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Vivona, Brian – New Horizons in Adult Education & Human Resource Development, 2015
This essay is a compilation of several conversations with Dr. Gene Roth, Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus at Northern Illinois University. Dr. Roth is past President of the Academy of Human Resource Development, and although he is well known for his efforts in bringing humor into the field of HRD, he is not the same Gene Roth that played…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Retirement, Humor, Interviews
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Peist, Eric; McMahon, Susan D.; Davis, Jacqueline O.; Keys, Christopher B. – Journal of School Violence, 2020
Teacher turnover is a significant issue in education that negatively affects students' academic performance and instructional continuity. While multiple factors impact turnover, the effects of violence directed against teachers on turnover have rarely been explored. The current study examines the extent to which (dis)empowerment applies to…
Descriptors: Faculty Mobility, Teacher Transfer, Violence, Aggression
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Varadharajan, Meera; Buchanan, John; Schuck, Sandy – Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 2020
Career changers form a substantial proportion of teacher education (TE) students. They bring a broader set of life and work experiences than do their younger, school-leaving counterparts. This paper investigates the needs and concerns of career change student teachers (CCSTs) in Australia. The study on which this article reports analysed survey…
Descriptors: Career Change, Teacher Education Programs, Teacher Persistence, Altruism
Aldeman, Chad – Bellwether Education Partners, 2020
In response to financial pressures, the New York State Assembly has created new, less-generous retirement plans for teachers. Teachers and other education employees are enrolled in one of two plans, the Teachers' Retirement System of the City of New York (TRS) and the New York State Teachers' Retirement System (NYSTRS). How far have the benefits…
Descriptors: Teacher Employment Benefits, Retirement Benefits, Money Management, Teacher Salaries
Costrell, Robert; Maloney, Larry – Thomas B. Fordham Institute, 2019
Teachers and other employees of the School District of Philadelphia receive their retirement benefits from the Pennsylvania state retirement plan for schools, which includes both a defined-benefit pension plan and a modest retiree health benefit. The cost of the former is expected to rise quite substantially and, as this technical analysis will…
Descriptors: Retirement Benefits, Public Schools, School Districts, Urban Schools
Porter, Anne Marie; Tyler, John; Nicholson, Starr; Ivie, Rachel – AIP Statistical Research Center, 2020
In any academic department, faculty members retire or leave for a variety of reasons, and new faculty members are hired to replace departing faculty or fill newly created positions. This report focuses on departures, retirements, recruitments, and new hires in physics and astronomy departments. In our Academic Workforce Surveys, we collect the…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Science Teachers, Physics, Astronomy
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Jowers, Richard F.; Curtner-Smith, Matthew D. – Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 2022
Purpose: To construct the life history of an exemplary veteran African American physical education teacher education faculty member. Method: The participant was Dr. Andrew Lewis, a retired professor from the College of Charleston. Data were collected through formal semistructured interviews, informal interviews, and documents and artifacts. They…
Descriptors: African American Teachers, Physical Education Teachers, Racism, Ethnic Stereotypes
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Diamond, Fleur; Bulfin, Scott – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2021
The growing interest in the history of curriculum and pedagogy in subject English might be seen as a response to educational reforms that are replacing earlier, progressive understandings of subject English with narrowly technical understandings of teacher professional knowledge and practice. This essay emerges out of an intergenerational,…
Descriptors: Educational History, English Instruction, Educational Change, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
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Mendez, Sylvia L.; Conley, Valerie Martin; Tygret, Jennifer; Gerhardt, Rosario; Haynes, Comas – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2019
Higher education institutions are seeking to ease faculty retirement transitions and to identify ways in which retiring faculty can continue to make contributions in retirement. The University of Southern California and Clemson University, among others across the United States, have established emeritus colleges and retiree centers to offer…
Descriptors: Teacher Retirement, College Faculty, Mentors, Experienced Teachers
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Chmielewski, Kristen – History of Education Quarterly, 2020
Ideas and norms about disability shaped the experiences and careers of every teacher and prospective teacher in the Los Angeles public schools between 1930 and 1970. Medical doctors created and conducted the extensive medical examinations that teaching candidates and practicing teachers needed to pass to enter or remain in the classroom. The Los…
Descriptors: Teachers, Public Schools, Educational History, Teacher Characteristics
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Carver-Thomas, Desiree; Leung, Melanie; Burns, Dion – Learning Policy Institute, 2021
California will need a stable, high-quality teacher workforce to weather the COVID-19 crisis and support student learning in the coming years. However, persistent and worsening teacher shortages threaten the state's ability to meet that need. Teacher shortages, which are often most acute in high-need fields and high-need schools, more severely…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Teacher Shortage, Labor Turnover
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Chmielewski, Kristen – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2018
This article explores how Dr. Emil Altman and the New York City Board of Education manipulated prevailing narratives of disability in a crusade to rid their city school system of "unfit" teachers during the late 1920s through to the early 1940s. Capitalising on fears of disability related to ideas about efficiency and eugenics, Altman…
Descriptors: Educational History, Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Characteristics, Attitudes toward Disabilities
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Stimpson, Catharine R. – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2018
The number of United States professors aged 65 years and older is growing. This older professor presents the stories of four teaching experiences which belong to the larger story of faculty longevity during the past five decades and its subsequent conflicts with retirement. The first was in the 1960s, when she was a new professor, not much older…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Teacher Retirement, College Faculty, Teaching Experience
Shuls, James V.; Hitt, Collin; Costrell, Robert M. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2019
When policy advocates debate how best to ensure equity in public education funding, the topic of teacher pension reform rarely comes up. But, in fact, pensions represent a very large and fast-growing source of education spending, much of it distributed in ways that are, in a number of states, anything but equitable. When states subsidize teacher…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Public Education, Financial Support, Educational Policy
Church, Bret; Simmering, Luke – Kansas Association of School Boards, 2022
A growing educator shortage is having significant impacts in schools and communities throughout the United States. In response to this growing concern, the Kansas Teacher Retention Initiative was launched in the summer of 2021, with a focus on measuring, understanding, interpreting, and disseminating data-driven insights regarding the driving…
Descriptors: Teacher Shortage, Teacher Persistence, Job Satisfaction, Teacher Attitudes
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