Teacher Attrition and Mobility During the Teach for America Clustering Strategy in Miami-Dade County Public Schools

2016 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 495-516 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Hansen ◽  
Ben Backes ◽  
Victoria Brady
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Teacher Attrition ◽  
Teach For America ◽  
Dade County

scholarly journals Examining Spillover Effects From Teach For America Corps Members in Miami-Dade County Public Schools

2018 ◽  
Vol 70 (5) ◽  
pp. 453-471 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ben Backes ◽  
Michael Hansen ◽  
Zeyu Xu ◽  
Victoria Brady
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Mathematics Achievement ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Spillover Effects ◽  
Teach For America ◽  
Dade County ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
Cluster Strategy ◽  
Student Test ◽  
Over Time

This article examines Teach For America’s (TFA) placement strategy in Miami-Dade County Public Schools, in which large numbers of TFA corps members are placed as clusters into a targeted set of disadvantaged schools, to investigate whether the large-scale infusion of TFA corps members into these schools induced broader improvements across the school. Using 6 years of administrative data from the district, we exploit variation in TFA density over time within schools to measure the extent to which increases in density were associated with improvements in student test scores. We find that many of the schools chosen to participate in the cluster strategy experienced large subsequent gains in mathematics achievement. These gains were driven in part by the direct effect of having larger numbers of classrooms staffed by effective TFA teachers. However, we do not find any evidence that the clustering strategy led to any spillovers on schoolwide performance.

The Impact of Teach for America on Non-Test Academic Outcomes

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 168-193 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ben Backes ◽  
Michael Hansen
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Academic Outcomes ◽  
Student Outcomes ◽  
Teach For America ◽  
Dade County ◽  
Unexcused Absences ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Teacher Productivity ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Elementary And Middle School

Recent evidence on teacher productivity suggests that teachers meaningfully influence non-test academic student outcomes that are commonly overlooked by narrowly focusing on test scores. Despite a large number of studies investigating the Teach For America (TFA) effect on math and English achievement, little is known about non-tested academic outcomes. Using administrative data from Miami-Dade County Public Schools, we investigate the relationship between being in a TFA classroom and five non-test student outcomes commonly found in administrative datasets: days absent, days suspended, GPA, classes failed, and grade repetition. We validate our use of non-test student academic outcomes to assess differences in teacher productivity using the quasi-experimental teacher switching methods of Chetty, Friedman, and Rockoff ( 2014 ) and fail to reject the null hypothesis of unbiasedness in most cases in elementary and middle school, although in some cases standard errors are large. We find suggestive evidence that students taught by TFA teachers in elementary and middle schools were less likely to miss school due to unexcused absences and suspensions compared with students taught by non-TFA teachers in the same school, although point estimates are very small. Other outcomes were found to be forecast-unbiased but showed no evidence of a TFA effect.

Tapping the Principal Pipeline

2011 ◽  
Vol 47 (5) ◽  
pp. 695-727 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeannie Myung ◽  
Susanna Loeb ◽  
Eileen Horng
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Fixed Effects ◽  
School Leaders ◽  
Leadership Competencies ◽  
Management Plan ◽  
School Level ◽  
Dade County ◽  
Leadership Potential ◽  
Principal Candidates ◽  
School Year

Purpose: In light of the difficulty many districts face finding quality principal candidates, this article explores an informal recruitment mechanism of teachers to become principals, which the authors call tapping. The authors assess the extent to which current teachers are being approached by school leaders to consider leadership and whether this tapping prompts these teachers to consider pursuing leadership positions. Research Design: This study uses survey and administrative data on teachers and principals from the Miami-Dade County Public Schools from the 2007–2008 school year. The authors describe the extent to which principals tap teachers to become school leaders. They use multiple regression with and without school fixed effects to model which teachers are most likely to be tapped and which principals are most likely to tap teachers. They also estimate the extent to which tapping is effective at motivating teachers to become school leaders. Findings: A vast majority of principals report having been tapped by their own principal when they were teachers. The authors find that principals tend to tap teachers who feel better equipped to take on the principalship and who have more school-level leadership experience, but they also disproportionately tap teachers who are male and share their ethnicity. Conclusions: The findings provide evidence that principals are capable of effectively identifying and encouraging teachers with strong leadership potential to enter the principal pipeline, although additional training and a succession management plan may help ensure that teachers are selected based on clear leadership competencies.

Use of Inhalants among MIAMI's Public School Students, 1992

1996 ◽  
Vol 79 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1155-1161 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara M. Yarnold
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Public School ◽  
Family Member ◽  
Probit Analysis ◽  
Alcohol Problem ◽  
Dade County ◽  
School Students ◽  
Public School Students ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Ready Access

This analysis examined inhalant use by 482 adolescents in Dade County, Florida public schools in 1992. Probit analysis indicated factors associated with increased probability of use included peers' use of inhalants, earlier grades (Grades 7 and 8), ready access, and a family member with a drug or alcohol problem. Adolescents were slightly more likely to use inhalants if they knew of the associated risks.

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