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Jing Liu; Susanna Loeb – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2019
Teachers' impact on student long-run success is only partially explained by their contributions to students' short-run academic performance. For this study, we explore a second dimension of teacher effectiveness by creating measures of teachers' contributions to student class-attendance. We find systematic variation in teacher effectiveness at…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Attendance, Teacher Influence, Teacher Effectiveness
Education Trust-West, 2012
Effective teachers have an enormous impact on the lives of their students. Great teachers can help students who are behind academically catch up to grade-level expectations. By accelerating student performance, they can help close the opportunity and achievement gaps that cut short the college and career dreams of so many low-income students and…
Descriptors: School Districts, Teacher Effectiveness, Acceleration (Education), Achievement Gap