Teacher licensure status and student achievement: Lessons from private schools

Economics of Education Review

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 504-516

  Sharkey, Nancy S ^a   Goldhaber, Dan ^b  

^a HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Demand for schooling; Educational economics

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE; EDUCATION; STUDENT; TEACHER TRAINING;

EID: 48049109390     PISSN: 02727757     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econedurev.2007.09.009     Document Type: Article

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