Teacher production has important implications for our education system. Leveraging more than a decade of national data, the authors examine the supply of teachers and changes in the reserve pool of teachers in the United States. They find a substantial decrease in the teacher supply coinciding with the increase in demand for teachers starting in…

Educator labor markets vary considerably across the country and can change quickly during recessions. We use data from the Quality Workforce Indicators (QWI) on educators in Elementary and Secondary Schools from 2000-01 to 2022-23. We demonstrate how to transform the quarter-level data in the QWI to construct valid educator labor market measures.…

This policy brief examines one type of "leak" in the Wisconsin educator pipeline, a leak in the number of recent graduates from one of the state's 40+ educator preparation programs (EPPs) electing to work in Illinois or Minnesota public schools. While this group is numerically small, with just 38 Wisconsin 2017-18 EPP completers working…

This study investigates whether a principal's likelihood of hiring a teacher of color is sensitive to the racial composition of students in the school. We used an administrative dataset from Texas including 59,157 principal observations and 662,997 teacher observations spanning 2000-2017 to consider whether or not the disappearing diversity in a…

Background: The labour market for classroom teachers in England is a mixture of free-market capitalism and state workforce planning, interlaced with ideological and political interventions such as the introduction of new routes into teaching and the capping of class size. Purpose: The article examines the relationship between the teacher labour…

Australia has an ageing academic workforce and the nation's capacity to refresh, build and maintain this workforce during a period of expansion in tertiary education participation needs urgent consideration. To inform possible strategies to recruit and retain academic staff, this study investigates the current attitudes of the academic profession…

This article focuses on an overlooked factor in the unequal sorting of teachers across schools: the geographic preferences of teachers. Using data from the National Education Longitudinal Study, the author examines the patterns of geographic mobility of new teachers and compares them to the patterns of other college graduates. Specifically, the…

Since 1988, researchers have monitored the extent and severity of the chronic special education (SE) faculty shortage. The present study sought to add to this knowledge base by (a) gathering data on the supply and demand of leadership personnel in SE since the "2001 Faculty Shortage Study"; (b) combining and comparing these data with other sources…

Created in 2007, the Teaching Fellowship builds on Woodrow Wilson's sixty-five-year commitment to strengthen American education by bringing talented individuals into education careers. The Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellowship seeks both to recruit and prepare new teachers with outstanding records of achievement and to transform the college and…

This article projects the demand for elementary and secondary teachers in California for five and ten year periods, projects the supply for the same periods, and assesses proposed educational improvements for their effect on teacher supply and demand. (MT)

This report documents the nature of teacher shortages in Connecticut for the 1987-88 school year from multiple perspectives. A general overview is provided through a statewide analysis based on totals summed across all positions. Analyses of individual positions and position categories with reference to the number of school districts with…

A study of employment rates of 1992 technology education graduates from State University of New York-Oswego (n=249) looked at vacancies and salaries, concluding that high school students should be encouraged to enter the technology teacher education program. (JOW)

This report considers the question of what becomes of college graduates who are newly qualified to teach and who face a teacher surplus. National statistics provide data on the following questions: What is the state of the market for new teachers? How do graduates newly qualified to teach fare in the labor market compared to other graduates? What…

An update of a previous study produced information on the status of special education professional personnel in Michigan. Computer tape copies of the state's Professional Personnel Register and Certification Master File were analyzed. Detailed data are reported for eight basic tasks, including employment of beginning professional personnel in…

This paper reports teacher survival rates in the St. Louis metropolitan area and updates a similar 1978 study by the authors. High dropout rates continue to exist in the beginning years of teaching for each entering cohort. Implications for teacher effectiveness, salaries, and future demand for new teachers are discussed. (Author/BS)