Susanna Loeb

TL;DR: This paper found that the extent to which principals perceive competition for students is not related to geographic factors such as the number of nearby schools, but perceptions of competition are related to student achievement as well as to transfer rates out of a school.

TL;DR: This paper used longitudinal administrative data, including achievement data from untested grades, and teacher survey data to find out whether school performance pressures apply disproportionately to tested grades and subjects, and found that test scores disproportionately applied to tested classes and subjects.

TL;DR: The authors found that first-year teachers who were identified as less effective at improving student test scores have higher attrition rates than do more effective teachers in both low-achieving and high achieving schools.

TL;DR: Ready4K! as discussed by the authors is a text messaging program for parents of preschoolers designed to help them support their children's literacy development, which targets the behavioral barriers to good parenting by breaking down the complexity of parenting into small steps that are easy-to-achieve.

TL;DR: In this article, a policy brief summarizes states' policy approaches to teacher professional development and education throughout teachers' careers and explores what states are currently doing in the realms of pre-service education, induction and mentoring, ongoing professional development, and teacher evaluation, as well as existing evidence regarding the effectiveness of such policies.