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Download full textBackes, Ben; Hansen, Michael – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), 2023
This paper examines the impact of Teach For America (TFA) on following-year student test and non-test outcomes in Miami-Dade County Public Schools. This paper measures the extent to which exposure to TFA is followed by improved student outcomes in the future. In particular, this paper measures days missed due to absences or suspensions, course…
Descriptors: Teacher Recruitment, Alternative Teacher Certification, Beginning Teachers, Disadvantaged
Examining Spillover Effects from Teach for America Corps Members in Miami-Dade County Public Schools
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Direct linkBackes, Ben; Hansen, Michael; Xu, Zeyu; Brady, Victoria – Journal of Teacher Education, 2019
This article examines Teach For America's (TFA) placement strategy in Miami-Dade County Public Schools, in which large numbers of TFA corps members are placed as clusters into a targeted set of disadvantaged schools, to investigate whether the large-scale infusion of TFA corps members into these schools induced broader improvements across the…
Descriptors: Alternative Teacher Certification, Public School Teachers, Disadvantaged Schools, Teacher Placement
Hansen, Michael; Backes, Ben; Brady, Victoria – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2016
Retaining effective teachers is a key policy priority nationwide, particularly in districts that serve large numbers of disadvantaged students. We investigate whether a change in the Miami region's Teach for America (TFA) placement strategy was accompanied by changes in teacher attrition and mobility decisions. Our results suggest that the…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Faculty Mobility, Teacher Placement, Alternative Teacher Certification
Hansen, Michael; Backes, Ben; Brady, Victoria – Grantee Submission, 2016
Retaining effective teachers is a key policy priority nationwide, particularly in districts that serve large numbers of disadvantaged students. We investigate whether a change in the Miami region's placement strategy was accompanied by changes in teacher attrition and mobility decisions. Our results suggest that the increased concentration of TFA…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Faculty Mobility, Teacher Placement, Alternative Teacher Certification
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
Backes, 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
