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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
