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The Teacher Labour Market, Teacher Turnover and Disadvantaged Schools: New Evidence for England
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Allen, Rebecca; Burgess, Simon; Mayo, Jennifer – Education Economics, 2018
We study the market for teachers in England, in particular teacher turnover. We show that there is a positive raw association between the level of school disadvantage and the turnover rate of its teachers. This association diminishes as we control for school, pupil and local teacher labour market characteristics, but is not eliminated. The…
Descriptors: Labor Market, Teaching (Occupation), Correlation, Disadvantaged Schools
Changing the Subject: How Are the EBacc and Attainment 8 Reforms Changing Results? Research Brief. Edition 13
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Allen, Rebecca; Thompson, Dave – Sutton Trust, 2016
Secondary schools have managed significant changes in the Key Stage 4 curriculum they offer in response to changes in performance tables and accountability measures from 2010 onwards. In this piece, the authors assess how these changes are starting to affect the educational choices and successes of pupils at the ages of 16 and 18. This is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Schools, Secondary School Curriculum, Performance
Measuring Foundation School Effectiveness Using English Administrative Data, Survey Data and a Regression Discontinuity Design
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Allen, Rebecca – Education Economics, 2013
Apparently sophisticated school performance measures have been used to claim that giving schools autonomy from local government control improves pupil exam performance. This paper explores the extent to which inferring causality between autonomy and pupil achievement is reasonable given that pupils are not randomly assigned to schools and schools…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Effectiveness, Academic Achievement, Institutional Autonomy
Why Do Faith Secondary Schools Have Advantaged Intakes? The Relative Importance of Neighbourhood Characteristics, Social Background and Religious Identification amongst Parents
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Allen, Rebecca; West, Anne – British Educational Research Journal, 2011
This paper explores reasons why secondary schools with a religious character have pupil intakes that are of a higher social background and ability than their secular counterparts. We show that this is especially true across all regions in England once the characteristics of the pupils living in the local neighbourhoods are taken into account. Data…
Descriptors: Advantaged, Secondary Schools, Income, Foreign Countries
Response to Grace's Reflections on Allen and West's Paper
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Allen, Rebecca; West, Anne – Oxford Review of Education, 2009
This article presents the authors' response to the Comment by Gerald Grace on their paper "Religious schools in London: school admissions, religious composition and selectivity". The Comment is a useful contribution to the academic and policy debates about religious schools and the role that empirical research can play. The authors are…
Descriptors: Secondary Schools, Urban Schools, Religious Organizations, Religious Discrimination
Religious Schools in London: School Admissions, Religious Composition and Selectivity
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Allen, Rebecca; West, Anne – Oxford Review of Education, 2009
This paper is concerned with segregation and school selectivity in secondary schools with a religious character in London, England. Analyses of the characteristics of pupils at religious and non-religious schools reveal that the former tend to cater predominantly for pupils from particular religions and/or denominations and ethnic groups, so…
Descriptors: Secondary Schools, Urban Schools, Religious Organizations, Selective Admission