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To estimate the causal effect of grade-level teacher turnover on elementary student achievement in math and English language arts.

October 24, 2012American Educational Research Journal

How Teacher Turnover Harms Student Achievement

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MRMatthew RonfeldtUniversity of Michigan SLSusanna LoebJohn Brown University JWJames WyckoffUniversity of Virginia

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Panel study demonstrates teacher turnover reduces academic achievement in elementary students, indicating disruptive institutional effects beyond teacher quality.

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To estimate the causal effect of grade-level teacher turnover on elementary student achievement in math and English language arts.
Analyzed over 850,000 fourth- and fifth-grade student observations across an 8-year panel in New York City public schools.
Identified causal effects using school-by-grade level turnover variation analyzed with two classes of fixed-effects models.
Higher teacher turnover at the grade level significantly reduced student test scores in both English language arts (ELA) and math.
Negative effects of turnover were disproportionately severe in schools with higher proportions of low-performing and Black students.
Turnover produced a disruptive organizational effect that harmed student achievement beyond shifts in observable teacher quality.

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Ronfeldt et al. (2012) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69d72a44cd480cb7e5f50ecf https://doi.org/10.3102/0002831212463813

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Panel study demonstrates teacher turnover reduces academic achievement in elementary students, indicating disruptive institutional effects beyond teacher quality.

How Teacher Turnover Harms Student Achievement

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How Teacher Turnover Harms Student Achievement

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