This report contains national trend and predictor data for the turnover of K-12 public school teachers in eight cognate areas: general elementary education; mathematics and science education; language education; social studies education; arts, physical, and health education; business and vocational education; other general education; and special…

An important issue in the education reform debate is the effect of comparatively low salaries on teacher quality. Prose literacy scores are one of the best available measures of verbal ability, a factor identified by research as being associated with teacher quality. If teachers have lower prose literacy scores relative to college graduates in…

A wide range of fringe benefit practices offered to superintendents are summarized in this report. Based on a national panel sample stratified by enrollment size, results are reported separately according to four enrollment groupings by size, per pupil expenditure, and geographic region. Data on leave policies, insurance coverage, retirement…