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Prasiddha Shakya – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2024
This paper examines the impact of increasing teacher salaries on student outcomes by exploiting variation from the "50K The First Day" campaign that established a $50K salary floor for new teachers across New Jersey school districts. Using school-level data from 2003 to 2019, we employ a staggered difference-in-differences (DiD) approach…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Public School Teachers, Teacher Salaries, Salary Wage Differentials
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Johnson, Tara Star; Smagorinsky, Peter; Thompson, Leigh; Fry, Pamela G. – Research in the Teaching of English, 2003
The five-paragraph theme, while widely used by writing instructors, has often been criticized for its tendency to focus on a rigid formula rather than a writer's ideas. This study investigates the decision of an early-career teacher, Leigh, to teach her eighth-grade students the five-paragraph model in the context of a state-mandated writing…
Descriptors: Writing Tests, Teaching Methods, Test Preparation, Grade 8
Goos, Merrilyn, Ed.; Brown, Ray, Ed.; Makar, Katie, Ed. – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2008
This document presents the proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia (MERGA). The theme of this conference is "Navigating Currents and Charting Directions." The theme reminds us that, although we are constantly pushed to account for the quality and impact of our research, we…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Constructivism (Learning), Educational Development, Practicums