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Han, Eunice S.; Keefe, Jeffrey – Educational Policy, 2022
This research investigates whether teachers' unions influence student academic achievement in Southern states that prohibit collective bargaining. Our data are from the School and Staffing Survey and the Stanford Education Data Archive. We measure the strength of teachers' unions by union membership rate and meet-and-confer status of a district…
Descriptors: Unions, Teacher Persistence, Academic Achievement, Collective Bargaining
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Ray Barbosa Jr.; Betty Coneway – School Leadership Review, 2023
The study aimed to address rural school principals with unique challenges and responsibilities who have the critical task of attracting and retaining skilled teachers. These schools often face challenges in hiring and keeping quality teachers due to their remote locations, low salaries, and additional workloads. The research focused on identifying…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Principals, Best Practices, Barriers
Sarah Critton – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Teacher attrition continues to be a major issue in public education today. Keeping schools staffed with quality teachers is a struggle across the United States. Hard to staff, low-income schools see the highest attrition rates among public schools. This phenomenological qualitative study explored teachers' experiences with the Teacher Incentive…
Descriptors: Incentives, Faculty Mobility, Teacher Persistence, Teacher Motivation
Hunt, Hali – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Teacher turnover jeopardizes school effectiveness and contributes to teacher shortages directly impacting student learning. The problem addressed by this study was the negative impact of turnover in Texas Fast Growth School Coalition Districts' newly hired teachers. The purpose of this quantitative correlational study aimed to analyze the…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Beginning Teacher Induction, Socialization
Education Trust, 2022
While the majority of U.S students are children of color, only 20% of teachers are people of color. What's more, 40% of the nation's public schools do not have a single teacher of color on record. Research shows that all students, regardless of race or ethnicity, benefit socially, emotionally, and academically from a diverse teacher workforce.…
Descriptors: Minority Group Teachers, Diversity (Faculty), Public Schools, Labor Force Development
Colby Self – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Educator shortages have become a reality in public education, and, while research has documented reasons teachers leave the profession, there has been limited research into why teachers choose to stay. The purpose of this study was to identify factors that keep teachers who serve in Title I schools in the profession to their mid-career (10-15…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Females, Experienced Teachers, Public School Teachers
Morgan E. Rasmus – ProQuest LLC, 2022
In Texas, Black women educators are underrepresented among teachers relative to students. Thus, reminding us that there are opportunities available for improving the challenges around racial and ethnic diversity within the teacher workforce (Raise Your Hand Texas Report, 2021) at both the recruitment and retention phases. While in recent years,…
Descriptors: African American Teachers, Females, Disproportionate Representation, Diversity (Faculty)
Raul Alvarez Jr. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Career and Technical Education (CTE) has proven itself through substantial research, to provide a positive impact on the U.S. economy and the job market in its college and career preparedness of high school students. However, the ability of school districts in retaining competent CTE teachers is not as reassuring. The progressive years for any…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Teacher Participation, Teacher Persistence, Vocational Education Teachers
Kara A. Clark – ProQuest LLC, 2020
An East Texas Independent School District has a historically high teacher turnover rate that has been consistently higher than the state's and the regional service center's rates for the past ten years. The school district serves a rural community in northeast Texas with a low socioeconomic and predominantly white student body population. This…
Descriptors: Teacher Persistence, Teachers, Decision Making, Job Applicants
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Scott, Lawrence; Kearney, W. Sean; Krimbill, Elisabeth; Hinojosa, Nicholas – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2023
This article presents a mixed method study utilizing teacher and student demographic and student attendance data from seven hundred and two public schools in central Texas along with follow-up qualitative data gathered through semi-structured interviews conducted with the top 1% of principals identified as having the most diverse group of faculty…
Descriptors: Principals, Teachers, Students, Public Schools
John Christopher Ratcliff – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Early career teachers are leaving the profession at high rates, causing teacher shortages, reducing student achievement, and creating a negative school culture that undermines academic success (Darling-Hammond & Podolsky, 2017). Addressing this problem is imperative to improving student outcomes and fostering a positive school environment.…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Teacher Persistence, Rural Education, Rural Schools
Arismendi, Jennifer – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Due to the current shortage of special education teachers and the rising concerns over attrition and retention, it is important to understand what is contributing to teacher burnout and self-efficacy. This purpose of this quantitative, non-experimental, cross-sectional, predictive study was to determine if there was a predictive relationship…
Descriptors: Special Education Teachers, Urban Schools, Teacher Burnout, Self Efficacy
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Krimbill, Elisabeth; Kearney, Wowek S.; Scott, Lawrence – School Leadership Review, 2022
This paper presents a mixed method study examining the relationship between teacher advanced degree attainment and student achievement. This study utilizes teacher demographic data along with standardized test scores from 702 public schools in south central Texas. First, OLS regression analyses were employed to measure the relationship between the…
Descriptors: Teacher Recruitment, Teacher Persistence, Masters Degrees, Educational Attainment
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Ryan Saunders; Julie Fitz; Michael A. DiNapoli Jr.; Tara Kini – Learning Policy Institute, 2024
As school systems work to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, states continue to grapple with persistent teacher shortages, a lack of teachers of color in the workforce, and high turnover rates undermining recruitment efforts. Teachers' effectiveness and their likelihood of staying in teaching are strongly influenced by the quality of preparation…
Descriptors: State Policy, Federal Legislation, Teacher Education, Teacher Education Programs
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Cormier, Christopher J. – Educational Forum, 2023
For years, policymakers, districts, and scholars have pushed for the inclusion of more Black male teachers in US public schools; however, their even smaller subset--Black male special education teachers--has been ignored, particularly by scholars. The results of this study provide insight into the recruitment and retention of Black male special…
Descriptors: Special Education, Special Education Teachers, Males, Blacks
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