# Helen Ladd

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The Hidden Costs of Teacher Turnover

Researchers have found that teacher turnover costs U.S. schools billions of dollars each year. Significantly less is known, however, about its impacts on teaching quality and staff composition. A new study of those "hidden costs," coauthored by the University at Albany’s Lucy Sorensen and Duke ...

Ep. 135 - Oct. 10, 2018: Thinking Clearly About the Goals of Education

Should data drive decision-making in education policy or should data be used in the service of our values? Harry Brighouse and Susanna Loeb join Marty West to discuss how the tools of philosophy and social science can help policymakers make better decisions. Brighouse and Loeb, along with Hele ...

Educational Goods

In this episode, we meet with Dr. Helen Ladd, Professor Emerita of Economics and Public Policy at Duke University, who also advises Systems Approach for Better Education Results at The World Bank, to discuss her most recent book, "Educational Goods: Values, Evidence, and Decision-Making."

Getting Our Money's Worth in K-12 Education

The U.S. spends more per student than most of the world's industrialized nations, but our test scores on math and science are in the middle of the pack. Are we getting our money's worth in K-12 education? Helen Ladd and Martin West debate the question on this episode of Zeroing In, hosted by Aar ...

Helen Ladd - School Choice and Segegation: Evidence from the United States

Helen Ladd (Duke University) talks to Romesh Vaitilingam about the work she presented at the 'School choice' conference in Bristol.