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Download full textGoldhaber, Dan; Falken, Grace; Theobald, Roddy – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), 2023
Several decades of research using school administrative data show that teacher quality is inequitably distributed across schools. But these estimates may understate teacher-related inequities if they do not account for how teacher vacancies or late hires are distributed across schools. We investigate these hiring issues using data on a direct…
Descriptors: Job Application, Personnel Selection, Equal Education, School Administration
Goldhaber, Dan; Gratz, Trevor – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), 2022
There is much discussion of late about the significant challenges that schools face with hiring staff for the 2021-22 school year and implementing COVID recovery initiatives. Numerous stories report increasing difficulties recruiting and retaining all manner of school personnel, from bus drivers to teachers. Unfortunately, it is challenging to get…
Descriptors: School Districts, Teacher Selection, School Personnel, Personnel Selection
Backes, Ben; Goldhaber, Dan – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), 2023
The onset of the pandemic in spring 2020 substantially disrupted routes into teaching and offered a unique opportunity to study this process with different requirements for initial entry into the classroom. We examine the impacts of the Temporary Certificate of Eligibility (Temporary CE), which allowed teacher candidates in New Jersey to enter the…
Descriptors: Teacher Certification, Accountability, Teacher Background, Teacher Persistence
School District Staffing Challenges in a Rapidly Recovering Economy. CEDR Flash Brief No. 11082021-1
Direct linkGoldhaber, Dan; Gratz, Trevor – Center for Education Data & Research, 2021
There is much discussion of late about the significant challenges that schools face with hiring staff for the 2021-22 school year and implementing COVID recovery initiatives. Despite some media reports of teachers and principals leaving the workforce because of COVID, there is evidence that retention rates remain consistent with pre-pandemic…
Descriptors: School Districts, Teacher Selection, School Personnel, Personnel Selection
Goldhaber, Dan; Grout, Cyrus; Wolff, Malcolm – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), 2022
Most research about how to improve the teacher workforce has focused on interventions designed to improve incumbent teachers, far less attention has been directed toward teacher hiring processes and whether districts can make better hiring decisions. Using data from Spokane Public Schools and Washington state, we describe the findings from a study…
Descriptors: Teacher Employment, Teacher Recruitment, Job Applicants, Social Networks
Goldhaber, Dan; Brown, Nate; Marcuson, Nathaniel; Theobald, Roddy – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), 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, Recruitment, Personnel Selection
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
Goldhaber, Dan; Holden, Kristian; Chen, Bingjie – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), 2019
Principals are widely seen as a key influence on the educational environment of schools, and nearly all principals have experience as teachers. Yet there is no evidence on whether we can predict the effectiveness of principals (as measured by their value added) based on their value added as teachers, an issue we explore using administrative data…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Administrator Effectiveness, Principals, Teacher Promotion
Gross, Betheny; DeArmond, Michael; Goldhaber, Dan – Center on Reinventing Public Education, 2010
Education reformers routinely call on school districts to stop hiring teachers based on seniority, which they argue interferes with effective staffing, especially in disadvantaged schools. The few researchers who have empirically studied the issue, however, disagree about whether seniority-based hiring is systematically associated with staffing…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Disadvantaged Schools, Teacher Persistence, Personnel Selection
