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Direct linkBackes, Ben; Hansen, Michael – Education Finance and Policy, 2018
Recent evidence on teacher productivity suggests that teachers meaningfully influence non-test academic student outcomes that are commonly overlooked by narrowly focusing on test scores. Despite a large number of studies investigating the Teach For America (TFA) effect on math and English achievement, little is known about non-tested academic…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Public School Teachers, Outcomes of Education, Attendance Patterns
Download full textBackes, Benjamin; Hansen, Michael – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), 2015
Recent evidence on teacher productivity suggests teachers meaningfully influence noncognitive student outcomes that are commonly overlooked by narrowly focusing on student test scores. These effects may show similar levels of variation across the teacher workforce and are not significantly correlated with value-added test score gains. Despite a…
Descriptors: Alternative Teacher Certification, Program Effectiveness, Teacher Effectiveness, Outcomes of Education
Hansen, Michael; Backes, Ben; Brady, Victoria – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), 2015
We examine the extent to which clustering large numbers of Teach For America (TFA) corps members in a limited number of low-performing schools was accompanied by changes in teacher mobility decisions. Using longitudinal data from Miami-Dade spanning six school years, augmented with survey responses from TFA's own Alumni Survey for cohorts placed…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Faculty Mobility, Teacher Persistence, Public School Teachers
Hansen, Michael; Backes, Benjamin; Brady, Victoria; Xu, Zeyu – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), 2015
A sizeable body of evidence has documented the effectiveness of Teach For America (TFA) corps members at raising the mathematics test scores of their students, though little is known about the program's impact at the school level. TFA's recent placement strategy in the Miami-Dade County Public Schools, in which large numbers of TFA corps members…
Descriptors: Alternative Teacher Certification, Public Schools, Teacher Effectiveness, Public School Teachers
