Teacher retention has been an issue for many years, especially at private schools in the United States (McCreight, 2000). The purpose of this study was to explore job satisfaction and organizational commitment of private school teachers, which can give administrators more information and keys to retaining teachers. The study contacted 71 schools…

This study investigated the factors influencing retention among Catholic private school teachers in the Pacific Northwest, focusing on motivational and external elements. Employing a mixed-methods approach, including surveys and interviews with five teachers, I delved into the impact of intrinsic motivators like leadership and school culture as…

This study intended to investigate the perceptions of faculty of color to understand why they chose to teach in independent schools. For this research, faculty of color is defined as participants who self-identify as African American, Latinx, and Asian/Middle Eastern, representing an underrepresented minority group within the school. Beyond the…

This report presents selected findings from the Current Teacher and Former Teacher questionnaires of the 2021-22 Teacher Follow-up Survey (TFS). The TFS is a longitudinal component of the National Teacher and Principal Survey (NTPS), which is a nationally representative survey of public and private K-12 schools, principals, and teachers in the 50…

The current study has reported perceptions from teachers who taught in a private school in China about factors regarding their retention decisions. Teacher attrition has been a global issue shared by many countries and areas. Teacher attrition has caused intensive discussion in the United States, the United Kingdom, as well as in China, from…

Teacher job satisfaction is the degree to which employees like or dislike their profession; they are satisfied when they have positive attitudes and feelings towards their job. Many studies were conducted in developing and developed countries, but unfortunately, studies focusing on teacher job satisfaction in the Afghan context are very limited.…

This report presents selected findings from the 2021-22 Principal Follow-up Survey (PFS). The PFS is a longitudinal component of the National Teacher and Principal Survey (NTPS), which is a nationally representative survey of public and private K-12 schools, principals, and teachers in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. The National…

This report presents selected findings from the 2021-22 Principal Follow-up Survey (PFS). The PFS is a longitudinal component of the National Teacher and Principal Survey (NTPS), which is a nationally representative survey of public and private K-12 schools, principals, and teachers in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. The National…

In order to address the paucity of research on Chinese teachers and to foreground their 'Other (ed)' ways of knowing and experiencing, this paper draws on interviews with 15 host country Chinese teachers from three internationalised schools in China. Specifically, this paper explores the participants' pathways into internationalised schooling.…

This study examines the impact of private schools' Cheap Labour Method (CLM) on the efficiency of secondary school education in Ilorin Metropolis, Data and information were obtained from respondents through questionnaires which were analyzed with the use of a percentage method .The findings of this study reveal that majority of the private school…

This research aimed to determine the differences in job satisfaction factors in Secondary Education teachers of public and private educational institutions, La Libertad Region, Peru 2020. It presents a quantitative approach, non-experimental design, comparative descriptive type; 372 teachers participated in the study. A questionnaire validated by…

The report, which covers 41 education systems, provides a comparative overview on statutory minimum and maximum salaries and allowances for teachers and school heads in pre-primary, primary and secondary public schools. The impact of school size on head teachers' salaries is also examined. The analysis is combined with national sheets illustrating…

In this instrumental case study, I investigated the factors leading to school administrators' high attrition rates at a small private Christian school in central California. Across the United States, only 35% of public school K-12 administrators had been at their school for more than two years as of 2019 (Levin & Bradley, 2019). According to…

A mixed-methods sequential explanatory study was conducted in Indonesia to measure levels of job satisfaction among 326 secondary school English-as-a-Foreign-Language (EFL) teachers before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. The aim was to identify significant differences in relation to gender, career stage, school location, school status, and…

Underlying the teaching vocation is a moral calling to engage in productive change in the lives of students. Teachers must be motivated to teach and must believe that they can change the lives of their students. In contexts with limited resources and low remuneration, such as Cambodia, teachers are often not motivated to teach and do not believe…