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Amanda Renea Lankford – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Many Head Start programs have closed classrooms due to staff shortages, with up to 30% of teacher positions unfilled. Reducing the elevated teacher turnover rate in Head Start centers is critical to maintaining program effectiveness and controlling costs; however, a limiting factor may be differences in administrators' and teachers' perceptions of…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Social Services, Teacher Shortage, Administrator Attitudes
Xiangyu Zhao; Lieny Jeon – Early Education and Development, 2024
"Research Findings:" Teachers in early care and education (ECE) face tremendous challenges, which can lead to poor well-being, low job satisfaction, and high turnover rates. Thus, it is essential to understand the factors related to job satisfaction as well as the well-being resources that teachers need. The study used multilevel…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Teachers, Job Satisfaction, Work Environment, Well Being
Cathy Grace; Kathy Thornburg; Sheerah Neal Keith; Max Altman; Allison Boyle – Southern Education Foundation, 2024
Head Start programs in many of the states with higher rates of children living in poverty have received less per-child funding allocations than programs in states with lower rates of children living in poverty for years. Further, the educators who teach these children are vastly underpaid, and their pay is also inequitable among states and…
Descriptors: Low Income Students, Federal Programs, Social Services, Resource Allocation
Kendall LaParo; Anna Shaw-Amoah – Research for Action, 2024
This report explores the dramatic increase in Head Start teacher turnover during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using data from the Head Start Program Information Report (PIR) from 2010 to 2022, the study investigates trends in teacher turnover across all Head Start program types and examines the reasons behind teacher departures. The report finds that…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Low Income Students, Social Services, Faculty Mobility