Facing the persistent challenge of educator turnover in U.S. public school systems, the Kansas Teacher Retention Initiative (KTRI) has been relaunched to delve into the current state of the Kansas educator experience. Building on insights from the inaugural 2021 KTRI study launched in the summer of 2021 in response to a growing teacher shortage,…

The "Teaching, School, and Principal Leadership Practices Survey" (TSP) was developed to give schools robust data about key practices that research has shown are worth paying attention to because of their direct and indirect effects on student learning. Drawing the data together from all participants schools in any given year creates a…

Providing feedback to students in a sustainable way represents a perennial challenge for secondary teachers of writing. Employing artificial intelligence (AI) tools to give students personalized and immediate feedback holds great promise. Project Topeka offered middle school teachers pre-curated teaching materials, foundational texts and videos,…

A growing educator shortage is having significant impacts in schools and communities throughout the United States. In response to this growing concern, the Kansas Teacher Retention Initiative was launched in the summer of 2021, with a focus on measuring, understanding, interpreting, and disseminating data-driven insights regarding the driving…

The 2020-21 National Teacher and Principal Survey (NTPS) is a nationally representative sample survey of public and private K-12 schools, principals, and teachers in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. NTPS collects data on core topics including teacher and principal preparation, classes taught, school characteristics, and demographics of…

This report provides empirical evidence about specific trends in faculty staffing, roles, and responsibilities at smaller private liberal arts institutions in the United States, with a focus on the more than 600 four-year colleges and universities that are members of the Council of Independent Colleges. It also addresses how the changing…

The concept of growth mindset--the belief that intelligence can be developed through effort--has gained considerable attention in K-12 education in recent years. To learn more about educators' experiences and views regarding growth mindset, the Education Week Research Center developed an original survey and administered it to a national sample of…

Plainly, part-time/adjunct faculty members now play a vital role in educating the nation's college students. Even so, the data and research on part-time/adjunct faculty members have tended to be pretty spotty. This survey, conducted by Hart Research Associates on behalf of the American Federation of Teachers, is one of the first nationwide…

This report addresses some questions about the role of college faculty in distance education in the fall term of 1998 using data from the 1999 National Study of Postsecondary Faculty (NSOPF:99) for 960 institutions and 28,704 faculty members. In NSOPF:99, instructional faculty and staff at two- and four-year institutions were asked questions about…

A study was conducted to investigate the relationship between the occupational and educational experiences of community college faculty and their role expectations; the relationship between faculty reference group identity and role expectations; and the differences in the faculty role expectations held by students, administrators, and faculty. A…

This 1985 Educator Opinion Poll was designed to obtain accurate data on the status, experience, and range of views held by public school teachers. The status and experience questions covered such topics as current class size, number of years of teaching experience, annual salary, eligibility for merit pay, education, professional affiliations, and…

Presents 10 tables of questionnaire responses from approximately 4,500 teachers in England, the United States, Japan, Singapore, and West Germany covering personal characteristics, teaching experience and qualifications, roles and responsibilities, school characteristics, job satisfaction and other work attitudes, teaching conditions and their…

This report presents estimates of the proportion of teachers who use a wide range of teaching practices, including those frequently recommended in curriculum and teaching standards and those that have traditionally been part of teachers' practice. The report analyzes data from the 1994-95 Teacher Follow-up Survey, which administered a series of…

Because of the central role of teachers in quality elementary and secondary education, this booklet briefly outlines the condition of public school teachers and how aspects of it have changed in the 10 years since "A Nation at Risk" was published. In short sections illustrated by tables and figures using data from various national…

Results of the fourth annual survey of over 5,000 college faculty in all types of higher education institutions are reported. The information gathered is organized in eight categories: the goals of collegiate education; academic standards; attitudes about student life; teaching, research, and service; the status of the profession; views of the…