Examining the role of race/ethnicity in principal labor markets : why diversity matters
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Policymakers and educators have placed a great deal of importance on cultivating a diverse education workforce. Although diversity in the education workforce is a concern, the existing literature regarding the benefits of diversity suffers from two major weaknesses: a dearth of rigorous empirical evidence and a disproportionate focus on teachers. This dissertation addresses these weaknesses in the literature. First, the dissertation contributes methodologically to the literature on diversity in the education workforce by employing a combination of large-scale administrative data, survey data, and quasi-experimental techniques. Second, this dissertation broadens the research base by exploring the racial dynamics of principal labor markets with respect to recruitment, manager-employee relations, and productivity (i.e. performance on standardized tests). The dissertation finds, on average, black teachers are more likely than white teachers to become school administrators. With respect to manager-employee relations, the dissertation finds that the race of the principal is associated with the racial composition of new teacher hires and white teachers are less mobile when they work with white principals. In addition, black teachers are more likely to pursue careers in school administration with greater exposure to black principals. The relationship between principal race and student achievement is less compelling. However, there is some evidence to suggest that black student subgroups perform better on state assessment with a same race-principal.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2015 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Williams, Imeh J |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Graduate School of Education. |
| Primary advisor | Loeb, Susanna |
| Thesis advisor | Loeb, Susanna |
| Thesis advisor | Bettinger, Eric |
| Thesis advisor | Reardon, Sean F |
| Advisor | Bettinger, Eric |
| Advisor | Reardon, Sean F |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Imeh J. Williams. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Graduate School of Education. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2015. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2015 by Imeh Justine Williams
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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