Working Papers, Policy Briefs & Reports
Regulatory Arbitrage in Teacher Hiring and Retention
Authors: Jesse M. Bruhn, Scott A. Imberman, & Marcus A. Winters Project Summary Charter schools typically have greater flexibility in their employment practices than do traditional public schools. However, it is not clear the extent to which charter schools capitalize on this comparative labor market flexibility to remove low value-added teachers or better retain high value-added teachers. Jesse Bruhn, Scott Imberman, and Marcus Winters use longitudinal administrative data from...
Are Two Teachers Better than One? The Effect of Co-Teaching on Students with and without Disabilities
Authors: Nathan Jones & Marcus A. Winters Project SummaryCo-teaching has become a common strategy for educating students with disabilities in inclusive environments. It involves a general education teacher and a special education teacher working together to teach students with and without disabilities in a single classroom. Co-teaching is meant to give students with disabilities access to both the general education curriculum and the specially designed instruction outlined in their...