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Teacher career paths, teacher quality, and persistence in the classroom: Are public schools keeping their best?
Author(s) -
Goldhaber Dan,
Gross Betheny,
Player Daniel
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
journal of policy analysis and management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.898
H-Index - 84
eISSN - 1520-6688
pISSN - 0276-8739
DOI - 10.1002/pam.20549
Subject(s) - demographics , teacher quality , student achievement , persistence (discontinuity) , distribution (mathematics) , quality (philosophy) , variation (astronomy) , demographic economics , value (mathematics) , psychology , association (psychology) , mathematics education , academic achievement , sociology , demography , economics , business , statistics , mathematics , marketing , philosophy , psychotherapist , mathematical analysis , metric (unit) , engineering , epistemology , physics , geotechnical engineering , astrophysics
In this paper we examine the mobility of early‐career teachers of varying quality, measured using value‐added estimates of teacher performance. Unlike previous studies that have examined these issues, we focus on the variation in these effects across the effectiveness distribution. We find that, on average, more effective teachers tend to stay in their initial schools and in the teaching profession. But there also appears to be heterogeneity in mobility behavior across the performance distribution and evidence that teacher mobility is affected by student demographics and achievement levels. © 2010 by the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management.