterogeneity in the levels of schooling of the workforce is the principle determinant for wage inequality…
Descriptors: Labor Market, Lifelong Learning, Educational Quality, Foreign Countries