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Ni, Shawn; Podgursky, Michael; Wang, Xiqian – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), 2020
Many states enhanced benefits in teacher retirement plans during the 1990s. This paper examines the school staffing effects of one such enhancement in a major urban school district with mostly high poverty schools. Pension rule changes in 1999 for St. Louis public school teachers resulted in very large increases in pension wealth for active…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, School Districts, Teacher Retirement, Retirement Benefits
Theron Antonio Stallworth – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Studies regarding Black male teachers' experiences working in predominantly White schools are rarely found in academic literature. This is especially true of retired Black male teachers who worked in predominantly White settings. The pronounced absence of profiles of these men is a concern, since less than three percent of classroom teachers are…
Descriptors: African American Teachers, Teaching Experience, Teacher Retirement, Whites
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Melissa Kay Diliberti; Heather L. Schwartz – RAND Corporation, 2024
Since its launch in the midst of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, the American School District Panel (ASDP) has been used to monitor timely topics in kindergarten through grade 12 (K-12) public education. Over time, ASDP surveys have coalesced around four key challenges that U.S. public school districts face today: school…
Descriptors: School Surveys, Teacher Surveys, School Districts, Educational Trends
Gibbons, Teresa Blount – ProQuest LLC, 2023
There is a nationwide shortage of qualified teachers, with 90% of all teacher shortages caused by teacher attrition (Carver-Thomas & Darling-Hammond, 2019). This study surveyed public school K-12 teachers in South Carolina to gain an understanding of workplace factors that contribute to teacher intentions to quit/ teacher attrition. The…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Public School Teachers, Intention, Labor Turnover
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Chaichian, Mohammad A. – Educational Gerontology, 2021
Using the "theory of continuity," and based on quantitative and qualitative data collected from an online survey and one-on-one interviews from a nonrandom sample of retired faculty, this exploratory study examines guiding considerations for transition to retirement at a mid-sized University in the Midwest. Abolition of mandatory…
Descriptors: Teacher Retirement, Older Workers, College Faculty, Private Colleges
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Carver-Thomas, Desiree; Burns, Dion; Leung, Melanie; Ondrasek, Naomi – Learning Policy Institute, 2022
How are California districts handling deepening teacher shortages 18 months into the COVID-19 pandemic? Following up on a March 2021 study, "California Teachers and COVID-19: How the Pandemic Is Impacting the Teacher Workforce" (ED614374), this report describes the severe shortages many districts are experiencing and the strategies some…
Descriptors: Teacher Shortage, COVID-19, Pandemics, Teacher Supply and Demand
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Dorji, N. – Journal on School Educational Technology, 2020
Teachers shortage is one of the major concerns in the public schools of Bhutan and the impact on academic achievement is very much overwhelming. The data collected within the period of five years (2015-2019) shows the increase in attrition rate by 3.98% which is a concern for the education sector of Bhutan. Yearly the voluntary resignation of the…
Descriptors: Faculty Mobility, Teacher Shortage, Teacher Persistence, Incentives
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Davidovitch, Nitza; Eckhaus, Eyal – Higher Education Studies, 2020
This study is a pioneer study examining the significance of retirement in terms of lost investments and outcomes. Research findings on the output of academic faculty and on measures of excellence in higher education indicate that upon retirement the academic institution as an organization loses not only faculty who are still capable of…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Retirement, Academic Rank (Professional)
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Michelle Doughty – Teachers College Record, 2024
Background/Context: High teacher turnover has directed a great deal of scholarly attention toward the connection between teacher retention and teacher working conditions. Prior work has identified a set of key working conditions associated with teacher retention, including supportive school leadership, school safety, a collaborative professional…
Descriptors: Teacher Persistence, Faculty Mobility, Teacher Attitudes, Teaching Conditions
Winters, Marcus A. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2017
Public school teachers deserve a compensation system that puts them on a secure path toward retirement. The severely backloaded structure of today's public school teacher pension systems benefit only a small proportion of entering teachers while putting the rest on an insecure retirement path. But there is a cost-neutral solution to this problem…
Descriptors: Retirement Benefits, Public School Teachers, Teacher Retirement, Job Layoff
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Farinde-Wu, Abiola; Butler, Bettie Ray; Allen-Handy, Ayana – Theory Into Practice, 2020
Considering Black women's historic contributions and enduring legacy in education, their continual disproportionate underrepresentation in US public schools is severely problematic. The absence of Black women in many public schools nationally is disconcerting given their potential to improve school outcomes for students of Color. Despite this…
Descriptors: African American Teachers, Public School Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers
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Aldeman, Chad – Education Next, 2019
Los Angeles Unified, the second-largest school district in the country, is on pace to spend more than half of its annual budget on retirement and health-care costs by the year 2031. By then, it is projected to spend 22.4 percent of its budget on pensions and 28.4 on health-care benefits for current and former workers. The cost of health care is…
Descriptors: School Districts, Teacher Employment Benefits, Health Services, Public Education
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Cahill, Mairead; Galvin, Rose; Pettigrew, Judith – Educational Gerontology, 2021
Retirement is now considered a process rather than a single event. Pathways to retirement are evolving and the retirement experiences of academics are becoming increasingly relevant given the aging academic workforce in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) worldwide. Academic retirement studies highlight that most academics continue to work in…
Descriptors: Women Faculty, Teacher Retirement, Older Adults, Aging (Individuals)
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Bramblett, Sandra – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2020
Human resources (HR) represent the most significant investment on most of our college campuses in terms of time and financial resources. The importance of good data about the workforce begins with establishing a need for a new position. That need for data continues with recruiting, hiring, training, promoting, retaining (or not), and retiring…
Descriptors: Institutional Research, Human Resources, Evidence Based Practice, Decision Making
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Eckhaus, Eyal; Davidovitch, Nitza – Journal of Education and Learning, 2019
This study is a pioneer study examining the effects of personal and occupational background variables on the attitude of faculty members to an obligatory retirement age in academia. Previous studies on performance measures of academic faculty in research, teaching, academic administration, and contribution to the community, testified to…
Descriptors: Teacher Retirement, College Faculty, Age, Tenure
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