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Manuel Monti-Nussbaum
Is Teacher Effectiveness Fully Portable? Evidence from the Random Assignment of Transfer Incentives
Tags: Equity, Returns to education and skills, School climate and culture, Teacher hiring and retentionWe examine how performance changes when teachers transfer across very different school contexts. The Talent Transfer Initiative program created a rare natural experiment to study such transfers by randomly assigning low-achieving schools the ability to offer high-performing teachers at higher-… more →
The Big Problem with Little Interruptions to Classroom Learning
Narrative accounts of classroom instruction suggest that external interruptions, such as intercom announcements and visits from staff, are a regular occurrence in U.S. public schools. We study the frequency, nature, and duration of external interruptions in the Providence Public School District… more →