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Education Trust, 2022
Research says that teacher diversity benefits all students, regardless of race or Ethnicity. However, while the majority of students in the U.S. are of color, only about 20% of teachers are of color. Increasing the racial and cultural diversity of the teacher workforce takes a statewide commitment to collecting and analyzing educator workforce…
Descriptors: Teacher Characteristics, Diversity (Faculty), Experienced Teachers, Minority Group Teachers
Reyes, Pedro; Marder, Michael; Alexander, Celeste; Solis Rodriguez, Janet; Rhodes, Annelies – Texas Education Research Center, 2022
Little is known about differences between traditional, university-based certification programs and alternative certification programs in terms of outcomes for students and teachers. Across all preparation pathways, however, too many early career teachers leave the field (over 40% within first five years). This attrition problem is likely to grow…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Alternative Teacher Certification, Outcomes of Education, Faculty Mobility
Morgan, Bobbette M.; Rodriquez, Alma D.; Jones, Irma; Telez, James; Musanti, Sandra – Journal of Curriculum and Teaching, 2020
This study contributes to the literature on first year teachers by identifying complexities and struggles of becoming a teacher and the implications of district-university partnerships to strengthen our educator preparation program. The importance of partnerships with stakeholders, memorandum of agreements to share data, observations of first year…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, College School Cooperation, Partnerships in Education, Teacher Education Programs
Bland, Jennifer A.; Wojcikiewicz, Steven K.; Darling-Hammond, Linda; Wei, Wesley – Learning Policy Institute, 2023
Systemic challenges for the Texas teacher workforce result from a large yearly demand for new teachers, exacerbated by high and climbing teacher attrition rates. As a result of these challenges, a large majority of new teachers are now hired before they complete preparation. Assigned disproportionately to students from low-income families and…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Career Pathways, Teacher Shortage, Teacher Persistence
Moore, LaSonya; Rosenblatt, Kara; Badgett, Kevin; Eldridge, James – Online Submission, 2018
Teacher turnover in urban high-poverty schools is detrimental to students' achievement. In fact, one of the most prevalent social justice issues today is the unequal distribution of experienced teachers to urban high-poverty schools. Researchers suggest that experienced teachers are more effective at raising student performance than new or early…
Descriptors: Urban Teaching, Teacher Persistence, Tenure, Beginning Teachers
Marchand, Joseph; Weber, Jeremy G. – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2020
Whether improved local economic conditions lead to better student outcomes is theoretically ambiguous and will depend on how schools use additional revenues and how students and teachers respond to rising private sector wages. The Texas boom in shale oil and gas drilling, with its large and localized effects on wages and the tax base, provides a…
Descriptors: Economic Impact, Fuels, Natural Resources, School Districts
Stoker, Ginger – Texas Education Research Center, 2018
Teach for America (TFA) is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to enlist, develop, and mobilize as many as possible of the nation's most promising future leaders to grow and strengthen the movement for educational equity and excellence. After completing their two-year assignment, TFA teachers are encouraged to remain in the teaching…
Descriptors: Teacher Recruitment, Alternative Teacher Certification, Beginning Teachers, Teacher Persistence
Naslund, Karlerik; Ponomariov, Branco – Management in Education, 2019
Using data on charter and public school districts in Texas, we test the hypothesis that the labor practices in charter schools, in particular their ability to easily dismiss poorly performing teachers, diminishes the negative effect of teacher turnover on student achievement and graduation rates in comparison to public schools. We find some…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Teacher Persistence, Faculty Development, Academic Achievement
Bland, Jennifer A.; Wojcikiewicz, Steven K.; Darling-Hammond, Linda; Wei, Wesley – Learning Policy Institute, 2023
This report summarizes teacher workforce challenges and recent initiatives in Texas that are shaping the state of the educator workforce in important ways. Ongoing teacher shortages have led to the creation of a wide range of pathways into the profession, featuring varying types and amounts of training. A growing body of research demonstrates that…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Career Pathways, Teacher Shortage, Teacher Persistence
Texas Comprehensive Center, 2017
The Rural Schools Task Force (RSTF) was formed at the request of Commissioner of Education, Mike Morath, to identify current challenges and best practices for rural school districts statewide and develop recommendations for the Texas Education Agency (TEA) that would support rural schools and districts in overcoming obstacles and meeting the needs…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Small Schools, Teacher Recruitment, Teacher Persistence
Onyeneke, James C. E. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Research Focus: The purpose of this study was to explore the role that mentoring played in the professional development of minority faculty in the Texas State higher education system. Research Methods: A phenomenological qualitative research design was employed for this study. Data was collected using open ended in-depth interviews with eight…
Descriptors: Mentors, Faculty Development, College Faculty, Minority Group Teachers
Kennedy, Barbara – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2020
This article explores how stakeholders in one Texas school district perceive, experience, and respond to the Spanish bilingual teacher shortage. Interview data from a qualitative case study contributes to the article's vivid portrayal of the teacher shortage and its impact on the elementary education of bilingual Latino school children in Texas.…
Descriptors: Bilingual Teachers, Spanish Speaking, Teacher Shortage, Teacher Persistence
Van Overschelde, James P.; Wiggins, Afi Y. – Action in Teacher Education, 2020
A comparison of population and employment projections shows the gap between teacher supply and demand growing through 2025. Alternative certification programs (ACPs) were created to increase teacher production, but research on who selects ACPs versus traditional preparation programs (TPPs) shows mixed results as does research on new teacher…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Alternative Teacher Certification, Teacher Persistence, Faculty Mobility
Holme, Jennifer Jellison; Jabbar, Huriya; Germain, Emily; Dinning, John – Educational Researcher, 2018
While there is a robust literature examining the patterns and causes of teacher turnover, few articles to date have critically examined the measures of turnover used in these studies. Yet, an assessment of the way turnover is measured is important, as the measures become the means by which the "problem" of turnover becomes defined and…
Descriptors: Labor Turnover, Teacher Persistence, Educational Policy, Teacher Supply and Demand
Esparza, Edith; Sarmiento, Matilde; Geneser, Vivien; Harris, Shelley – Education Quarterly Reviews, 2019
In this research, a university professor examined the university path and ultimate career trajectory of eleven Bilingual Education pre-service teachers in a South Texas university, which serves an underrepresented population. The study followed the set of the eleven participants who began their academic journey to become Bilingual certified…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Beginning Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Bilingual Education