Teacher Sorting and the Plight of Urban Schools: A Descriptive Analysis

By H. Lankford, Susanna Loeb, J. Wyckoff. 2002

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Access to Effective Teaching for Disadvantaged Students (2013, background): “These studies show that disadvantaged students are more likely to be taught by less qualified teachers as measured in these ways (Carroll et al. 2000; Lankford et al. 2002; Presley et al. 2005; Clotfelter et al. 2006; Education Trust 2008).”
Can Teacher Quality Be Effectively Assessed? National Board Certification as a Signal of Effective Teaching (2005, background): “Nonwhite, poor, and low-performing students are more likely to be taught by less-qualified teachers, as measured by experience and degree levels, licensure status, licensure exam performance, and college selectivity (Lankford et al. 2002).”
Student Demographics, Teacher Sorting, and Teacher Quality: Evidence from the End of School Desegregation (2009, neutral): “…tend to have teachers with lower qualifications than low-poverty schools [Betts, Reuben and Danenberg (2000), Clotfelter, Ladd, Vigdor and Wheeler (2007), Lankford, Loeb, and Wyckoff (2002), Scafidi, Sjoquist and Stinebrickner (2007) Hanushek, Kain and Rivkin (2003), Hanushek and Rivkin (2004)].”
Context matters: principals' sensemaking of teacher hiring and on‐the‐job performance (2011, background): “” The teacher attrition literature ( Lankford et al. , 2002”
Systematic Sorting (2013, background): “These schools often face difficulty attracting and retaining effective teachers (Ferguson 1998; Krei 1998; Lankford et al. 2002).”
Uneven Playing Field? Assessing the Teacher Quality Gap Between Advantaged and Disadvantaged Students (2015, methodology): “More than a decade ago, Lankford, Loeb, and Wyckoff (2002) used the New York State education workforce database to examine the distribution of teacher qualifications (teacher experience, degree, certification, and college of attendance) throughout the state.”
Is experience the best teacher? A multilevel analysis of teacher characteristics and student achievement in low performing schools (2009, background): “The phenomenon of teacher sorting may also be apparent, where minorities and economically disadvantaged children are more likely to be taught by the least skilled teachers (Lankford et al. 2002).”