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Han, Grace; Doyle, Daniela – Center on Great Teachers and Leaders, 2013
Teacher residency programs are a relatively new method for building stronger teacher pipelines. Research assessing the impact of these programs is still limited, but some early reports suggest that residency programs hold promise for improving teacher effectiveness and retention rates (Barrett, Hovde, Hahn, & Rosqueta, 2011; Papay, West,…
Descriptors: Alternative Teacher Certification, Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Persistence, Benchmarking
Muller, Eve – National Center to Improve Recruitment and Retention of Qualified Personnel for Children with Disabilities, 2011
Critical to any comprehensive plan for addressing personnel shortages in the field of special education is the gathering of data on supply and demand at the state and local education agency (LEA) levels. Many states now conduct regular supply and demand studies in order to inform decisions regarding the recruitment, preparation and retention of…
Descriptors: Personnel Needs, Teacher Supply and Demand, Disabilities, School Districts
Barnes, Gary; Crowe, Edward: Schaefer, Benjamin – National Commission on Teaching and America's Future, 2007
In this paper, we report the results of a pilot study of the cost of teacher turnover in five school districts. We examine the rate of turnover, the relationship between turnover and teacher and school characteristics, and the costs associated with recruiting, hiring, and training replacement teachers. We find evidence that turnover costs,…
Descriptors: Public School Teachers, Teacher Persistence, Labor Turnover, Costs
Theobald, Neil D.; Michael, Robert S. – 2001
This study explored how many teachers were leaving public school districts in Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, and Wisconsin during their first 5 years in teaching. Researchers analyzed four types of novice teachers, including those who: taught continuously in the same district all 5 years, transferred to another district within the state but…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Beginning Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education, Faculty Mobility
Hare, Debra; Heap, James L. – 2001
In fall 2000, all 3,506 superintendents in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin received a survey that asked them to report on the strategies they had implemented to attract and retain teachers and on how effective those strategies had been. The survey was designed to collect basic information about a variety of…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education, Faculty Recruitment, Labor Turnover