Search Annenberg

Summarizes the work of eleven scholars on the problems with state school finance systems and how to transform them to support student learning.

Examines New York City's alternative certification programs with math immersion as a strategy for recruiting effective mathematics teachers.

Finds that teachers' perceptions of school administration have by far the greatest influence on teacher retention decisions in New York City.

Comments on Thomas Nechyba's use of computational models to estimate the impact of school finance policies on schooling and residential decisions.

Examines the impact of state testing and accountability policies on Texas high schools during the 1990s reform era.

Evaluates Michigan's Proposal A, the 1995 reform that shifted school funding from local property taxes to centralized state sales taxes.

Explores whether measures of instructional practice predict teachers' value-added to student test score gains.

Uses a survey of Milwaukee public school principals to examine whether school choice increases competitive pressure and how leaders respond to it.

Presents a matching scheme for consistently geocoding U.S. metropolitan areas across the 1970, 1980, and 1990 Censuses, which used differing definitions.

Asks whether school accountability policies are more or less effective at improving student outcomes in states with stronger local control over revenue and resources.

Examines the role of school leadership in teacher turnover, which falls hardest on schools serving Black and low-achieving students.

Compares seniority-based teacher layoffs with layoffs based on measures of effectiveness, as districts confront cuts after the financial crisis.

Assesses what econometric cost functions can and cannot tell us about the cost of an adequate education compared with professional judgment approaches.

Reviews the state role in K-12 teacher compensation and how salary levels and schedule structures shape who enters and stays in teaching.

Uses data from Brazil to assess how a program decentralizing school management changed school practices and whether it improved student outcomes.

Among the first studies to estimate how features of teacher preparation programs affect teachers' value-added to student test scores.

Investigates the multiple pathways into teaching in New York City as a microcosm of a national experiment in recruiting, preparing, and retaining teachers.

Describes the landscape of elementary teacher education programs in and around New York City, including who enters, who teaches, and what the core curriculum covers.

Uses data on every New York State elementary teacher from 1994 to 2002 to examine how fourth grade state testing affected teacher turnover and recruitment.

Summarizes states' policy approaches to teacher professional development and education across the stages of teachers' careers.