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Uneven Playing Field? Assessing The Teacher Quality Gap Between Advantaged And Disadvantaged Students, Dan Goldhaber, Lesley Lavery, Roddy Theobald

Lesley Lavery

Abstract from article: "Policymakers aiming to close the well-documented achievement gap between advantaged and disadvantaged students have increasingly turned their attention to issues of teacher quality. A number of studies have demonstrated that teachers are inequitably distributed across student subgroups by input measures, like experience and qualifications, as well as output measures, like value-added estimates of teacher performance, but these tend to focus on either individual measures of teacher quality or particular school districts. In this study, we present a comprehensive, descriptive analysis of the inequitable distribution of both input and output measures of teacher quality across various indicators of …