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Does the Missouri Teacher Career Ladder Program Raise Student Achievement?
Publication Date: May 2009
Publisher(s): Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.
Author(s): Kevin Booker; Steven Glazerman
Funder(s): Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
Funder(s): Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
Topic: Education (Statistics, research, and research methods and financing)
Keywords: Student Achievement; Missouri; Career Ladder Program
Type: Report
Coverage: United States
Abstract:
This paper examines the program's effect on student achievement across the state, using longitudinal data on district math and reading scores for 524 Missouri school districts over a nine-year period. The estimated effects of the Career Ladder program range from small positive effects to no effect in both math and reading.