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Ashley Ellison; Thomas Smith – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2024
Background/Context: School districts across the United States face persistent difficulties recruiting and retaining teachers (GarcĂ­a & Weiss, 2019; Schmitt & deCourcy, 2022). Over the last decade, every state in the south has faced a growing teacher shortage, with some facing shortages in all grades and subjects (U.S. Department of…
Descriptors: High School Students, Career Choice, Teacher Shortage, Teacher Recruitment
Payne, Carol D.; Dunkelberger, John E. – 1977
In order to ascertain whether distinctive patterns of selectivity exist among young aspirants to professional careers in education and health situses, data from a survey of high school seniors (N=1,500) in four northeast and two southeast Alabama counties and from three selected urban high schools adjacent to the northeast counties were examined.…
Descriptors: Blacks, Career Choice, Education, Health Occupations
Haenn, Joseph F. – 1990
This report compares the average annual earnings of teachers to the average annual earnings of college graduates in full-time salaried, nonteaching positions in six states: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, and South Carolina. This is the seventh in a series of annual analyses of wage comparability studies. In addition to…
Descriptors: Career Choice, College Graduates, Comparative Analysis, Compensation (Remuneration)