TY  - JOUR
AU  - Jackson,C. Kirabo
AU  - Bruegmann,Elias
TI  - Teaching Students and Teaching Each Other: The Importance of Peer Learning for Teachers
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 15202
PY  - 2009
Y2  - August 2009
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w15202
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w15202.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
C. Kirabo Jackson
Northwestern University
School of Education and Social Policy
2040 Sheridan Road
Evanston, IL 60208
Tel: 847/467-1803
E-Mail: kirabo-jackson@northwestern.edu

Elias Bruegmann
Cornerstone Research
E-Mail: no email available
AB  - Using longitudinal elementary school teacher and student data, we document that students have larger test score gains when their teachers experience improvements in the observable characteristics of their colleagues. Using within-school and within-teacher variation, we further show that a teacher’s students have larger achievement gains in math and reading when she has more effective colleagues (based on estimated value-added from an out-of-sample pre-period). Spillovers are strongest for less-experienced teachers and persist over time, and historical peer quality explains away about twenty percent of the own-teacher effect, results that suggest peer learning.
ER  -