Recruiting the Very Best Future K-12 Teachers Using Free College: Experimental Evidence on Why It Fails

The talk presented experimental evidence on using free college to recruit future K-12 teachers and on why the approach fell short. Xiaoyang Ye, Postdoctoral Researcher, Annenberg Institute at Brown University, presented “Recruiting the Very Best Future K-12 Teachers Using Free College: Experimental Evidence on Why It Fails” at the Institute on December 8, 2020 in a virtual session. The talk was part of Annenberg’s Education Policy Workshop Series, an hour-long “works in progress” seminar centered on empirical research related to education and education policy. Speakers come from a variety of disciplinary traditions, and the series welcomes faculty, postdocs, graduate students, and research staff from across the university who are interested in empirical research in education.