Supplying Disadvantaged Schools with Effective Teachers: Experimental Evidence on Secondary Math Teachers from Teach For America

Do Disadvantaged Urban Schools Lose Their Best Teachers?

Recent research documents substantial variation in teacher quality as measured by value added to student achievement, much of which is not captured by characteristics typically used in the hiring and salary determination processes including post-graduate schooling and experience. Consequently an understanding of the impact of teacher transitions on school quality cannot focus simply on such obs...

How do teachers teach? Insights from teachers and students

Plenty — That ’ s Why Elementary Schools Need Math Teachers

ion. When asked, what is a fraction?, we say it is just something concrete, like a slice of pizza. And when this doesn’t work, we continue to skirt the question by offering more metaphors and more analogies: What about a fraction as “part of a whole”? As another way to write division problems? As an “expression” of the form m/n for whole numbers m and n (n > 0)? As another way to write ratios? ...

The challenges of staffing urban schools with effective teachers.

Brian Jacob examines challenges faced by urban districts in staffing their schools with effective teachers. He emphasizes that the problem is far from uniform. Teacher shortages are more severe in certain subjects and grades than others, and differ dramatically from one school to another. The Chicago public schools, for example, regularly receive roughly ten applicants for each teaching positio...

Invited Talk: If programming is like math, why don’t math teachers teach programming?

Researchers have developed a large variety of semantic models of object-oriented computations. These include object calculi as well as denotational, small-step operational, big-step operational, and reduction semantics. Some focus on pure object-oriented computation in small calculi; many others mingle the object-oriented and the procedural aspects of programming languages. In this paper, we pr...