How does school accountability affect teachers?: Evidence from New York City

R Dizon-Ross - Journal of Human Resources, 2020 - jhr.uwpress.org
Does holding schools accountable for student performance cause good teachers to leave
low-performing schools? Using data from New York City, which assigns accountability …

Do accountability policies push teachers out?

R Ingersoll, L Merrill, H May - Educational Leadership, 2016 - repository.upenn.edu
The impact of accountability on US schools, for good or ill, is a subject of debate and
research. The authors recently studied an aspect of accountability that had previously …

School-based accountability and the distribution of teacher quality across grades in elementary school

SC Fuller, HF Ladd - Education Finance and Policy, 2013 - direct.mit.edu
Abstract We use North Carolina data to explore whether the quality of teachers in the lower
elementary grades (K–2) falls short of teacher quality in the upper grades (3–5) and to …

Do school accountability systems make it more difficult for low‐performing schools to attract and retain high‐quality teachers?

CT Clotfelter, HF Ladd, JL Vigdor… - Journal of Policy …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Administrative data from North Carolina are used to explore the extent to which that
state's relatively sophisticated school‐based accountability system has exacerbated the …

Accountability and control in American schools

RM Ingersoll, GJ Collins - Teachers Matter–But How?, 2019 - taylorfrancis.com
One of the most controversial and significant of contemporary education reforms has been
the teacher accountability movement. From this perspective, low-quality teachers and …

[PDF][PDF] Teacher performance-based accountability: Why, what and how

J Schacter - Retrieved March, 2001 - Citeseer
Recent research has identified teacher quality as the most important variable in increasing
student achievement. The effect of the teacher on student achievement has been shown to …

Do accountability policy sanctions influence teacher motivation? Lessons from Chicago's low-performing schools

KS Finnigan, B Gross - American Educational Research …, 2007 - journals.sagepub.com
The federal No Child Left Behind Act and previous performance-based accountability
policies are based on a theoretical assumption that sanctions will motivate school staff to …

School accountability

D Figlio, S Loeb - Handbook of the Economics of Education, 2011 - Elsevier
School accountability—the process of evaluating school performance on the basis of student
performance measures—is increasingly prevalent around the world. In the United States …

Public school accountability, workplace culture, and teacher morale

K Erichsen, J Reynolds - Social Science Research, 2020 - Elsevier
Educational scholars claim that teacher morale has suffered from accountability pressures
and constrained professionalism, but exactly what is most diminished by these pressures …

Accountability: Threat or Target?.

RT Taylor, RD Williams - School Administrator, 2001 - ERIC
Fully 27 states grade or rank schools to force improved student performance; some states
are instituting teacher-performance portfolios. Accountability is becoming a threat rather than …