Attracting and Retaining Highly Effective Educators in Hard-to-Staff Schools

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Morgan, Andrew; Nguyen, Minh; Hanushek, Eric; Ost, Ben; Rivkin, Steven
• 署名单位: South Dakota State University; Ball State University; Stanford University; University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas; National Bureau of Economic Research; University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Chicago; University of Illinois Chicago Hospital
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL-ECONOMIC POLICY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1945-7731
• DOI: 10.1257/pol.20240356
• 发表日期: 2026
• 关键词: teachers; achievement; QUALITY; instruction; inference; district; impacts; LEVEL; STATA

摘要

Attracting and retaining effective teachers in high-poverty schools remains a persistent challenge. We evaluate the impact of an initiative that offered substantial performance-based compensation to highly effective teachers in the lowest-achieving schools. We find that the program led to dramatic improvements in achievement, nearly closing the gap between the targeted schools and the district average. When the program was later reversed for some campuses, effective teachers departed at high rates, resulting in an immediate decline in student achievement. The results underscore the potential for effectiveness-based compensating differentials to attract and retain effective teachers in disadvantaged schools. (JEL H75, I21, I28, J31, J45)