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Direct linkSteiner, Elizabeth D.; Woo, Ashley; Suryavanshi, Aarya; Redding, Christopher – RAND Corporation, 2023
Teacher morale declined over the course of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, highlighting the importance of the quality of the workplace conditions that teachers experience and how those conditions might influence well-being and retention. In response to widespread concerns about teacher shortages, many states are focusing on…
Descriptors: Teaching Conditions, Well Being, Geographic Location, Teacher Attitudes
Steiner, Elizabeth D.; Woo, Ashley; Suryavanshi, Aarya; Redding, Christopher – RAND Corporation, 2023
Teacher morale declined during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, and teachers reported worse wellbeing than other working adults. Interventions to restore teacher well-being could improve job performance, job satisfaction, engagement, and retention. Although it is known that working conditions are related to well-being among other teachers…
Descriptors: Teaching Conditions, Well Being, Geographic Location, Teacher Attitudes
Download full textTNTP, 2014
Nobody goes into teaching to get rich, but that's no excuse not to pay teachers as professionals. Compensation is one of the most important factors in determining who enters the teaching profession and how long they stay--yet 90 percent of all U.S. school districts pay teachers without any regard for their actual performance with students,…
Descriptors: Teacher Salaries, Compensation (Remuneration), School Districts, Teacher Competencies
Yuan, Kun; Le, Vi-Nhuan; McCaffrey, Daniel F.; Marsh, Julie A.; Hamilton, Laura S.; Stecher, Brian M.; Springer, Matthew G. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2013
This study drew on teacher survey responses from randomized experiments exploring three different pay-for-performance programs to examine the extent to which these programs motivated teachers to improve student achievement and the impact of such programs on teachers' instruction, number of hours worked, job stress, and collegiality. Results showed…
Descriptors: Teacher Surveys, Merit Pay, Teacher Motivation, Academic Achievement
Burris, Carol Corbett; Welner, Kevin G. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2011
The authors detail their summer long pointed discussion with the Obama Administration--via an exchange of letters and telephone conversations--over initiatives in New York and other states that tie the evaluations of teachers and principals to student performance on standardized tests. The authors assert such initiatives should await further…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, Academic Achievement, Accountability, Performance Based Assessment
Title, David – 1989
This paper discusses a variety of incentives that can make a difference in attracting and retaining high quality teachers. These incentives include salaries, retirement benefits, working conditions, quality of life, tenure and seniority rights, and sick leave. The states in the Northeast vary considerably in their ability to attract quality…
Descriptors: Faculty Mobility, Incentives, Life Style, Policy Formation
