ERIC Number: EJ1129503
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2017
Pages: 21
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0924-3453
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Federal Policy and the Teacher Labor Market: Exploring the Effects of NCB School Accountability on Teacher Turnover
Sun, Min; Saultz, Andrew; Ye, Yincheng
School Effectiveness and School Improvement, v28 n1 p102-122 2017
The media suggest that accountability pressure increases teacher stress and drives teachers away from teaching, resulting in teachers leaving disadvantaged schools that serve larger proportions of poor and minority students. However, no prior work has systematically examined the changes in the national trends of teacher turnover in response to No Child Left Behind (NCLB) school accountability. Drawing on nationally representative samples of schools and teachers from the Schools and Staffing Surveys and Teacher Follow-Up Surveys from 1993-2009, this study applied difference-in-differences approaches to examine the effects of NCLB on teacher turnover. We found a weak increase in the average rate of teachers transferring involuntarily to other schools following school-initiated separations, particularly in disadvantaged schools that served larger proportions of poor and minority students. We also observed that NCLB reduced the involuntary attrition rates of teachers. Importantly, the policy effect is indistinguishable from zero on voluntary transfer between schools or voluntary leaving the teaching profession.
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Educational Policy, Labor Market, Faculty Mobility, Accountability, Educational Change, Stress Variables, Elementary Secondary Education, National Surveys, Teacher Surveys, Followup Studies, Teacher Transfer, Disadvantaged Schools, Low Income Students, Minority Group Students, Teacher Characteristics, Comparative Analysis, Regression (Statistics), Robustness (Statistics)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Elementary Secondary Education
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Language: English
Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF)
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Identifiers - Laws, Policies, & Programs: No Child Left Behind Act 2001
Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: Schools and Staffing Survey (NCES)
Grant or Contract Numbers: DRL1506494