Who Would Stay, Who Would Be Dismissed? An Empirical Consideration of Value-Added Teacher Retention Policies

Educational Researcher

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 330-337

  Winters, Marcus A ^a   Cowen, Joshua M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

accountability; economics of education; educational policy; educational reform; regression analyses

Indexed keywords

EID: 84882976386     PISSN: 0013189X     EISSN: 1935102X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3102/0013189X13496145     Document Type: Article

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