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Goldhaber, Dan; Krieg, John; Naito, Natsumi; Theobald, Roddy – Educational Researcher, 2021
We use a unique dataset of student teaching placements in the State of Washington and a proxy for teacher shortages, the proportion of new teacher hires in a school or district with emergency teaching credentials, to provide the first empirical evidence of a relationship between student teaching placements and teacher shortages. We find that…
Descriptors: Student Teaching, Teacher Shortage, Teacher Distribution, Teacher Placement
Goldhaber, Dan; Brown, Nate; Marcuson, Nathaniel; Theobald, Roddy – Center for Education Data & Research, 2022
We describe the extent and predictors of staffing challenges faced by school districts in Washington state throughout the 2021-22 school year using data collected from job posting websites for districts representing more than 98% of students in the state. These data suggest that school districts in the state faced considerable challenges filling…
Descriptors: School Districts, Employment Opportunities, Job Applicants, Personnel Selection
Theobald, Roddy – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), 2022
Two recent CALDER studies published in "Exceptional Children" provide new evidence about special education teacher preparation and its implications for students with disabilities. The first study (Theobald et al., 2021) shows that special educators who received dual endorsements in special education and another subject had lower rates of…
Descriptors: Special Education Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Students with Disabilities, Teacher Competencies
Goldhaber, Dan; Krieg, John; Liddle, Stephanie; Theobald, Roddy – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), 2023
Nationally, more than 75% of individuals who are credentialed to teach are prepared in traditional college- or university-based teacher education programs (TEPs). But the college and employment pathways that prospective teachers take to TEP enrollment and completion have not been comprehensively examined. A better understanding of how credentialed…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Teacher Qualifications, Teacher Supply and Demand, Credentials
Cowan, James; Goldhaber, Dan; Hayes, Kyle; Theobald, Roddy – Educational Researcher, 2016
Though policymakers are increasingly concerned about teacher shortages in U.S. public schools, the national discussion does not reflect historical patterns of the supply of and demand for newly minted teachers. Specifically, the production of teacher candidates has increased steadily since the mid-1980s, and only about half of graduating teacher…
Descriptors: Teacher Shortage, Public Schools, Teacher Supply and Demand, STEM Education
Goldhaber, Dan; Krieg, John; Theobald, Roddy; Brown, Nate – Phi Delta Kappan, 2016
Improving the quality of the teacher workforce is high on the nation's education policy agenda, but school systems continue to face difficulties in staffing STEM and special education classrooms with qualified teachers. This article documents the mismatch between the supply and demand of STEM and special education teachers in Washington State,…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Special Education Teachers, Teacher Supply and Demand, Barriers
Goldhaber, Dan; Krieg, John; Theobald, Roddy; Brown, Nate – Center for Education Data & Research, 2014
Although the shortage of qualified STEM and Special Education teachers is well documented and often discussed, there has been little improvement in increasing the number of teachers in these subject areas. This policy brief reports on the front-end of the teacher pipeline and shows that in Washington State, like across the country, there has been…
Descriptors: Special Education Teachers, Science Teachers, Teacher Shortage, Teacher Supply and Demand