Introducing the issue

Future of Children

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 3-14

  Loeb, Susanna ^a   Rouse, Cecilia ^b   Shorris, Anthony ^b,c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c The Port Authority of New York & New Jersey   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CERTIFICATION; COST; DECISION MAKING; EDITORIAL; EDUCATION; HUMAN; MARKET; PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT; QUALITY CONTROL; RURAL AREA; SCHOOL; STUDENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEACHER; TEACHING; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA; WELLBEING; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 34248394738     PISSN: 10548289     EISSN: 15501558     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/foc.2007.0008     Document Type: Editorial

References (9)

1. Cecilia Elena Rouse, "Inadequate Education: Consequences for the Labor Market," mimeo (Princeton University, September 2005).
2. Lisa Barrow and Cecilia Elena Rouse, "U.S. Elementary and Secondary Schools: Equalizing Opportunity or Replicating the Status Quo?" The Future of Children 16 (2006): 99-117.
3. Eric A. Hanushek, Steven G. Rivkin, and John J. Kain, "Teachers, Schools and Academic Achievement," Econometrica 73, no. 2 (2005): 417-58. Here, a "good teacher" is defined as one with an average value added that is one standard deviation greater than the average. This does not include knowledge depreciation.
4. Hamilton Lankford, Susanna Loeb, and James Wyckoff, "Teacher Sorting and the Plight of Urban Schools: A Descriptive Analysis," Education Evaluation and Policy Analysis 24, no. 1 (2002): 37-62.
5. This estimate comes from multiplying the average teacher salary from 2003-04 ($46,752 at www.nea.org/edstats/images/05rankings.pdf) by the number of teachers given above.
6. Thomas D. Snyder, Alexandra G. Tan, and Charlene M. Hoffman, Digest of Education Statistics 2005 (U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, July 2006), table 28, downloaded from http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d05/tables/dt05_028.asp?referer=list (October 26, 2006).
7. Susanna Loeb and Luke Miller, "State Teacher Policies: What Are They, What Are Their Effects, and What Are Their Implications for School Finance," Getting Down to Facts Report, unpublished (Stanford University, December 2006).
8. G. A. Strizek and others, Characteristics of Schools, Districts, Teachers, Principals, and School Libraries in the United States: 2003-04 Schools and Staffing Survey (U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, 2006), http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2006/2006313.pdf.
9. Bringing in effective administrators is likely to be even more helpful, but unfortunately this is a substantially more difficult undertaking, since administrator labor markets are no less complicated than teacher labor markets.