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Allison Gilmour; Equia Aniagyei-Cobbold; Roddy Theobald – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), 2024
We used longitudinal staffing data from Pennsylvania to explore differences in special education personnel attrition across personnel categories, individual characteristics, and district characteristics. Special education administrators and school psychologists had the highest attrition rates among special education personnel, with special…
Descriptors: Special Education Teachers, Faculty Mobility, Teacher Persistence, Teacher Characteristics
Emily Morton; Emma Dewil – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), 2024
Four-day school week (4DSW) schedules are growing rapidly across the U.S., with school districts citing perceived benefits to teacher recruitment and retention and student attendance as motivations for adopting the schedule. This study uses panel data from Colorado, one of the states with the highest prevalence of 4DSWs, to investigate the impacts…
Descriptors: School Schedules, Teacher Recruitment, Teacher Persistence, Attendance Patterns
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Soheyla Taie; Laurie Lewis – National Center for Education Statistics, 2023
This report presents selected findings from the Current Teacher and Former Teacher questionnaires of the 2021-22 Teacher Follow-up Survey (TFS). The TFS is a longitudinal component of the National Teacher and Principal Survey (NTPS), which is a nationally representative survey of public and private K-12 schools, principals, and teachers in the 50…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, National Surveys, Faculty Mobility, Teacher Persistence
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Springer, Matthew G.; Taylor, Lori L. – Journal of Education Human Resources, 2021
Theory suggests that strategic compensation can not only serve as a powerful motivational incentive to increase worker performance, but also improve the composition of the workforce through the attraction and retention of high performers and discouragement of lesser performers from entering or staying in the profession. This study tests the…
Descriptors: Teacher Salaries, Compensation (Remuneration), Incentives, Merit Pay
Barrett, Nathan; Carlson, Deven; Harris, Douglas N.; Lincove, Jane Arnold – Grantee Submission, 2020
Theories of market-based school reform suggest that teacher labor markets may be inefficient, and perhaps inequitable, because union contracts, tenure protections, and government regulation limit school autonomy over hiring, evaluation, compensation, and working conditions. In a less restrictive setting, schools could incentivize performance by…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Teacher Persistence, Faculty Mobility, Unions
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Barrett, Nathan; Carlson, Deven; Harris, Douglas N.; Lincove, Jane Arnold – National Center for Research on Education Access and Choice, 2020
Theories of market-based school reform suggest that teacher labor markets may be inefficient, and perhaps inequitable, because union contracts, tenure protections, and government regulation limit school autonomy over hiring, evaluation, compensation, and working conditions. In a less restrictive setting, schools could incentivize performance by…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Teacher Persistence, Labor Market, Faculty Mobility
Fuchsman, Dillon; Sass, Tim R.; Zamarro, Gema – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), 2020
Teacher turnover has adverse consequences for student achievement and imposes large financial costs for schools. Some have argued that high-stakes testing may lower teachers' satisfaction with their jobs and could be a major contributor to teacher attrition. In this paper, we exploit changes in the tested grades and subjects in Georgia to study…
Descriptors: Testing, Faculty Mobility, Teacher Distribution, High Stakes Tests
Worth, Jack; McLean, Dawson; Sharp, Caroline – National Foundation for Educational Research, 2022
Racial diversity within the school workforce is valuable in 'fostering social cohesion and most importantly, in supporting pupils to grow and develop in an environment of visible, diverse role models' (DfE, 2018c, p.2). A diverse workforce is likely to promote greater cultural understanding and inclusion when educating pupils from diverse ethnic…
Descriptors: Minority Group Teachers, Diversity (Faculty), Disproportionate Representation, Preservice Teacher Education
Sims, Sam; Jerrim, John – UK Department for Education, 2020
England currently faces a shortage of teachers, in part due to declining retention. Research suggests that one important influence on teachers' decisions about whether to leave teaching is the quality of working conditions in their school. Understanding which specific aspects of working conditions have the strongest relationship with retention…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Administrator Surveys, Teacher Surveys, Teaching Conditions
Hamidu, Maria – Wisconsin Policy Forum, 2023
Concerns over the teaching workforce have been rising across Wisconsin in recent years, particularly since the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic. A series of Forum reports have raised warning flags about declining graduates from schools of education, record turnover among state and local government employees, and the rising use of emergency K-12…
Descriptors: Faculty Mobility, Labor Turnover, Kindergarten, Elementary Secondary Education
UK Department for Education, 2021
Between June 2018 and November 2020, the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) conducted an evaluation of the Tailored Support Programme (TSP) on behalf of the Department for Education (DfE). The aim of the evaluation was to explore perceptions of the TSP and, in particular, gather data on: reasons for engagement; what was delivered;…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Consultation Programs, Teacher Recruitment, Teacher Persistence
Fermanich, Mark; Finster, Matthew – Region 5 Comprehensive Center, 2022
This study aimed to identify best practices for collecting and reporting state teacher supply and demand data. The study examined data systems for monitoring teacher demand and supply data, such as district position vacancies by certification area, candidate recruitment, and the performance and productivity of educator preparation programs.…
Descriptors: Teacher Supply and Demand, Teacher Certification, Teacher Education Programs, Diversity
Houston Independent School District, 2021
Houston Independent School District (HISD) strives to provide an equitable education to all its students. To uphold the district's mission, the Teacher Appraisal and Development System (TADS) was designed with the goal of promoting effective teaching by providing systematic, rigorous feedback on teacher effectiveness in the classroom. Through the…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Teacher Effectiveness, Public School Teachers, Summative Evaluation
Price, Lauren E.; Cramer, Eric; Milanowski, Anthony; Mader, Jordan; Robertson, Dana; Stevens, Carla J. – Houston Independent School District, 2019
The fourth cohort of the Teacher Incentive Fund federal grant competition ("TIF4") included special consideration for projects that would identify, develop, and utilize master teachers as leaders of STEM education. In September 2012, the Houston Independent School District (HISD) was awarded a TIF4 grant for $15.9 million to implement a…
Descriptors: Incentive Grants, STEM Education, School Districts, Program Evaluation
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Zhang, Tianjiao; Wang, Weiping; Yi, Li – Best Evidence in Chinese Education, 2022
Teacher shortage is a major hindrance to China's rural education growth in underdeveloped areas, as well as one of the main causes of educational injustice. We conducted a survey of 5,554 teachers from 117 towns in H province in the Wuling Mountains Zone to investigate the issue of rural school teacher supply. From geographical, emotional, and…
Descriptors: Teacher Surveys, Teacher Attitudes, Rural Areas, Teacher Characteristics
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