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Christopher Redding; Kelley A. Taksier – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2023
Stagnating teacher salaries and the widening gap between public school teachers and similar workers have led to growing concerns that teachers will seek out additional employment--possibly impacting their instructional practice in the process. Using data from the Schools and Staffing Survey and the National Teacher and Principal Survey from…
Descriptors: Public School Teachers, Multiple Employment, Teacher Persistence, Labor Turnover
Autumn Warren Raffety – ProQuest LLC, 2021
School counselor shortages and high turnover rates have been reported in school districts across the United States. These high turnover rates have led to critical problems for educational institutions as counselors serve a vital role in organizational success and stability. The purpose of this quantitative study was to investigate the relationship…
Descriptors: Labor Turnover, School Counselors, School Counseling, School Districts
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Grissom, Jason A.; Mitani, Hajime – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2016
Purpose: Superintendent retention is an important goal for many school districts, yet the factors contributing to superintendent turnover are poorly understood. Most prior quantitative studies of superintendent turnover have relied on small, cross-sectional samples, limiting the evidence base. Utilizing longitudinal administrative records from…
Descriptors: Superintendents, Labor Turnover, Salaries, School Districts
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Beckett, Lorna O. – Urban Education, 2021
Research indicates that principal turnover is increasing and urban districts are struggling to retain their principals. This study used multiple regression analysis to examine seven independent variables and their relationship to principal turnover in Colorado urban schools. This study used longitudinal data from the Colorado Department of…
Descriptors: Principals, Labor Turnover, Urban Schools, Charter Schools
Lisa McLachlan – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Widespread critical shortages of high-quality teachers in the United States (Sutcher, Darling-Hammond, Carver-Thomas, 2016) has prompted considerable research on staffing trends within the teaching profession. Research suggests both an increase in the demand for teachers and a "chronic and relatively high annual turnover compared with many…
Descriptors: Teacher Supply and Demand, Labor Turnover, Faculty Mobility, Beginning Teachers
Sharon Marie Smith – ProQuest LLC, 2021
School administrators are leaving the profession due to limited coping mechanisms and support for building resilience within themselves. Without identified supports, school administrators will more likely succumb to fatigue and face job dissatisfaction. This mixed-methods study examined the relationship between leadership style, engagement in…
Descriptors: Leadership Styles, Kindergarten, Elementary Secondary Education, School Administration
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Mandel, Zoë; Pendola, Andrew – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2021
Accountability policies in education play a significant role for the principals tasked with facilitating the implementation of these reforms at the school-level. While these policies are most often intended to improve student outcomes, this is not always the case. In some instances, these policies can prove detrimental to schools, yet principals…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Principals, Labor Turnover, Special Education
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Alenezi, Abdulaziz S. – Journal of Research in Education, 2020
This study sought to predict U.S. public-school principals' risk of turnover using nationally representative data. After screening several personal and school characteristics that might predict the likelihood of principals leaving their jobs, a logistic regression analysis was employed using 15 significant predictors out of 37 variables identified…
Descriptors: Principals, Labor Turnover, Institutional Characteristics, Administrator Characteristics
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Asadi, Ghadir – Education Economics, 2020
While school enrollment at the primary level has been rising in developing countries rapidly, international measures of education quality do not exhibit a parallel improvement. Since parents' expenditure is an important determinant of children's school performance, we investigate parents' investments on quality measured by their spending on books…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Expenditures, Academic Achievement, Parent Child Relationship
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Papay, John P.; Bacher-Hicks, Andrew; Page, Lindsay C.; Marinell, William H. – Educational Researcher, 2017
Substantial teacher turnover poses a challenge to staffing public schools with effective teachers. The scope of the teacher retention challenge across school districts, however, remains poorly defined. Applying consistent data practices and analytical techniques to administrative data sets from 16 urban districts, we document substantial…
Descriptors: Teacher Persistence, Urban Schools, Educational Policy, Urban Teaching
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Boyce, Jared; Bowers, Alex J. – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2016
The purpose of this study is to investigate the extent to which there is a typology of principals who depart from their schools in the U.S. using the 2007-2008 Schools and Staffing Survey and the 2008-2009 Principal Follow-up Survey. Prior principal retention research has focused on identifying factors that predict principal turnover; however,…
Descriptors: Principals, Labor Turnover, Administrative Change, Followup Studies
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Acosta, Imee C.; Acosta, Alexander S. – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2017
The Philippine Educational System is undergoing a major overhaul that shifts from a 10-year education to 12 years known as Enhanced Basic Education Curriculum or K-12. The purpose of this mixed-methods sequential explanatory study was to identify factors that determine readiness of select higher education institutions to the full implementation of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mixed Methods Research, Teacher Attitudes, Readiness
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Tekniepe, Robert J. – Journal of Research in Rural Education, 2015
Rural school districts play an important part in the national educational landscape. Not only do they provide nearly one in four U.S. children with many skills, including those needed to enter college, but they also act as an economic stabilization force for the communities that they serve. Superintendents of rural school districts, as the leaders…
Descriptors: Performance Factors, Superintendents, Rural Areas, Persistence
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Rozycki, Edward G. – Educational Horizons, 2009
In this article, the author talks about the school's moral responsibility and illustrates the extent that a K-12 school and its staff are responsible for its students' economic success. All school reform is based on a relatively simple model: an intervenor (the reform agent) produces change(s) in certain school variables to cause a change in…
Descriptors: Human Capital, School Restructuring, Labor Market, Education Work Relationship
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Gardner, Robert D. – Arts Education Policy Review, 2010
The purpose of this study was to construct a profile of K-12 music teachers in the United States and develop a model to predict their retention, turnover, and attrition. Responses to the "Schools and Staffing Survey" from 47,857 K-12 public and private school teachers, including 1,903 music teachers, were analyzed using comparative…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Private Schools, Elementary Secondary Education, Structural Equation Models
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