Managing the Teacher Workforce in Austere Times: The Determinants and Implications of Teacher Layoffs

Autor/inn/en	Goldhaber, Dan; Theobald, Roddy
Titel	Managing the Teacher Workforce in Austere Times: The Determinants and Implications of Teacher Layoffs
Quelle	In: Education Finance and Policy, 8 (2013) 4, S.494-527 (34 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1557-3060
DOI	10.1162/EDFP_a_00111
Schlagwörter	Job Layoff; Teachers; Prediction; Employment Level; Masters Degrees; Mathematics Teachers; Science Teachers; Special Education Teachers; Teacher Effectiveness; Teacher Characteristics; Predictor Variables; Probability; Washington + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Beurlaubung; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Vorhersage; Beschäftigungsgrad; Mathematics; Teacher; Teachers; Mathematik; Science; Science teacher; Wissenschaft; Special education; Sonderpädagoge; Sonderpädagogik; Sonderschulwesen; Effectiveness of teaching; Instructional effectiveness; Lehrerleistung; Unterrichtserfolg; Prädiktor; Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung; Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie
Abstract	Over 2,000 teachers in the state of Washington received reduction in force (RIF) notices across the 2008-09 and 2009-10 school years. We link data on these RIF notices to an administrative data set that includes student, teacher, school, and district variables to determine the factors that predict the likelihood of a teacher receiving a RIF notice. Not surprisingly, we find that a teacher's seniority is the strongest predictor, but we also find (all else equal) that teachers with master's degrees and those credentialed in the high-need areas of math, science, and special education were less likely to receive a RIF notice. Value-added measures of teacher effectiveness, which can be calculated for a subset of the teachers, were not correlated with the probability of receiving a RIF notice. Finally, simulations suggest that a very different group of teachers would be targeted for layoffs under an effectiveness-based layoff scenario than under the seniority-driven system that exists today. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10