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Soares, Katina M. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Due to budget shortfalls, teacher furloughs were imposed in 2009 in Hawaii Public Schools. The furloughs resulted in a 2009-2010 school year of 167 days as opposed to the regular school year of 180 days. The purpose of this causal-comparative study with a pretest-posttest design was to examine the found effects of those furloughs on academic…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Public Schools, Teachers, Comparative Analysis
Boyd, Donald J.; Lankford, Hamilton; Loeb, Susanna; Wyckoff, James H. – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research, 2010
This policy brief, a quick look at some aspects of the debate, illustrates the differences in New York City public schools that would result when layoffs are determined by seniority in comparison to a measure of teacher effectiveness. Due to data limitations and an interest in simplicity, this analysis employs the value added of teachers using the…
Descriptors: Class Size, Teacher Effectiveness, Job Layoff, Tenure