This chapter provides new evidence on educational inequality and reviews the literature on the causes and consequences of unequal education. We document large achievement gaps between children from different socio-economic backgrounds, show how patterns of educational inequality vary across countries, time, and generations, and establish a link…

The purpose of this study was to examine, understand, and interpret the lived experiences of four African American male university presidents. Through phenomenological interviewing (Seidman, 2006), and grounded in critical race methodology (Peoples, 2020), the participants detailed their lived experiences through their respective journeys in…

Teacher retention has been an issue for decades. Education researchers have grappled with this problem and explored how teacher characteristics, school characteristics, and organizational characteristics may predict teachers' decision to stay or leave their school sites. There is significant evidence showing that schools serving a majority of…

Teacher turnover continues to be a significant problem in the United States. Teacher turnover is expensive because it costs money to continue recruiting, hiring, and training new teachers to replace those leaving (Carver-Thomas & Darling-Hammond, 2017). Most important though, teacher turnover hurts student achievement and success (Sorensen…

The internationalisation of higher education has been challenged by the significant decline in international student mobility caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The emergence of internationalisation at a distance before COVID-19 paved a new avenue for the internationalisation of higher education, with the distinctive feature of knowledge mobility…

Stagnating teacher salaries and the widening gap between public school teachers and similar workers have led to growing concerns that teachers will seek additional employment-possibly leading to teacher burnout and/or attrition in the process. Using data from the Schools and Staffing Survey and the National Teacher and Principal Survey from…

Educator labor markets vary considerably across the country and can change quickly during recessions. We use data from the Quality Workforce Indicators (QWI) on educators in Elementary and Secondary Schools from 2000-01 to 2022-23. We demonstrate how to transform the quarter-level data in the QWI to construct valid educator labor market measures.…

In this paper, we entwine sympathetic concepts of liminality and workplace identity to capture processual, agential and emotional elements of transition for established professionals from other sectors taking up academic careers in a digitised UK business school. We undertake interpretative analysis of explicit and latent responses through three…

This paper examines the perspectives of educators on whether internationalisation at a distance (IaD) democratises student mobility in higher education. Adopting a collaborative autoethnographic approach, the analysis focuses on the perspectives of educators involved in virtual mobility practices in relation to three prompts: (1) IaD's capacity…

This quantitative study focuses on Australian mid-career teachers' (MCTs) attrition and profiles those who stayed, left, or returned. The population included 6108 MCTs employed with the Department of Education Western Australia from 2004 to 2014. Findings showed more MCTs stayed, than left, or returned. MCTs who stayed were predominantly male,…

Turnover among teachers has become an escalating issue globally, including in Pakistan, where a severe shortage of qualified teachers characterizes a struggling educational system. To counter the shortage, the government hired a large pool of qualified teachers for schools through a merit-based recruitment drive, but the newly recruited teachers…

This study examined the relationships between teachers' work-leisure conflict, work satisfaction, turnover intention, and task performance. A total of 485 responses collected from school teachers in Singapore were used for data analysis. Results indicated that work-to-leisure conflict negatively influenced work satisfaction and positively…

This study examines the academic impacts of the Choice Neighborhoods Initiative (CNI), a federal public housing revitalization program, focusing on how case management, student mobility, and school compositional change intersect to shape outcomes. Using an eight-year student-level panel (2015-2023), we estimate three-way fixed effects models that…

How we define rurality fundamentally shapes our place-based understanding of the teacher workforce. This study uses the Community Assets and Relative Rurality (CARR) Index--a novel, multidimensional measure of rurality--alongside longitudinal administrative data to examine K-12 teachers in Kansas and Missouri. We find substantial variation in…

This study examines the demographics, qualifications, and turnover of STEM teachers in Kansas and Missouri--two contiguous, predominantly rural states in the Midwestern region of the United States. The existing literature lacks detailed insights regarding U.S. STEM teachers, especially with recent economic and social changes over the COVID-19…