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Steiner, Elizabeth D.; Woo, Ashley; Doan, Sy – RAND Corporation, 2023
Although well-being appears to have improved for many public school teachers of kindergarten to grade 12 (K-12) since the beginning of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, in some states, more teachers left their jobs at the end of the 2021-2022 school year than in the two previous school years and at rates higher than prepandemic averages. When…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Salaries, Ethnicity, Diversity
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Steiner, Elizabeth D.; Greer, Lucas; Berdie, Lisa; Schwartz, Heather L.; Woo, Ashley; Doan, Sy; Lawrence, Rebecca Ann; Wolfe, Rebecca L.; Gittens, Allyson D. – RAND Corporation, 2022
All students--particularly students of color--benefit academically and socially from having teachers who are people of color. However, people of color face systemic barriers to becoming and remaining teachers at multiple points throughout their careers. For example, people of color are more likely than their White peers to incur student debt,…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Diversity (Faculty), Minority Group Teachers, Barriers
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Doan, Sy; Steiner, Elizabeth D.; Woo, Ashley – RAND Corporation, 2023
This technical report presents information about the sample, content, and administration of the nationally representative 2023 State of the American Teacher (SoT) survey and the American Life Panel (ALP) companion survey. The SoT was completed by 1,439 American Teacher Panel members and the ALP survey was completed by 527 ALP members in January…
Descriptors: Teacher Surveys, State of the Art Reviews, Well Being, Stress Variables
Diliberti, Melissa Kay; Schwartz, Heather L.; Grant, David – RAND Corporation, 2021
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has added more stress to an already high-stress profession: American public school teacher. The authors of this report share the results of a new survey of nearly 1,000 former public school teachers and reveal how important stress has been--even more so than pay--to teachers' decisions to leave the…
Descriptors: Teacher Persistence, Labor Turnover, Stress Variables, Teaching Conditions
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Karoly, Lynn A.; Cannon, Jill S.; Gomez, Celia J.; Woo, Ashley – RAND Corporation, 2022
In the past decade, various stakeholders in the public and private sectors in Hawai'i have sought to increase the state's investment in child care and early learning programs. A new Executive Office of Early Learning was established in June 2012 to build a statewide early childhood development and learning system. The state also established a…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Access to Education, Child Care, Equal Education
Zellman, Gail L.; Ryan Gery W.; Karam, Rita; Constant, Louay; Salem, Hanine; Gonzalez, Gabriella; Orr, Nate; Goldman, Charles A.; Al-Thani, Hessa; Al-Obaidli, Kholode – RAND Corporation, 2009
The leadership of Qatar is greatly invested in its K-12 education reform, "Education for a New Era," because it views education as the key to the nation's economic and social progress. This study, one of a number of RAND studies that trace and document the reform process in Qatar, was designed to assess progress made in the first years…
Descriptors: Private Schools, Elementary Secondary Education, Academic Achievement, Program Effectiveness