The Endogeneity of the Equitable Distribution of Teachers: Or, why do the girls get all the good teachers?
Posted on April 18, 2014
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Recently, the Center for American Progress (disclosure: I have a report coming out through them soon) released a report in which they boldly concluded, based on data on teacher ratings from Massachusetts and Louisiana, that teacher quality is woefully inequitably distributed across children by the income status of those children. As evidence of these inequities, the report’s authors included a few simple graphs, like this one, showing the distribution of teachers by their performance categories:
Figure 1. CAP evidence of teacher quality inequity in Massachusetts
Based on this graph, the authors conclude:
In Massachusetts, the percentage of teachers rated Unsatisfactory is small overall, but students in high-poverty schools are three times more likely to be taught by one of them. The distribution of Exemplary teachers favors students in high-poverty schools, who are about 30 percent more likely to be taught by anThe Endogeneity of the Equitable Distribution of Teachers: Or, why do the girls get all the good teachers? | School Finance 101: