@EdWorkingPaper{ai22-552,
title = "How Did It Get This Way? Disentangling the Sources of Teacher Quality Gaps Through Agent-Based Modeling",
author = "Dan Goldhaber, Matt Kasman, Vanessa Quince, Roddy Theobald, Malcolm Wolff",
institution = "Annenberg Institute at Brown University",
number = "552",
year = "2022",
month = "March",
URL = "http://www.edworkingpapers.com/ai22-552",
abstract = {We use publicly available, longitudinal data from Washington state to study the extent to which three interrelated processesÑteacher attrition from the state teaching workforce, teacher mobility between teaching positions, and teacher hiring for open positionsÑcontribute to Òteacher quality gapsÓ (TQGs) between students of color and other students in KÐ12 public schools. Specifically, we develop and implement an agent-based model simulation of decisions about attrition, mobility, and hiring to assess the extent to which each process contributes to observed TQGs. We find that eliminating inequities in teacher mobility and hiring across different schools would close TQGs within 5 years, while just eliminating inequities in teacher hiring would close gaps within 10 years. On the other hand, eliminating inequities in teacher attrition without addressing mobility and hiring does little to close gaps.},
}