scholarly journals When the Walls Come Down: Evidence on Charter Schools’ Ability to Keep Their Best Teachers Without Unions and Certification Rules

2021 ◽  
pp. 016237372110472
Author(s):  
Nathan Barrett ◽  
Deven Carlson ◽  
Douglas N. Harris ◽  
Jane Arnold Lincove
Keyword(s):  
School Districts ◽  
Charter Schools ◽  
School Reform ◽  
Labor Markets ◽  
New Orleans ◽  
Average Quality ◽  
Teacher Labor Markets ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Best Teachers ◽  
The Relationship

Theories of market-based school reform suggest that teacher labor markets may be inefficient because schools lack autonomy to incentivize performance in hiring, retention, and compensation. We test this empirically by comparing teacher exits in the deregulated market of New Orleans with neighboring traditional school districts. We find that the relationship between teacher performance and retention is stronger in the deregulated market. We also find positive associations between salary and performance, but only when teachers transfer from one charter school to another. While teacher retention is more closely tied to performance in New Orleans, this did not yield a net gain in teacher quality, because new teachers in New Orleans were of lower average quality than their peers in neighboring districts.

scholarly journals Entrepreneurial orientation in public schools: The view from new jersey

2013 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven E. Phelan ◽  
Ane T. Johnson ◽  
Thorsten Semrau
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
New Jersey ◽  
Charter Schools ◽  
School Performance ◽  
Entrepreneurial Orientation ◽  
Traditional Schools ◽  
Entrepreneurship Research ◽  
Relevant Variables ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Relationship

We utilize a sample of New Jersey schools to explore the relationship between entrepreneurial orientation (EO) and school performance. The results indicate a significant relationship between several dimensions of EO and performance after controlling for a number of relevant variables. Charter schools were found to have higher EO than traditional schools. The implications of these findings for education and entrepreneurship research are discussed.

scholarly journals Contending with school reform

Focaal ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 (82) ◽  
pp. 94-108
Author(s):  
Mathilde Lind Gustavussen
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Charter Schools ◽  
School Reform ◽  
Education Reform ◽  
New Orleans ◽  
School System ◽  
Racial Politics ◽  
The Social ◽  
Neoliberal Policies ◽  
Us Cities

This article presents a study of state-imposed neoliberal education reform and resistance in post-Katrina New Orleans. In Hurricane Katrina’s aftermath, the city’s school system was dramatically reformed with most of its public schools replaced by privately administered “charter schools.” The article examines the social contradictions created by this reform and characterizes how the city’s education activists articulate their resistance to education privatization. Situating the reform within New Orleans’s post-Katrina neoliberal reconfiguration, it analyzes how simultaneous processes of education privatization and racial dispossession have made the reform lack popular legitimacy. The article concludes by considering how the neoliberal policies implemented after the storm were conditioned by race, arguing that racial politics should be considered fundamental, rather than adjacent, to the study of neoliberalization in US cities.

Concentration in the Labor Market for Public School Teachers

ILR Review ◽  
1986 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 573-584 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Luizer ◽  
Robert Thornton
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Labor Markets ◽  
Bachelor's Degree ◽  
Public School Teachers ◽  
Teacher Labor Market ◽  
Teacher Labor Markets ◽  
Wage Effects ◽  
Monopsony Power ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Teacher Labor

Recent studies that have investigated the relationship between the monopsony power of school districts and teachers' salaries have reached conflicting conclusions. The authors of this paper argue that the discrepancies among previous studies may be due to the arbitrary demarcation of the boundaries of teacher labor markets and the use of faulty measures of monopsony. Using a new procedure for defining teacher labor market boundaries and several alternative indices of concentration, this study finds evidence of monopsonistic activity in local teacher labor markets in Pennsylvania. The monopsony wage effects are small, however, and are present mainly at the mid-to-upper ranges of the bachelor's degree salary scale.

It’s Who You Know: The Role of Social Networks in a Changing Labor Market

2019 ◽  
Vol 57 (4) ◽  
pp. 1485-1524
Author(s):  
Huriya Jabbar ◽  
Marisa Cannata ◽  
Emily Germain ◽  
Andrene Castro
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Charter Schools ◽  
Labor Markets ◽  
Job Search ◽  
San Antonio ◽  
The United States ◽  
Alternative Teacher Certification ◽  
Teacher Labor Markets

Teacher labor markets are evolving across the United States. The rise of charter schools, alternative teacher certification, and portfolio districts are transforming teachers’ access to employment, changing the way they search for and apply for jobs, and may also change the role that social networks play in the job search. However, we know little about how teachers use their networks to find jobs, particularly in increasingly fragmented local labor markets. We draw on interviews with 127 teachers in three districts chosen to reflect an increasing presence of charter schools: New Orleans, Detroit, and San Antonio. We find that the extent of fragmentation in a city’s labor market drives the use of networks, with important implications for job access and equity.

The effects of charter school enrollment losses and tuition reimbursements on school districts: Lifting boats or sinking them?

2020 ◽  
pp. 089590482095112
Author(s):  
Bryan A. Mann ◽  
Paul Bruno
Keyword(s):  
School Districts ◽  
Charter Schools ◽  
Natural Experiment ◽  
Instructional Support ◽  
School Enrollment ◽  
Financial Health ◽  
Instructional Expenditures ◽  
Policy Choices ◽  
Brick And Mortar ◽  
The Relationship

We analyze a natural experiment in which policymakers in Pennsylvania first implemented, and later removed, reimbursements to districts for students exiting to brick and mortar and cyber charter schools. Generalized difference-in-difference models show that larger shares of students enrolling in charter schools predict decrements in spending, financial health, and achievement in sending districts; however, these relationships attenuate in years when districts receive reimbursements. After receiving reimbursements, districts with increased competition spent more on instruction and instructional support services, but not on facilities or non-instructional operations. Perhaps due to higher instructional expenditures, the relationship between competition and student achievement in reimbursement years is significantly less negative, and at times even positive, compared to non-reimbursement years. Cyber charter schools induce fewer instructional expenditures in districts than brick and mortar charter schools. The findings show clear policy choices can support traditional public systems experiencing competition.

The Influence of Cognitive and Affective Reactions to Feedback on Subsequent Goals

2010 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Remus Ilies ◽  
Timothy A. Judge ◽  
David T. Wagner
Keyword(s):  
Performance Feedback ◽  
Business School ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Emotional Reactions ◽  
Equation Model ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Dispositional Measure ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Reactions To Feedback

This paper focuses on explaining how individuals set goals on multiple performance episodes, in the context of performance feedback comparing their performance on each episode with their respective goal. The proposed model was tested through a longitudinal study of 493 university students’ actual goals and performance on business school exams. Results of a structural equation model supported the proposed conceptual model in which self-efficacy and emotional reactions to feedback mediate the relationship between feedback and subsequent goals. In addition, as expected, participants’ standing on a dispositional measure of behavioral inhibition influenced the strength of their emotional reactions to negative feedback.

Cognitive Factors Mediate the Relation Between Age and Flight Path Maintenance in General Aviation

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 81-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathleen Van Benthem ◽  
Chris M. Herdman
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Functioning ◽  
Flight Path ◽  
General Aviation ◽  
Cognitive Factors ◽  
Pilot Performance ◽  
Pilot Error ◽  
Age Related ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract. Identifying pilot attributes associated with risk is important, especially in general aviation where pilot error is implicated in most accidents. This research examined the relationship of pilot age, expertise, and cognitive functioning to deviations from an ideal circuit trajectory. In all, 54 pilots, of varying age, flew a Cessna 172 simulator. Cognitive measures were obtained using the CogScreen-AE ( Kay, 1995 ). Older age and lower levels of expertise and cognitive functioning were associated with significantly greater flight path deviations. The relationship between age and performance was fully mediated by a cluster of cognitive factors: speed and working memory, visual attention, and cognitive flexibility. These findings add to the literature showing that age-related changes in cognition may impact pilot performance.

Work Engagement and Research Output Among Female and Male Scientists

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 55-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lonneke Dubbelt ◽  
Sonja Rispens ◽  
Evangelia Demerouti
Keyword(s):  
Work Engagement ◽  
Research Output ◽  
Research Performance ◽  
Daily Work ◽  
Time Control ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
And Performance ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
Number Of Publications ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract. Women have a minority position within science, technology, engineering, and mathematics and, consequently, are likely to face more adversities at work. This diary study takes a look at a facilitating factor for women’s research performance within academia: daily work engagement. We examined the moderating effect of gender on the relationship between two behaviors (i.e., daily networking and time control) and daily work engagement, as well as its effect on the relationship between daily work engagement and performance measures (i.e., number of publications). Results suggest that daily networking and time control cultivate men’s work engagement, but daily work engagement is beneficial for the number of publications of women. The findings highlight the importance of work engagement in facilitating the performance of women in minority positions.

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