Spillover Effects of Recruiting Teachers for School Turnaround: Evidence From Tennessee

Adam Kho; Gary T. Henry; Lam D. Pham; Ron Zimmer

doi:10.3102/01623737221111807

Spillover Effects of Recruiting Teachers for School Turnaround: Evidence From Tennessee

Adam Kho
, Gary T. Henry
, Lam D. Pham
, Ron Zimmer

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Abstract

Many districts and states have implemented incentives to recruit teachers to low-performing schools, and previous research has found evidence that these incentives are effective at attracting teachers. However, effects on the schools and students these teachers leave behind have not been examined. This study focuses on the spillover effects of recruiting effective teachers to Tennessee’s Innovation Zone (iZone) schools. We find the short-term effects of losing these teachers range from −0.04 to −0.12 SDs in student test score gains, with larger negative effects when more effective teachers leave. However, combining both these negative effects in schools teachers leave and the positive effects in iZone schools yields overall net positive effects.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	268-284
Number of pages	17
Journal	Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis
Volume	45
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3102/01623737221111807
State	Published - Jun 2023

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Funding

Funding for this research was provided by John and Laura Arnold Foundation and the Walton Family Foundation. We wish to thank the Achievement School District and Tennessee Department of Education for their feedback and assistance. Any opinions or errors are solely attributable to us, however. This study was approved by the Vanderbilt Institutional Review Board. Funding for this research was provided by John and Laura Arnold Foundation and the Walton Family Foundation.

Funders
Achievement School District and Tennessee Department of Education
Laura and John Arnold Foundation
Walton Family Foundation

Keywords

achievement
at-risk students
econometric analysis
educational policy
educational reform
equity
longitudinal studies
policy analysis
quasi-experimental analysis
regression analyses
school/teacher effectiveness
secondary data analysis

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Education

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