Many large urban school districts are rethinking their personnel management strategies, often giving increased control … to schools in the hiring of teachers, reducing, for example, the importance of seniority. If school hiring authorities …. Prior research on teacher transfers uses career history data, identifying the school in which a teacher teaches in each year …

outcomes for students. In this paper, we use value-added methods to examine the relationship between a school's effectiveness … and the recruitment, assignment, development and retention of its teachers. We ask whether effective schools … differentially able to remove ineffective teachers. The results point to the importance of personnel, and perhaps, school personnel …

outcomes for students. In this article we use value-added methods to examine the relationship between a school's effectiveness … and the recruitment, assignment, development, and retention of its teachers. Our results reveal four key findings. First …-quality teachers. The results point to the importance of personnel and, perhaps, school personnel practices for improving student …

outcomes for students. In this paper, we use value-added methods to examine the relationship between a school's effectiveness … and the recruitment, assignment, development and retention of its teachers. We ask whether effective schools … differentially able to remove ineffective teachers. The results point to the importance of personnel, and perhaps, school personnel …

In the last decade, several Latin American governments have implemented new teacher recruitment policies based on …-based selection competitions for tenure at public schools. Has this new recruitment system served as an effective screening device … hierarchical linear regressions to evaluate the effect of Ecuador's new competitive recruitment policy. I then use propensity score …