The Long-Term Impacts of Teachers: Teacher Value-Added and Student Outcomes in Adulthood

National Bureau of Economic Research
Raj Chetty, John N. Friedman, Jonah E. Rocko
January 23, 2012
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A teacher's "value-added" is defined as the average test-score gain for his or her students, adjusted for differences across classrooms in student characteristics (such as their previous scores). Is teacher value-added a good measure of teacher quality? Check out this graph, along with others and their accompanying report, in the link below.

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