Many personal and policy decisions turn on perceptions of school effectiveness, defined
here as the causal effect of attendance at a particular school or set of schools on student test …

With more than 3 million participants per year, the Advanced Placement (AP) program is one
of the most popular programs in the United States for exposing high-achieving high school …

In this essential new book, best-selling author and researcher Robert J. Marzano and
teacher-effectiveness expert Michael D. Toth lay out a framework for the" next generation" of …

Increasingly, states and districts are combining student growth measures with rigorous,
rubric-aligned teacher observations in constructing teacher evaluation measures. Although …

In recent years, states have sought to increase accountability for public school teachers by
implementing a package of reforms centered on high-stakes evaluation systems. We …

Recent years have seen the convergence of two major policy streams in US K–12
education: standards/accountability and teacher quality reforms. Work in these areas has led …

This study connects descriptions of effective teaching with descriptions of teacher
development to advance an initial understanding of how effective teaching may develop …

Teacher contracts that condition pay and retention on demonstrated performance can
improve selection into and out of teaching. I study alternative contracts in a simulated …

The past decade has seen a tremendous amount of research on the use of value-added
modeling to assess individual teachers, and a significant number of states and districts are …

Limited research is available concerning teacher retention and teacher attrition in Arctic
Alaska.┬ á This paper reports survey research findings, which identify factors related to …