Browsing Graduate School of Education by Author "West, Martin"
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Can States Take Over and Turn Around Low-Performing School Districts? Evidence on Policy Effects and Political Dynamics From Lawrence, Massachusetts
Schueler, Beth E. (2016-05-13)Turning around persistently low-performing K-12 schools and districts has been an elusive goal despite prioritization at the highest levels of government. In recent years, the U.S. Department of Education encouraged states ... -
Citizen Perceptions of Government Service Quality: Evidence from Public Schools
Chingos, Matthew Mark; Henderson, Michael; West, Martin Raymond (NOW, 2012)Conventional models of democratic accountability hinge on citizens’ ability to evaluate government performance accurately, yet there is little evidence on the degree to which citizen perceptions of the quality of government ... -
Do More Effective Teachers Earn More Outside of the Classroom?
Chingos, Matthew Mark; West, Martin Raymond (CESifo Group Munich, 2010)We examine earnings records for 90,000 classroom teachers employed by Florida public schools between the 2001–02 and 2006–07 school years, roughly 20,000 of whom left teaching during that time. Among grade 4–8 teachers ... -
Does Practice-Based Teacher Preparation Increase Student Achievement? Early Evidence from the Boston Teacher Residency
Papay, John P.; West, Martin Raymond; Fullerton, Jon; Kane, Thomas J. (2011)The Boston Teacher Residency is an innovative practice-based preparation program in which candidates work alongside a mentor teacher for a year before becoming a teacher of record in Boston Public Schools. We find that BTR ... -
Education and Global Competitiveness: Lessons for the United States from International Evidence
West, Martin Raymond (2012-09-11) -
The Effects of Early Grade Retention on Student Outcomes over Time: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Florida
Schwerdt, Guido; West, Martin Raymond (2012)A growing number of American states and school districts require students to meet basic performance standards in core academic subjects at key transition points in order to be promoted to the next grade. We exploit a ... -
The Impact of Alternative Grade Configurations on Student Outcomes through Middle and High School
Schwerdt, Guido; West, Martin Raymond (Elsevier, 2012)We use statewide administrative data from Florida to estimate the impact of attending public schools with different grade configurations on student achievement through grade 10. Based on an instrumental variable estimation ... -
The non-cognitive returns to class size.
Dee, Thomas S.; West, Martin Raymond (2011)We use nationally representative survey data and a research design that relies on contemporaneous within-student and within-teacher comparisons across two academic subjects to estimate how class size affects certain ... -
Promotion and reassignment in public school districts: How do schools respond to differences in teacher effectiveness?
Chingos, Matthew Mark; West, Martin Raymond (2011)We use a unique administrative database from the state of Florida to provide the first evidence that promotion and other job reassignments within school districts are systematically related to differences in teacher ... -
Teach Gwinnett: A Case Study
Wooten, Amy Lynn (2014-10-22)Attempting to drive change through federal policy is a complicated business. On the one hand, legislation that is too prescriptive may result in unintended consequences. On the other hand, federal policy lacking substance ... -
Teacher and Teaching Effects on Students' Academic Performance, Attitudes, and Behaviors
Blazar, David (2016-05-09)Research confirms that teachers have substantial impacts on their students’ academic and life-long success. However, little is known about specific dimensions of teaching practice that explain these relationships or whether ...