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Haddad, Becky; Milliken, D. Brett; Stewart, Josh; Velez, Jonathan J. – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2021
Complex career decisions, such as teacher mobility, are often reduced to stigmatizing labels that do little to account for the state of teaching as a profession or credit those engaging in migratory decisions as making healthy career choices. Through our study, we focused on understanding workforce mobility, teaching as an unstaged profession, and…
Descriptors: Faculty Mobility, Agriculture Teachers, Career Choice, Teaching (Occupation)
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Darling-Hammond, Linda; Sutcher, Leib; Carver-Thomas, Desiree – Learning Policy Institute, 2018
Teacher shortages have been worsening in California since 2015. Growth in teacher demand as the economy has improved has collided with steep declines in the supply of new teachers, leading to significant increases in the hiring of underprepared teachers, especially in districts serving high-need students. Shortages are most severe in special…
Descriptors: Teacher Shortage, Teacher Supply and Demand, Faculty Mobility, Teacher Competencies
Costrell, Robert M.; Podgursky, Michael – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research, 2009
While it is generally understood that defined benefit pension systems concentrate benefits on career teachers and impose costs on mobile teachers, there has been very little analysis of the magnitude of these effects. The authors develop a measure of implicit redistribution of pension wealth among teachers at varying ages of separation. Compared…
Descriptors: Teacher Retirement, Retirement Benefits, Faculty Mobility, Costs
Hess, Frederick M.; Squire, Juliet P. – American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 2009
The tension at the heart of pension politics is the incentive to satisfy today's claimants in the here-and-now at the expense of long-term concerns. Rules and auditing standards are intended to tame this kind of short-sighted behavior in the private sector. In the public sector, the primary safeguard is the hope that public officials will not be…
Descriptors: Public Sector, Teacher Retirement, Retirement Benefits, Income
Hess, Frederick M.; Squire, Juliet P. – National Center on Performance Incentives, 2009
The tension at the heart of pension politics is the incentive to address today's claimants and focus on the here-and-now at the expense of long-term concerns and more dispersed constituencies. In the private sector, rules and regulations seek to tame corner-cutting and short-sighted behavior. In the public sector, the primary safeguard is the…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Retirement, Public Officials, Labor Market
Phair, Tom S. – 1979
Using personnel data from 106 California community colleges (CCC) and through interviews with officials of 25 representative community college districts, a study was conducted to determine: (1) the total number of certified full-time staff and faculty who separated from employment after the passage of Proposition 13; (2) the subject fields or…
Descriptors: Administrators, College Faculty, Community Colleges, Departments
California State Postsecondary Education Commission, Sacramento. – 1981
Background papers for the California Postsecondary Education Commission's five-year plan (1982-87) are presented. The first paper, "Planning for the Eighties," discusses the need for planning, delineates the essential elements of planning, describes the segmental and statewide planning processes in California, and notes existing barriers…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Collective Bargaining, College Faculty, College Planning