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Robert Pondiscio – American Enterprise Institute, 2024
The author's statement to the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions on the challenges faced by America's classroom teachers focuses on a few of the factors that lead to teacher frustration and burnout that higher pay, however well-intended, does not change. They include, but are not limited to, poor teacher preparation,…
Descriptors: Teacher Salaries, Teaching (Occupation), Teacher Attitudes, Job Satisfaction
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Doan, Sy; Steiner, Elizabeth D.; Pandey, Rakesh; Woo, Ashley – RAND Corporation, 2023
The well-being and mental health of kindergarten through grade 12 (K-12) public school teachers has been a topic of national concern during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. In 2021 and 2022, teachers were twice as likely to report experiencing frequent job-related stress and difficulty coping with their job-related stress than the…
Descriptors: Teacher Surveys, State of the Art Reviews, Public School Teachers, Elementary School Teachers
Santoro, Doris A. – Harvard Education Press, 2018
"Demoralized: Why Teachers Leave the Profession They Love and How They Can Stay" offers a timely analysis of professional dissatisfaction that challenges the common explanation of burnout. Featuring the voices of educators, the book offers concrete lessons for practitioners, school leaders, and policy makers on how to think more…
Descriptors: Teacher Burnout, Faculty Mobility, Teacher Persistence, Job Satisfaction
Bunge, Charles – Library Journal, 1987
Reports results of a survey of 800 library staff members on aspects of library work that they find stressful. The findings include sources of satisfaction and stress for all participants, and sources of stress specific to public services librarians, technical services librarians, and support staff members. (CLB)
Descriptors: Burnout, Job Satisfaction, Library Personnel, Stress Management
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Welch, Robert J. – NASSP Bulletin, 1985
Outlines an innovative district-wide staff development program that improved morale, lessened the teacher burnout rate, and saved the district money. (MD)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Inservice Education, Job Satisfaction, Morale
Billingsley, Bonnie S.; And Others – 1995
A 3-year research and development project examined ways to improve the retention of special education teachers in the Memphis (Tennessee) City Schools. Several individual studies identified sources of dissatisfaction with teaching and the conditions that would encourage career longevity among teachers. Responses from 470 special education and…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Faculty Mobility