Applying Organizational Research to Public School Reform: The Effects of Teacher Human and Social Capital on Student Performance

We investigated the effects of teacher human and social capital on growth in student performance in a sample of 1,013 teachers organized into 239 grade teams. We found that teacher human capital th...

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