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Direct linkPodgursky, Michael – Education Next, 2006
In the flurry of activity surrounding the implementation of No Child Left Behind's (NCLB) student proficiency mandates, the federal requirement to have a "highly qualified" teacher in every classroom by 2005 seemed like an impossible goal. However, 2005 has come and gone and the highly qualified teacher crisis never happened. In this…
Descriptors: Standards, Federal Legislation, Compensation (Remuneration), Teacher Salaries
Download full textRegional Laboratory for Educational Improvement of the Northeast & Islands, Andover, MA. – 1988
This collection of articles gathers reprinted materials on teacher attraction and retention for small and rural school districts. The material is organized in two sections: (1) Attracting and Retaining Quality Teachers and (2) Challenging and Enriching Current Staff. Reprints from a number of publications present strategies for addressing the…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Merit Pay, Teacher Employment, Teacher Morale
Peer reviewedFerris, James; Winkler, Donald – Elementary School Journal, 1986
Focuses chiefly on compensation as a means of improving the quality and increasing the supply of public school teachers. Recommends variety and flexibility in the forms of compensation as means of recruiting new, high-quality teachers and retaining existing teachers. (DR)
Descriptors: Compensation (Remuneration), Elementary Secondary Education, Fringe Benefits, Merit Pay
Alexander, Kern, Ed.; Monk, David H., Ed. – 1987
Focusing on the classroom teacher as the key component in the educational process, this yearbook reviews recent school reform upheavals and their effects on teacher compensation, availability and quality of teachers, teacher retirement systems and related issues. After introductory observations on teachers' economic subsidies by Kern Alexander,…
Descriptors: Compensation (Remuneration), Educational Economics, Elementary Secondary Education, Expenditures
Steuteville-Brodinsky, Mary; And Others – 1989
Strategies for teacher selection, recruitment, and retention are summarized in this report, which is based on results of a national survey of trends, practices, and opinions of school administrators. Thirteen chapters are contained in three sections, which deal specifically with the teacher selection, recruitment, and retention processes. The…
Descriptors: Career Ladders, Evaluation Criteria, Incentives, Instructional Improvement
Cresap, McCormick, and Paget, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1984
Teacher incentive systems enable school districts to address the current concerns of their constituencies: teachers' concern with salaries, administrators' concern for attracting good people into the teaching profession, and community concern that increased expenditures for teacher salaries have not improved education. Accordingly, this handbook…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Incentives, Merit Pay, Professional Development
Wisconsin State Dept. of Public Instruction, Madison. – 1984
This report, commissioned by Wisconsin's superintendent of public instruction, focuses on methods of attracting, preparing, and retaining competent and dedicated teachers in Wisconsin schools. Part I consists of recommendations to attract competent individuals to careers in teaching: informing the public about career opportunities in education and…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Merit Pay
