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Direct linkSteele, Jennifer L.; Murnane, Richard J.; Willett, John B. – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2009
This study capitalizes on a natural experiment that occurred in California between 2000 and 2002. In those years, the state offered a competitively allocated $20,000 incentive called the Governor's Teaching Fellowship (GTF) aimed at attracting academically talented, novice teachers to low-performing schools and retaining them in those schools for…
Descriptors: Financial Support, Incentives, Beginning Teachers, Teacher Recruitment
Murnane, Richard J. – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2008
For a variety of reasons described in the paper, improving the performance of urban school districts is more difficult today than it was several decades ago. Yet economic and social changes make performance improvement especially important today. Two quite different bodies of research provide ideas for improving the performance of urban school…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, School Districts, Urban Youth, Educational Improvement
