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Kayla N. Marsh; Christopher J. Eck; K. Dale Layfield; Joseph L. Donaldson – Journal of Research Initiatives, 2025
Teacher attrition is a historic problem that is now an educational crisis. School-based agricultural education (SBAE) is not exempt from this crisis, with teacher shortages dating back to the passing of the Smith-Hughes Act. For the past three decades, researchers have studied this phenomenon to better understand the needs of SBAE teachers to…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Agriculture Teachers, Educational Needs, Individual Needs
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Eck, Christopher J.; Edwards, M. Craig – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2019
Ongoing teacher shortages in SBAE have been a concern dating back to the Smith-Hughes Act of 1917 (Hillison, 1987). This historical inquiry identified the longitudinal trends revealed by data derived from the supply and demand studies of SBAE teachers over a 51-year period, and how the studies and their reporting procedures evolved. On average,…
Descriptors: Teacher Shortage, Agricultural Education, Vocational Education Teachers, Vocational Education