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Ashley Ellison; Thomas Smith – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2024
Background/Context: School districts across the United States face persistent difficulties recruiting and retaining teachers (GarcĂ­a & Weiss, 2019; Schmitt & deCourcy, 2022). Over the last decade, every state in the south has faced a growing teacher shortage, with some facing shortages in all grades and subjects (U.S. Department of…
Descriptors: High School Students, Career Choice, Teacher Shortage, Teacher Recruitment
Dougherty, Chrys; Fleming, Steve – ACT, Inc., 2012
This report focused on the extent to which students who are academically far off track in preparing for college can catch up in four years. We studied multiple cohorts of students in eighth grade whose EXPLORE[R] scores were more than one standard deviation below the EXPLORE benchmark scores associated with being on track. We found that 10 percent…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Readiness, Poverty, Educational Practices