The Distribution of Effective Teachers Within and Across Districts in North Carolina

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Abstract

In this study, we aim to determine the extent to which all public school teachers in North Carolina have equal access to high quality educators, by analyzing the distribution of “highly effective” teachers across and within local education agencies (LEAs) in North Carolina. Specifically, this paper seeks to answer the following questions: 1) Across the state, do certain LEAs have a larger proportion of highly effective teachers than others? 2) Across the state, do students in LEAs with certain characteristics have more or less access to highly effective teachers? 3) How are highly effective teachers distributed within each LEA?

Authors

• Allison Rose Socol, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

• Sachi Takahashi-Rial, Duke University

• Micah Guindon, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

• Hunter Huffman, North Carolina State University