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The Effects of District Human Resource Policies for Schools, Teachers, and Students

Mon, April 16, 8:15 to 9:45am, New York Hilton Midtown, Floor: Second Floor, Gibson Suite

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Recent evidence has raised concerns about the extent to which the level and distribution of teacher quality contribute to unsatisfactory educational outcomes and exacerbate educational inequality. This has led to many efforts to staff schools more carefully, for example through teacher evaluation reform. However, comparatively little research documents the extent to which a wide range of district staffing practices contribute to these problems or can be leveraged to improve outcomes for students and schools. This panel assembles evidence from a variety of contexts and from particular district hiring reforms to illuminate these issues for researchers and practitioners. The papers illustrate both the dynamics by which teachers sort to schools and the promise of reforms to improve school quality.

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