This article reviews the literature on teacher value-added. Although value-added models
have been used to measure the contributions of numerous inputs to educational production …

Teacher preparation programs (TPPs) have received a great deal of policy and research
attention of late. And despite the commonsense notion that preparation for formal classroom …

Winner of the 2019 Society of Professors of Education Outstanding Book Award Winner of
2018 AESA Critic's Choice Award Teacher accountability has been a major strategy for …

Teacher preparation programs (TPPs) are where prospective teachers gain a foundation of
knowledge about pedagogy and subject matter, as well as early exposure to practical …

We use longitudinal data from Washington State to provide estimates of the extent to which
performance on the edTPA, a performance-based, subject-specific assessment of teacher …

With teacher quality repeatedly cited as the most important schooling factor influencing
student achievement, there has been increased interest in examining the efficacy of teacher …

There is growing concern among policy makers over the quality of the teacher workforce in
general, and the distribution of effective teachers across schools. The impact of teacher …

We analyze the placement and attrition patterns of teachers by preparation programs and
document large differences in the rate at which teachers exit both their schools and the …

We use data from six Washington State teacher education programs to investigate the
relationship between teacher candidates' student teaching experiences and their later …

Teacher preparation has emerged as an acutely politicized and publicized issue in US
education policy and practice, and there have been fierce debates about whether, how, by …