PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Jones, Nathan
AU  - Winters, Marcus A.
TI  - Are Two Teachers Better Than One?
AID  - 10.3368/jhr.0420-10834R3
DP  - 2022 Feb 04
TA  - Journal of Human Resources
PG  - 0420-10834R3
4099  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/early/2022/01/31/jhr.0420-10834R3.short
4100  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/early/2022/01/31/jhr.0420-10834R3.full
AB  - Co-teaching, in which a general education teacher and special education teacher collaboratively provide instruction to students with and without disabilities in the same classroom, is widely endorsed as a strategy to give instructional support to students with disabilities within inclusive environments. We leverage longitudinal administrative data in Massachusetts to provide the first causal estimate for the effect of co-teaching across a large public school system. We find evidence that co-teaching leads to statistically significant test score improvements for both students with and without disabilities. However, the benefits for students with disabilities are much smaller than reported in prior studies.