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Ingersoll, Richard; May, Henry; Collins, Gregory – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2019
This study examines and compares the recruitment, employment, and retention of minority and nonminority school teachers over the quarter century from the late 1980s to 2013. Our objective is to empirically ground the ongoing debate regarding minority teacher shortages and changes in the minority teaching force. The data we analyze are from the…
Descriptors: Teacher Recruitment, Employment, Teacher Persistence, Minority Group Teachers
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Ingersoll, Richard; May, Henry; Collins, Greg – Learning Policy Institute, 2017
This study examines and compares the recruitment, employment, and retention of minority and nonminority school teachers over the past quarter century. The objective of the study is to empirically ground the debate over minority teacher shortages. The data analyzed are from the National Center for Education Statistics' nationally representative…
Descriptors: Minority Group Teachers, Teacher Recruitment, Teacher Persistence, Elementary School Teachers
Ingersoll, Richard M.; May, Henry – Phi Delta Kappan, 2011
This research examines national data on the status of the minority teacher shortage--the low proportion of minority teachers in comparison to the increasing numbers of students of color in schools. The authors show that efforts over recent decades to recruit more minority teachers, and place them in disadvantaged schools, have been very…
Descriptors: Minority Group Teachers, Teacher Shortage, Evidence, Teacher Recruitment
Ingersoll, Richard M.; Merrill, Lisa; May, Henry – Consortium for Policy Research in Education, 2014
This study addresses the question: Do the kinds and amounts of pre-service education and preparation that beginning teachers receive before they start teaching have any impact on whether they leave teaching? We examine a wide range of measures of teachers' subject-matter education and pedagogical preparation. We also compare different fields of…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Beginning Teachers, Teacher Persistence, Labor Turnover
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Ingersoll, Richard M.; May, Henry – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2012
This study examines the magnitude, destinations, and determinants of mathematics and science teacher turnover. The data are from the nationally representative Schools and Staffing Survey and the Teacher Follow-Up Survey. Over the past two decades, rates of mathematics and science teacher turnover have increased but, contrary to conventional…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Economically Disadvantaged, Teacher Persistence, Faculty Mobility
Ingersoll, Richard; May, Henry – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2010
The objective of this study is to use nationally representative data to examine the rates, destinations and sources of math and science teacher turnover. There are four sets of research questions the authors address concerning the departure of mathematics and science teachers from their schools: (1) At what rates do mathematics/science teachers…
Descriptors: Teacher Salaries, Teacher Persistence, Labor Turnover, Teacher Shortage
Ingersoll, Richard M.; May, Henry – Consortium for Policy Research in Education, 2011
This study examines and compares the recruitment and retention of minority and White elementary and secondary teachers and attempts to empirically ground the debate over minority teacher shortages. The data we analyze are from the National Center for Education Statistics' nationally representative Schools and Staffing Survey and its longitudinal…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Schools, Poverty, Educational Research, Teacher Persistence
Ingersoll, Richard M.; May, Henry – Consortium for Policy Research in Education, 2010
This study examines the magnitude, destinations, and determinants of the departures of mathematics and science teachers from public schools. The data are from the National Center for Education Statistics' nationally representative Schools and Staffing Survey and its longitudinal supplement, the Teacher Follow-up Survey. Our analyses show that…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Teacher Persistence, Labor Turnover, Science Teachers