CEPA performs research on
teacher labor markets about the factors that lead teachers to join and leave districts as well as the impacts of policies intended to encourage the retention of quality teachers.
Not exact matches
The fragmented
teacher labor market has implications for how we think
about improving
teacher preparation, not to mention how school districts go
about hiring new
teachers.
But one thing that surprised me
about the analysis was the extent of the fragmentation in the
teacher labor market in Illinois.
This argument begs the question
about how large correlations should be to be considered as indicators of adult outcomes, and it also discounts recent research showing that test scores improvements related to effective
teachers were correlated with gains in adult
labor -
market outcomes.
Nonetheless, these conjectures are categorized into sections
about how VAMs might help us to (1) change the supply of people who opt into pursuing a teaching career and who are selected into the
labor market, (2) change the effectiveness of those currently teaching, and (3) change which
teachers elect to, or are permitted to, stay in teaching.
This paper begins by providing an overview of what we know
about teacher labor markets in the United States.