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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Teacher Mobility, School Segregation, and Pay-Based Policies to Level the Playing Field
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Clotfelter, Charles T.; Ladd, Helen F.; Vigdor, Jacob L. – Education Finance and Policy, 2011
Research has consistently shown that teacher quality is distributed very unevenly among schools, to the clear disadvantage of minority students and those from low-income families. Using North Carolina data on the length of time individual teachers remain in their schools, we examine the potential for using salary differentials to overcome this…
Descriptors: Faculty Mobility, Teacher Salaries, School Segregation, Teacher Qualifications
Are Teacher Absences Worth Worrying about in the United States?
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Clotfelter, Charles T.; Ladd, Helen F.; Vigdor, Jacob L. – Education Finance and Policy, 2009
Using detailed data from North Carolina, we examine the frequency, incidence, and consequences of teacher absences in public schools as well as the impact of a policy designed to reduce absences. The incidence of teacher absences is regressive: when schools are ranked by the fraction of students receiving free or reduced price lunches, teachers in…
Descriptors: Incidence, Teacher Attendance, Elementary Schools, Institutional Characteristics