Employee turnover is a key area for public administration research, but one about which
there is much still to be learned. Insights from an extensive body of research on employee …

Studies link principal effectiveness to lower average rates of teacher turnover. However,
principals need not target retention efforts equally to all teachers. Instead, strong principals …

Teacher evaluation systems that pair measures of teacher observation with measures of
student achievement or growth have become widespread. However, little attention has …

Exploiting variation from principal and teacher transitions over long administrative data
panels from Missouri and Tennessee, we estimate the effects of principal race on the racial …

Teacher effectiveness varies substantially, yet principals' evaluations of teachers often fail to
differentiate performance among teachers. We offer new evidence on principals' subjective …

We studied how six high-performing, high-poverty schools in one large Massachusetts city
implemented the state's new teacher evaluation policy. The sample includes traditional …

Purpose: New teacher effectiveness measures have the potential to influence how principals
hire teachers as they provide new and richer information about candidates to a traditionally …

Exploiting variation from principal and teacher transitions over long administrative data
panels in Missouri and Tennessee, we estimate the effects of principal race on the hiring …

School districts increasingly push school leaders to utilize multiple measures of teacher
effectiveness, such as observation ratings or value-added scores, in making talent …

In this review, I examined the last two decades of research on data use in education to
outline the ways in which principals used data to inform their own leadership practices. I …