Background: Teachers are an important resource for implementing education interventions and appropriately valuing their time is essential to developing a valid estimate of an intervention's cost. Economic evaluation standards call for valuing teacher time using a market price equal to their compensation, inclusive of their wages and benefits…

Attracting and retaining high-quality teachers in the profession is a matter of significant policy concern. Increasing teacher salaries and creating more attractive compensation packages are often proposed to achieve this goal. However, average real teacher salaries have remained stagnant over the past decade and have not fully recovered from the…

The well-being of Head Start teachers is essential to ensuring high-quality early care and education (ECE) and supporting children's development. The COVID-19 pandemic raised unique challenges to teachers' well-being. In this brief, the authors explore Head Start teachers' health, anxiety symptoms, depressive symptoms, stress, and job…