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Addonizio, C. Philip Kearney, and Marytza A. Gawlik  \nMichael F. Addonizio is Professor of Education Policy Studies at Wayne State University. His teaching and research interests include public school finance, charter schools, school choice, teacher labor markets, and the economics of education.  \nC. Philip Kearney is Professor Emeritus, The University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, where he also served as Director of the Bureau of Accreditation and School Improvement Studies, Associate Dean, and Interim Dean. His research and scholarship centers on public policy decisions, particularly governance and finance decisions at state and national levels.  \nMarytzaA. Gawlikis Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at Florida State University. She draws from organizational sociology and political economics to investigate the contributions made by policy and school reform initiatives. Her scholarship focuses on charter schools, professional autonomy, accountability, sensemaking, and teacher quality.  \nIntroduction  \nIn the quest to raise student achievement in low-performing urban schools, researchers often point to the central importance of recruitment and retention of a high quality teacher workforce (Lankford, Loeb and Wyckoff 2002; Rivkin, Hanushek and Kain 2005; Jacob 2007) .1 At the same time, advocates have proposed charter schools not only as a means to reform traditional public schools, but also as a strategy to close the achievement gap between urban students and their suburban counterparts in no small part because charter schools are often freed from many of the constraints faced by traditional public schools, allowing them greater flexibility to recruit and retain a qualitatively different teacher workforce (Center for Education Reform n.d.) .  \nUsing data for the Detroit metropolitan region of Wayne, Oakland, and Macomb counties for the 2005-2006 school year, this study sought to answer four research questions:  \n(1) Did charter school teachers differ in measures of teacher quality from traditional public school teachers; (2) Was there variability in teacher quality within traditional public and charter schools; (3) To what extent were teacher quality indicators associated with teacher effectiveness; and (4) Did teacher sorting take place across charter and traditional public schools? This article is divided into eight sections. It begins with a background section on charter schools in Michigan, followed by a section on research on teacher quality and sorting. The third section presents research methods used in the study while findings are discussed in the next four sections, one for each of the research questions. The article closes with a summary, conclusions, and recommendations for future research.  \nCharter Schools in Michigan  \nThe general concept of charter schools has been discussed in a large and growing research literature (Allen and Gawlik 2009; Archer 2000; Buckley and Schneider 2007; Bulkley 2004; Crawford 2001; Chubb and Moe 1990; Fuller 2000; Gawlik 2007, 2008; Hill, Pierce, and Guthrie 1997; Lyons 1995; McGree  \n20 Vol. 42, No. 2, Spring 2015  \n1995; Miron and Nelson 2002; Nathan 1996; Reyes, Wagstaff, and Fusarelli 1999; Wohlstetter, Wenning, and Briggs 1995) .2 A core assumption of charter school advocates is that school autonomy and deregulation can raise teacher quality and student performance, particularly in high poverty urban areas where charter schools tend to be concentrated (Baker and Dickerson 2006) . The extent to which charter schools are freed from state regulation and thereby differentiate themselves from traditional public schools, however, differs across states. For example, state charter school laws vary in terms of teacher licensure requirements; eligibility to seek a charter and/or operate a charter school; control of teacher contracts; public financ","cbCain2q8TGRRjoy","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCain2q8TGRRjoy","pdf",282309,15,"English","# Introduction\n# Charter Schools in Michigan\n# Research Methods\n# Findings on Teacher Quality Differences\n# Findings on Within-Sector Variability\n# Findings on Associations with Teacher Effectiveness\n# Findings on Sorting Across Sectors\n# Summary, Conclusions, and Recommendations","[{\"question\":\"What four research questions guide the study?\",\"answer\":\"The study asks whether charter and traditional public school teachers differ in teacher quality measures, whether teacher quality varies within each sector, how quality indicators relate to teacher effectiveness, and whether sorting occurs across charter and traditional public schools.\"},{\"question\":\"Why does the study focus on teacher recruitment and retention?\",\"answer\":\"The work links low-performing urban school improvement to the importance of having and sustaining a high-quality teacher workforce, emphasizing recruitment and retention as central levers for student achievement.\"},{\"question\":\"What time frame and geographic scope does the analysis use?\",\"answer\":\"The study uses data from the Detroit metropolitan region (Wayne, Oakland, and Macomb counties) for the 2005-2006 school year.\"}]","Teacher Quality and Sorting across Traditional Public and Charter Schools in the Detroit Metropolitan Region | PDF",1792093241,38]