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Making a Difference? The Effects of Teach For America in High School
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Xu, Zeyu; Hannaway, Jane; Taylor, Colin – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2011
Teach For America (TFA) selects and places graduates from the most competitive colleges as teachers in the lowest-performing schools in the country. This paper is the first study that examines TFA effects in high school. We use rich longitudinal data from North Carolina and estimate TFA effects through cross-subject student and school fixed…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Teacher Placement, Disadvantaged Schools, Teacher Effectiveness