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Download full textGoldhaber, Dan; Brown, Nate; Marcuson, Nathaniel; Theobald, Roddy – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), 2022
We describe the extent and predictors of staffing challenges faced by school districts in Washington state throughout the 2021-22 school year using data collected from job posting websites for districts representing more than 98% of students in the state. These data suggest that school districts in the state faced considerable challenges filling…
Descriptors: School Districts, Employment Opportunities, Recruitment, Personnel Selection
Dan Goldhaber; Cyrus Grout – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), 2024
Professional references are widely used in hiring decisions, yet their effectiveness remains largely understudied. This study analyzes structured ratings collected from the professional references of teacher applicants and conduct an experiment to see whether the ratings influence hiring managers' assessments of applicants and hiring decisions.…
Descriptors: Personnel Selection, Job Applicants, Teacher Employment, Teacher Recruitment
Goldhaber, Dan; Grout, Cyrus; Wolff, Malcolm – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), 2022
Most research about how to improve the teacher workforce has focused on interventions designed to improve incumbent teachers, far less attention has been directed toward teacher hiring processes and whether districts can make better hiring decisions. Using data from Spokane Public Schools and Washington state, we describe the findings from a study…
Descriptors: Teacher Employment, Teacher Recruitment, Job Applicants, Social Networks
Direct linkGoldhaber, Dan; Brown, Nate; Marcuson, Nathaniel; Theobald, Roddy – Center for Education Data & Research, 2022
We describe the extent and predictors of staffing challenges faced by school districts in Washington state throughout the 2021-22 school year using data collected from job posting websites for districts representing more than 98% of students in the state. These data suggest that school districts in the state faced considerable challenges filling…
Descriptors: School Districts, Employment Opportunities, Job Applicants, Personnel Selection
Wakelee, Daniel – Metropolitan Universities, 2010
Hiring tenure-track faculty is an activity common to all colleges and universities. Most institutions engage in hiring activities each year. Despite the number of searches conducted annually, most available information about faculty hiring consists of guidelines for conducting searches and statistics about searches within disciplines. The purpose…
Descriptors: Tenure, Personnel Selection, College Faculty, Personnel Policy
Boring, Michael R. – Washington State School Directors' Association (NJ1), 2011
The selection of a superintendent is among the most significant decisions any school district board of directors will make. The superintendent should be the person and office through which the direction set by the board is carried out. The working relationship that develops between the board and superintendent is thus absolutely critical and the…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Superintendents, Worksheets, Personnel Selection
Basken, Paul – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2009
For Daniel J. Kaniewski, the magic formula needed to redirect his career path from anonymous academic researcher to presidential policy adviser was only 719 words long. A single newspaper column that he wrote in April 2005 succinctly criticized the Department of Homeland Security's disaster-preparation plans. A few months later, a White House…
Descriptors: Presidents, Employment Opportunities, Occupational Surveys, Evaluation Criteria
Washington Office of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Olympia. – 1974
This booklet presents a model for use by any size or type of school district in developing an affirmative action plan. The model is intended to give districts a clear idea of what affirmative action requires and what type of program must be implemented for affirmative action to be successful. Separate sections of the booklet discuss numerical…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Affirmative Action, Civil Rights Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education
