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Mohammed Abdullah Alzahrani – Journal of International Students, 2025
This study explores the key factors influencing EFL teachers' transition to higher education, focusing on financial incentives, job security, professional development, and the reputation of academia. A qualitative research study was conducted and data were collected through semistructured interviews with 18 male and female EFL teachers who had…
Descriptors: Career Change, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Matthew A. Kraft; Eric J. Brunner; Shaun M. Dougherty; David J. Schwegman – Grantee Submission, 2020
In recent years, states have sought to increase accountability for public school teachers by implementing a package of reforms centered on high-stakes evaluation systems. We examine the effect of these reforms on the supply and quality of new teachers. Leveraging variation across states and time, we find that accountability reforms reduced the…
Descriptors: Accountability, Teacher Supply and Demand, Job Satisfaction, Job Security
Matthew A. Kraft; Eric J. Brunner; Shaun M. Dougherty; David J. Schwegman – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2019
In recent years, states have sought to increase accountability for public school teachers by implementing a package of reforms centered on high-stakes evaluation systems. We examine the effect of these reforms on the supply and quality of new teachers. Leveraging variation across states and time, we find that accountability reforms reduced the…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, National Surveys, Accountability, Teacher Supply and Demand
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Connell, Raewyn – Critical Studies in Education, 2013
Education has been powerfully affected by the rise of a neoliberal political, economic and cultural agenda. The Australian experience since the 1980s is outlined. Educators need to understand neoliberalism, and also to think about the nature of education itself, as a social process of nurturing capacities for practice. Education itself cannot be…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Free Enterprise System, Politics of Education, Access to Education
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Woods, Amelia Mays; Lynn, Susan K. – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2014
Purpose: This article is nested within a longitudinal project examining 6 teachers' journeys along their career cycles (Lynn & Woods, 2010; Woods & Earls, 1995; Woods & Lynn, 2001). Two participants from the initial 6 continue to teach K-12 physical education; 1 of these participants, Everett, is examined in the current study.…
Descriptors: Physical Education Teachers, Career Development, Longitudinal Studies, Interviews
Stewart, Tim – Online Submission, 2012
This brief article posits that the drive to privatize public services in the US (United States) coupled with growing economic inequality are now so extreme that they threaten a cornerstone of American liberal democracy--quality public education. The argument rests on the assumption that there is such a concept as "the public good". This idea of…
Descriptors: Public Education, Privatization, Commercialization, Ideology
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Heydon, Rachel; Stooke, Rosamund – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2012
This paper reports on a case study of teachers' expressions of their literacy-related professional development needs in a First Nations school located in Ontario, Canada. The paper construes the work of the teachers as "border work" and argues that their literacy teaching work was complex and tied to an ongoing legacy of colonialism.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Job Security, Educational Philosophy, Canada Natives