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ERIC Number: ED643406
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2023-Feb
Pages: 37
Abstractor: As Provided
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How Did It Get This Way? Disentangling the Sources of Teacher Quality Gaps through Agent-Based Modeling. Working Paper No. 259-0223
Dan Goldhaber; Matt Kasman; Vanessa Quince; Roddy Theobald; Malcolm Wolff
National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER)
We use publicly available, longitudinal data from Washington state to study the extent to which three interrelated processes--teacher attrition from the state teaching workforce, teacher mobility between teaching positions, and teacher hiring for open positions--contribute to "teacher quality gaps" (TQGs) between students of color and other students in K-12 public schools. Specifically, we develop and implement an agent-based model simulation of decisions about attrition, mobility, and hiring to assess the extent to which each process contributes to observed TQGs. We find that eliminating inequities in teacher mobility and hiring across different schools would close TQGs within 5 years, while just eliminating inequities in teacher hiring would close gaps within 10 years. On the other hand, eliminating inequities in teacher attrition without addressing mobility and hiring does little to close gaps.
National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research. American Institutes for Research, 1000 Thomas Jefferson Street NW, Washington, DC 20007. Tel: 202-403-5796; Fax: 202-403-6783; e-mail: info@caldercenter.org; Web site: https://caldercenter.org
Publication Type: Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Secondary Education
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Sponsor: William T. Grant Foundation
Authoring Institution: National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER) at American Institutes for Research (AIR)
Identifiers - Location: Washington
Grant or Contract Numbers: 184925