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Richards, Meredith P.; Stroub, Kori J.; Guthery, Sarah – AERA Open, 2020
Recent scholarship has highlighted the phenomenon of urban public school closures and their effects on student academic outcomes. However, we know little about the broader impact of closures, particularly on teachers who are also displaced by closure. We assess labor market outcomes for over 15,000 teachers in nearly 700 Texas schools displaced by…
Descriptors: School Closing, Labor Market, Faculty Mobility, Teacher Persistence
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Rooks, Daisy – Journal of Research in Rural Education, 2018
To understand the social experiences of rural teachers recruited by cohort-based alternative pathway programs in the United States, I interviewed 17 rural teachers recruited by Teach For America (TFA). While many new rural teachers experience social isolation early in their careers when teaching in communities in which they did not grow up, these…
Descriptors: Teacher Persistence, Rural Schools, Rural Education, Teacher Recruitment
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Bartanen, Brendan; Kwok, Andrew – American Educational Research Journal, 2023
Strengthening teacher supply is a key policy objective for K-12 public education, but understanding of the early teacher pipeline remains limited. In this descriptive analysis, we leverage the universe of applications to a large public university in Texas from 2009 to 2020 to examine the pipeline into teacher education and employment as a K-12…
Descriptors: Teacher Supply and Demand, Teacher Education Programs, Teacher Persistence, Teacher Certification
Marie Elizabeth Olivarez – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Educational reform and the development of performance measure policies have remained a continuous debate throughout the past several decades. These accountability policies and increased performance standards can have a significant effect on teacher practice and student outcomes. Policy initiatives have now shifted the definition of teacher quality…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Teaching Methods, Educational Practices, Accountability
LaShonda Y. Willis – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Classrooms across America have become increasingly racially and ethnically diverse. Little attention has been paid to where minority teachers tend to be employed, what happens to minority teachers once they are employed, and to the role of the employing organizations in teacher staffing problems. The purpose of this quantitative comparative study…
Descriptors: Minority Group Teachers, Teacher Recruitment, Teacher Persistence, Teacher Attitudes
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Moser, Eric M.; McKim, Aaron J. – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2020
The sustained shortage of school-based agricultural educators necessitates novel research into variables impacting teacher career commitment. In the current study, a previously unexplored variable in the prediction of career commitment within school-based agricultural education was considered, teacher connectivity. Four elements of teacher…
Descriptors: Teacher Persistence, Faculty Mobility, Agricultural Education, Teacher Shortage
Sandra Yvette Cabrera – ProQuest LLC, 2020
The current study has gathered responses from teachers employed by a South TexasCharter school network regarding teacher retention factors. The United States Department of Education published an extensive list of teacher shortage areas every year. Schools struggle with the retention and attrition of qualified teachers as student enrollment…
Descriptors: Teacher Persistence, Charter Schools, Teacher Shortage, Faculty Mobility
Esquivel, Amy – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This phenomenological case study examined factors such as academic support, administrative support, resource support, and social-emotional support, influencing middle school mathematics and science teacher retention in middle schools with high retention rates in a South Texas public school district as perceived by educators working in the same…
Descriptors: Mathematics Teachers, Science Teachers, Middle School Teachers, Public School Teachers
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Guthery, Sarah; Bailes, Lauren P. – Journal of Educational Administration, 2022
Purpose: Hiring teachers is among principals' most critical work but what remains uncertain is the relationship between a principal's tenure in a school and the rate at which they hire teachers who will stay. Teacher retention and principal experience are key predictors of school stability. This study therefore investigates the influence of…
Descriptors: Principals, Faculty Mobility, Teacher Administrator Relationship, Teacher Selection
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Marder, Michael; Horn, Catherine; Stephens, Sarah; Rhodes, Annelies – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2022
The shortage of secondary STEM teachers has led to periodic calls over the past four decades for federal intervention. For more than 15 years, the National Science Foundation Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program has constituted the most important response at the national level to these calls. The main activity is direct support to…
Descriptors: Scholarships, STEM Education, Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers
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Warsame, Kitty; Valles, James – Journal of Teacher Education and Educators, 2018
Teachers are leaving the profession at alarming rates. As a result, retaining novice teachers has become a major concern for policy makers, school districts, administrators, and teaching staff throughout the United States. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of novice teacher induction support structures in a southwestern…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Teacher Persistence, Beginning Teacher Induction, Program Effectiveness
Sylvester, Arthur Tyrone – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This qualitative descriptive study explored what human resource leaders understood to be high-impact practices in the acquisition, development, and retention of quality teaching talent for nonurban public school districts in Texas. This study answered three research questions that included what human resource leaders identify as high-impact…
Descriptors: Human Resources, Administrator Attitudes, Teacher Recruitment, Faculty Development
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Marder, Michael; David, Bernard; Hamrock, Caitlin – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2020
Texas provides a unique opportunity to examine teachers without standard university preparation, for it prepares more teachers through alternative pathways than any other state. We find two advantages for mathematics and science teachers prepared in the standard way. First, since 2008 they have been staying in the classroom longer than those who…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Alternative Teacher Certification, STEM Education
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Li, Yibing; Garland, Marshall; Kilborn, Mitchell – Regional Educational Laboratory Southwest, 2022
The School Improvement Division of the Texas Education Agency (TEA) identifies, monitors, and supports low-performing schools. To identify low-performing schools, TEA assigns annual academic accountability ratings to its districts and schools, but these ratings are provided only once per year and are vulnerable to disruptions in the assessment…
Descriptors: Accountability, Low Achievement, Educational Indicators, Student Behavior
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Regional Educational Laboratory Southwest, 2022
The School Improvement Division of the Texas Education Agency (TEA) identifies, monitors, and supports low-performing schools. To identify low-performing schools, TEA assigns annual academic accountability ratings to its districts and schools, but these ratings are provided only once per year and are vulnerable to disruptions in the assessment…
Descriptors: Accountability, Low Achievement, Educational Indicators, Student Behavior
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