Chapter 26

Teacher labor markets: An overview

Jessalynn James 1 , and James Wyckoff 2       1 Annenberg Institute, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States      2 Curry School of Education, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States

Abstract

In recent decades, research has revealed the importance of teachers for student outcomes, as well as the extent to which access to high-quality teachers is inequitably distributed across students from different backgrounds. This chapter describes the methodological challenges confronting the study of teacher labor markets and the institutional features of these markets that influence that quality of teaching in public schools. We then describe three policy levers that have ...

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