The education reform movement includes efforts to raise teacher quality through stricter certification and licensing … barrier to entry is likely to raise wages in the affected occupation, the theoretical effects of such requirements on teacher … quality are ambiguous. Teacher testing places a floor on whatever skills are measured by the required test, but testing is …

that teacher mobility is much more strongly related to characteristics of the students, particularly race and achievement …

International differences in teacher quality are commonly hypothesized to be a key determinant of the large … data, we construct country-level measures of teacher cognitive skills. We find substantial differences in teacher cognitive …-effects estimation exploiting within-country between-subject variation in teacher skills. Observed country variations in teacher …

International differences in teacher quality are commonly hypothesized to be a key determinant of the large …-level measures of teacher cognitive skills using unique assessment data for 31 countries. We find substantial differences in teacher …-effects estimation exploiting within-country between-subject variation in teacher skills. A series of robustness and placebo tests …

firms, but this may not hold in teacher labor markets characterized by salary rigidities, barriers to entry, and substantial … is the possibility that teacher turnover adversely affects the quality of instruction in schools serving predominantly …

Much of education policy focuses on improving teacher quality, but most policies lack strong research support. We use … student achievement gains to estimate teacher value-added, our measure of teacher quality. The analysis reveals substantial … variation in the quality of instruction, most of which occurs within rather than between schools. Although teacher quality …

The education reform movement includes efforts to raise teacher quality through stricter certification and licensing … provisions. Most US states now require public school teachers to pass a standardized test such as the National Teacher … requirements on teacher quality are ambiguous. Teacher testing places a floor on whatever skills are measured by the required test …

International differences in teacher quality are commonly hypothesized to be a key determinant of the large …-level measures of teacher cognitive skills using unique assessment data for 31 countries. We find substantial differences in teacher …-effects estimation exploiting within-country between-subject variation in teacher skills. A series of robustness and placebo tests …