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Hutto, Pamela Noel – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2017
Community colleges are under pressure to educate a growing student population while economic resources in higher education are diminishing. One measure of success for colleges is the ability to retain students. Due to the varied nature of the community college population, measuring student retention is challenging. One facet of student retention…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Academic Persistence, Teacher Employment, Correlation
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Johnson, Frank; Cornman, Stephen – National Center for Education Statistics, 2008
This report presents findings from the Pilot Teacher Compensation Survey (TCS), which collected data for school year 2005-2006. This pilot collection is a research and development effort to see if it is possible to collect and publish teacher-level data from the administrative records residing in state departments of education. Seven states…
Descriptors: Teacher Salaries, Research and Development, Public School Teachers, Teaching Experience
Hess, Frederick M.; Loup, Cody – Thomas B. Fordham Institute, 2008
In the era of No Child Left Behind, principals are increasingly held accountable for student performance. But are teacher labor agreements giving them enough flexibility to manage effectively? This study answers this question and others. It examines how much flexibility school leaders enjoy on key dimensions of management in America's fifty…
Descriptors: School Administration, School Districts, School District Size, Contracts
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Johnson, Frank; Cornman, Stephen Q. – National Center for Education Statistics, 2008
The Common Core of Data (CCD) is an annual collection of public elementary and secondary education data administered by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) and its collection agent, the U.S. Census Bureau. Data for CCD surveys are provided by state education agencies (SEAs). This report presents summary data from the Pilot Teacher…
Descriptors: Teacher Salaries, Public School Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers
White, Nancy A. – 1990
An incentive program was developed to reduce teacher absenteeism in a large community high school (2,200 students) in South Florida. The four-point program included improved record-keeping systems, increased communication and information dissemination, internal recognition, and a cash lottery system. Pre- and post-attitudinal tests were…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Costs, Employee Absenteeism, Incentives
Lienemann, William H.; Bullis, Bruce – 1980
Systemwide bargaining in higher education in four states (Florida, Minnesota, New York, Illinois) was studied to determine whether institutions were affected in the manner predicted by previous literature, whether the amounts of influence, or power, of various institutional decision-makers were affected, and whether the viewpoints of respondents…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrators, Collective Bargaining, College Administration