Panel:
Attracting, Evaluating, and Retaining Talented Teachers
(Education)
*Names in bold indicate Presenter
This panel addresses several key challenges of teacher workforce management and policy: (a) Attracting and screening potential teachers. A study of pre-college academic achievement and long run teacher performance, using data from Chile. (b) Compensation, including salaries and pensions. First, a study of teachers’ willingness to trade off higher salaries for more generous pensions, using data from Wisconsin. Second, a study of the removal of teacher pay scales in England, and how competition for teachers led to higher and more disperse salary increases. (c) Performance evaluation for teachers. A study of teachers who were incentivized to give more effort to select students—incentives created by performance evaluation rules—and teachers responses consistent with those incentives, using data from North Carolina. Selecting teachers, compensation, evaluation, and other key tasks interact to raise or lower the quality of teaching students experience in schools.
