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AB  - Recruiting and retaining teachers can be challenging for many schools, especially in low-performing urban schools in which teachers turn over at higher rates. In this study, we examine three types of school-level attributes that may influence teachers’ decisions to enter or transfer schools: malleable school processes, structural features of employment, and school characteristics. Using adaptive conjoint analysis survey design with a sample of teachers from low-performing, urban, turnaround schools in Tennessee, we find that five of the seven most highly valued features of schools are malleable processes: consistent administrative support, consistent enforcement of discipline, school safety, small class sizes, and availability of high-quality professional development. In particular, teachers rated as effective are more likely to prefer performance-based pay than teachers rated ineffective. We validate our results using administrative data from Tennessee on teachers’ actual mobility patterns.
AU  - Viano, Samantha
AU  - Pham, Lam
AU  - Henry, Gary T.
AU  - Kho, Adam
AU  - Zimmer, Ron
DA  - May 2019
PY  - 2019
ST  - Push or Pull: School-Level Factors That Influence Teacher Mobility in Turnaround Schools
T2  - EdWorkingPapers.com
TI  - Push or Pull: School-Level Factors That Influence Teacher Mobility in Turnaround Schools
UR  - http://www.edworkingpapers.com/ai19-46
ER  -