Improving the quality of instruction is a central component to virtually all proposals to raise
school quality. Unfortunately, policy recommendations often ignore existing evidence about …

Eric Hanushek and Steven Rivkin examine how salary and working conditions affect the
quality of instruction in the classroom. The wages of teachers relative to those of other …

This study examines various factors influencing teacher attrition. Relying on nationally
representative, district-teacher matched data, we attempt to identify key determinants of …

This study explored whether teacher status (full-time vs. substitute) and its interaction with
teacher gender and length of work experience had an effect on the linear combination of …

This article exploits highly detailed data on teacher absences from a large urban school
district in the northern United States to shed light on the determinants and effects of teacher …

When considering schools, one must pay attention to teachers. After all, teachers are the
largest single budget item of schools, and many believe that they are the most important …

Neither of us have ever taught or worked in a K–12 school or school district. Therefore, one
might reasonably ask, why should anyone want to read our book on how best to reform …

It is commonly believed that teacher turnover is unusually high and that this is a sign of
failure in the education system. Previous studies have tested this idea by comparing teacher …

3 PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) is testing conducted by the
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) of international students …

What is known about recruiting and retaining teachers for hard-to-staff-schools runs counter
to many of the assumptions undergirding the teacher quality provisions of No Child Left …