Teach For America Investing in Innovation scale-up program

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Evidence · 4 claims (3 for, 1 mixed) · 1 study (1 causal), q3 · 1 of 1 report an effect size · 4 claims rest on one study

Description

A Teach For America program that recruited, trained, and placed new corps-member teachers in high-poverty schools.

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Claims

• TFA teachers in grades 1 and 2 had a positive effect on math achievement of 0.16 standard deviations that was almost statistically significant (p-value = 0.054) [+W]
• TFA corps members hired in the first two years of the i3 scale-up were as effective as other teachers in the same high-poverty schools in teaching reading and math [+M]
• TFA teachers in lower elementary grades (prekindergarten through grade 2) had a positive, statistically significant effect on reading achievement of 0.12 standard deviations [+W]
• No statistically significant TFA impacts were found for upper elementary grades (3 through 5) in reading or math or for other examined subgroups [~M]

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Key Sources

• Clark, Melissa A.; Isenberg, Eric; Liu, Albert Y.; Makowsky, Libby; Zukiewicz, Marykate. (2017). Impacts of the Teach For America Investing in Innovation Scale-Up. Princeton, NJ: Mathematica Policy Research. https://www.mathematica.org/publications/impacts-of-the-teach-for-america-investing-in-innovation-scaleup

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