Title Information
Title
Turnover at the Top: Estimating the Effects of Principal Turnover on Student, Teacher, and School Outcomes
Name
Name Part
Gary T. Henry
Role
Role Term (marcrelator) (authorityURI="http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators", valueURI="http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut")
author
Name
Name Part
Erica Harbatkin
Role
Role Term (marcrelator) (authorityURI="http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators", valueURI="http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut")
author
Subject
Topic
principal turnover
Subject
Topic
principals
Subject
Topic
principal labor market
Subject (edworkp)
Topic
K-12 Education
Subject (edworkp)
Topic
Educator labor markets
Origin Information
Date Created
2019
Publisher
Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University
Abstract
One in five schools loses its principal each year. Despite the prevalence of principal turnover, little empirical research has examined its effects on school outcomes. Because principal turnover may occur in response to or contemporaneous with a downturn in student achievement, the effect of a turnover is confounded with unobserved school-level factors. We employ a novel identification strategy that blocks each potential source of endogeneity to isolate plausibly causal effects of within- and between-year principal turnover. Using eight years of North Carolina administrative data from 2009-2018, we find that principal turnover is associated with significant decreases in student achievement and increases in teacher turnover. These effects are similar whether the turnover occurs over the summer or during the school year.
Language
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eng
Type of Resource
text
Genre (aat)
grey literature
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Identifier: DOI
10.26300/c7m1-bb67
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