Improving the quality of instruction is a central component to virtually all proposals to raise
school quality. Unfortunately, policy recommendations often ignore existing evidence about …

When considering schools, one must pay attention to teachers. After all, teachers are the
largest single budget item of schools, and many believe that they are the most important …

We use a randomized experiment and a structural model to test whether monitoring and
financial incentives can reduce teacher absence and increase learning in India. In treatment …

Many school districts experience difficulties attracting and retaining teachers, and the
impending retirement of a substantial fraction of public school teachers raises the specter of …

This paper provides information about the importance of non-pecuniary school
characteristics, such as race and poverty, on teacher turnover in Georgia. Simple descriptive …

This paper uses data from a randomized social experiment in Mexico to estimate and
validate a dynamic behavioral model of parental decisions about fertility and child schooling …

Co-Published by Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group and the Association of Teacher
Educators. The Handbook of Research on Teacher Education was initiated to ferment …

This is the second in a series of three reports about the research on teaching quality that the
Education Commission of the States (ECS) is producing through a grant from the US …

Americans have adopted a reform agenda for their schools that calls for excellence in
teaching and learning. School officials across the nation are hard at work targeting …

This paper examines both the timing of exits from the teaching profession and the reasons
for these exits. Approximately 67 percent of exiting female teachers leave the work force …