Growing concerns over the achievement of U.S. students have led to proposals to reward good teachers and penalize (or … fire) bad ones. The leading method for assessing teacher quality is "value added" modeling (VAM), which decomposes students … strong assumptions about the nature of the educational production function and the assignment of students to classrooms. In …

It is widely documented that U.S. students score below their OECD counterparts on international achievement tests, but …

productivity parameter, class size is a component of school quality, households are heterogeneous in income and hence willingness … between class size and household income in equilibrium, which will tend to bias cross-sectional estimates of the effect of … approach in settings in which parents have substantial school choice and schools are free to set prices and influence their …

the numbers of students who score at or above specified proficiency levels in various subjects. Accountability systems … based on these metrics often provide incentives for teachers and principals to target children near current proficiency … levels for extra attention, but these same systems provide weak incentives to devote extra attention to students who are …

schools, students, and their families with our own survey conducted in 2000 regarding the use of teacher incentives. This …

Uniform use in public schools is rising, but we know little about how they affect students. Using a unique dataset from …