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Matthew A. Kraft; Eric J. Brunner; Shaun M. Dougherty; David J. Schwegman – Grantee Submission, 2020
In recent years, states have sought to increase accountability for public school teachers by implementing a package of reforms centered on high-stakes evaluation systems. We examine the effect of these reforms on the supply and quality of new teachers. Leveraging variation across states and time, we find that accountability reforms reduced the…
Descriptors: Accountability, Teacher Supply and Demand, Job Satisfaction, Job Security
Matthew A. Kraft; Eric J. Brunner; Shaun M. Dougherty; David J. Schwegman – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2019
In recent years, states have sought to increase accountability for public school teachers by implementing a package of reforms centered on high-stakes evaluation systems. We examine the effect of these reforms on the supply and quality of new teachers. Leveraging variation across states and time, we find that accountability reforms reduced the…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, National Surveys, Accountability, Teacher Supply and Demand
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Goldhaber, Dan; Walch, Joe – Education Next, 2014
The quality of the teacher workforce in the United States is of considerable concern to education stakeholders and policymakers. Numerous studies show that student academic success depends in no small part on access to high-quality teachers. Many pundits point to the fact that in the United States, teachers tend not to be drawn from the top of the…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Academic Achievement, Accountability, Trend Analysis