Wood, W. Jesse
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Lai, Ijun
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Filosa, Neil R.
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Imberman, Scott A.
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Jones, Nathan D.
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Strunk, Katharine O.
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National Bureau of Economic Research
Are Effective Teachers for Students with Disabilities Effective Teachers for All?
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The success of many students with disabilities (SWDs) depends on access to high-quality general education teachers. Yet, most measures of teacher value-added measures (VAM) fail to distinguish between a teacher's effectiveness in educating students with and without disabilities. We create two VAM measures: one focusing on teachers' effectiveness in improving outcomes for SWDs, and one for non-SWDs. We find top-performing teachers for non-SWDs often have relatively lower VAMs for SWDs, and that SWDs sort to teachers with lower scores in both VAMs. Overall, SWD-specific VAMs may be more suitable for identifying which teachers have a history of effectiveness with SWDs and could play a role in ensuring that students are being optimally assigned to these teachers