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Direct linkOECD Publishing (NJ1), 2011
The future of Greece's well-being will depend on improving educational performance to boost productivity and improve social outcomes. In the current economic context, with the need to get best value for spending, Greece must and can address inefficiencies in its education system. The challenges are significant. For example, Greece lags behind many…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy
Download full textTennessee Department of Education, 2005
The school systems of Tennessee are continuing to make efforts to recruit and retain African-American and other minority teachers. As school systems in the state become more and more diverse, these efforts must increase. The number of classroom teachers with 30+ years of experience further emphasizes the accelerated need to establish and implement…
Descriptors: African Americans, Labor Turnover, Teacher Recruitment, Minority Group Teachers
Regional Laboratory for Educational Improvement of the Northeast & Islands, Andover, MA. – 1988
This collection of articles gathers reprinted materials on teacher attraction and retention for small and rural school districts. The material is organized in two sections: (1) Attracting and Retaining Quality Teachers and (2) Challenging and Enriching Current Staff. Reprints from a number of publications present strategies for addressing the…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Merit Pay, Teacher Employment, Teacher Morale
Selove, Rebecca – 1984
The first of two questions investigated in this paper concerns the relationships among three measures of teachers' expectations: that their students can succeed, that they can be successful as teachers, and that they can influence what happens in their classrooms and schools. The second question involves relationships between these three types of…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Elementary Education, Interprofessional Relationship, Participative Decision Making
Tennessee State Board of Education, 2005
In 1987, the State Board of Education cited a shortage of minority teachers in Tennessee. In 1988, The Tennessee Task Force on the Supply of Minority Teachers issued several recommendations--most of which were implemented--to increase the number of minority teachers. In 1989, House Joint Resolution 36 also requested an annual report on the status…
Descriptors: Teacher Recruitment, Elementary Secondary Education, School Districts, African American Teachers
Gilbert, Eben N., Jr. – 1992
A study assessed the perceived effectiveness of cognitive theories of motivation on correctional educators in Tennessee in facilitating teacher attitude and performance as compared to noncognitive models. The Performance Motivation Questionnaire obtained demographic information and responses to items on motivational concepts and practices.…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Correctional Education
Kershaw, C.; And Others – 1994
A team of researchers from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville is in its tenth year of working with individual schools to improve the quality of life within educational communities. This paper reports on the current Quality of School Life (QSL) study conducted to assess teachers' perceived levels of satisfaction with the quality of their…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Demography, Educational Research, Elementary School Teachers
Grissom, Joyce Y.; Reddick, Thomas L. – 1976
A state-wide survey based on a representative sampling of members of the 89th General Assembly was conducted to explore attitudes concerning the quality of education in Tennessee. Areas covered by the survey included the attitudes of the General Assembly members toward teachers, teachers' salaries, and age of retirement. The survey was designed…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Attitudes, Boards of Education, Educational Administration
Peer reviewedRosenholtz, Susan J.; Simpson, Carl – Sociology of Education, 1990
Examines 1,213 Tennessee elementary teachers' responses to 6 organizational indexes to determine effects of school organization and administrative support on teacher commitment. Finds novices needed organizational support for behavioral management and boundary tasks, midcareer teachers needed autonomy and empowerment, whereas veterans' commitment…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Cohort Analysis
