Many personal and policy decisions turn on perceptions of school effectiveness, defined
here as the causal effect of attendance at a particular school or set of schools on student test …

Evaluation and training are important features of the employment relationship between
teachers and the schools they work for. The first feature, evaluation, involves performance …

We study the equity and efficiency consequences of the allocation of teachers to schools.
Within a district, wages are uniform across potential assignments. Because teachers tend to …

We study the effects of counterfactual teacher-to-classroom assignments on average student
achievement in US elementary and middle schools. We use the Measures of Effective …

We estimate the effect of an increased autonomy policy for higher-performing students on
short-and longer-term school outcomes. We exploit an institutional setting with high demand …

Abstract We present the Teacher Talk Tool, which automatically analyzes classroom audio
and provides formative feedback on key aspects of teachers' classroom discourse (eg, use …

The teacher labor market is a two-sided matching market where the effects of policies
depend on the actions of both sides. We specify a matching model of teachers and schools …

Many instructional observation systems are designed to provide rough, qualitative, highly-
evaluative assessments on numerous core dimensions of teaching. Such systems achieve …

In this study, we report results from a novel coding of the Measures of Effective Teaching
(MET) Study data that offers evidence on a set of teacher discourse measures in the domain …

Although the literature on assignment mechanisms emphasizes the importance of efficiency
based on agents' preferences, policymakers may want to achieve different goals. For …