Donald Boyd, Hamilton Lankford, Susanna Loeb, James Wyckoff
This paper explores a little-understood aspect of labor markets, their spatial geography. Using data from New York State, we find teacher labor markets to be geographically very small. Teachers...
Haefner, Jeremy, Gatley, Ian, Stone, Joan, Nasr, Nabil, Boyd, Donald, Walker, Fred, ...
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RIT Research Programs 2007 Annual Report (2007)
Boyd, Donald, Kandlikar, Satish, Borkholder, David, Fairchild, Mark, DiFonzo, Nicholas, Figer, Donald, ...
Faculty Research and Scholarship
RIT news & events January 25, 2007 (2007)
Black, Karen, Borgna, Brandon, Downs, Kelly, Dube, Will, Follaco, John, Gawlowicz, Susan, ...
Originally issued in print. News & Events is RIT's newspaper of record, published biweekly during the academic year. News & Events is distributed widely across campus in print format, and is also...
RIT Research Programs 2003 Annual Report (2003)
Boyd, Donald, Smith, Bruce, Raffaelle, Ryne, Gennett, Thomas, Schott, John, Anderson, Peter, ...
Faculty Research and Scholarship
Teacher Preparation and Student Achievement
Donald Boyd, Pamela Grossman, Hamilton Lankford, Susanna Loeb, James Wyckoff
There are fierce debates over the best way to prepare teachers. Some argue that easing entry into teaching is necessary to attract strong candidates, while others argue that investing in high quality...
Donald Boyd, Hamilton Lankford, Susanna Loeb, Jonah Rockoff, James Wyckoff
The gap between the qualifications of New York City teachers in high-poverty schools and low-poverty schools has narrowed substantially since 2000. Most of this gap-narrowing resulted from changes in...
Donald Boyd, Hamilton Lankford, Susanna Loeb, James Wyckoff
Although there is growing recognition of the contribution of teachers to students' educational outcomes, there are large gaps in our understanding of how teacher labor markets function. Most research...
The Draw of Home: How Teachers' Preferences for Proximity Disadvantage Urban Schools
Donald Boyd, Hamilton Lankford, Susanna Loeb
This paper explores a little understood aspect of labor markets, their spatial geography. Using data from New York State, we find teacher labor markets to be geographically very small. Teachers...
How Changes in Entry Requirements Alter the Teacher Workforce and Affect Student Achievement
Donald Boyd, Pamela Grossman, Hamilton Lankford, Susanna Loeb, James Wyckoff
We are in the midst of what amounts to a national experiment in how best to attract, prepare, and retain teachers, particularly for high poverty urban schools. Using data on students and teachers in...
Teacher Preparation and Student Achievement
There are fierce debates over the best way to prepare teachers. Some argue that easing entry into teaching is necessary to attract strong candidates, while others argue that investing in high quality...