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Persistence Despite Structural Barriers: Investigating Work Environments for Black and Latinx Teachers in Urban and Suburban Schools

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Wesley Edwards – Urban Education, 2024

Research suggests that work environments are associated with turnover patterns for teachers of Color. This study investigates variation in work environments using longitudinal administrative data from 20 large urban and suburban K-12 school districts. Results indicate that teachers of Color are more often employed in "hard-to-staff" work…

Descriptors: Urban Schools, Suburban Schools, African American Teachers, Minority Group Teachers

The Influence of Working Conditions on Principal Turnover in K-12 Public Schools

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Yan, Rui – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2020

Purpose: During the past two decades, principal turnover issues have raised nationwide concerns about leadership stability and student performance. With national data from National Center for Education Statistics, this study examines how principal working conditions influence the probability of different types of principal turnover (mover,…

Descriptors: Work Environment, Principals, Public Schools, Elementary Schools

Exploring the Relationship between PK3-12 Teacher's Perceived Quality of Relationship with His/ Her Principal and Teacher Job Satisfaction

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Alvarado, Claudia – ProQuest LLC, 2018

This study examined the relationship between PK3-12 teacher's perceived Leader Member Exchange with his/her principal and teacher job satisfaction. A demographic survey, the Leader Member Exchange Questionnaire 7 (Graen & Uhl-Bien, 1995) and the Job Satisfaction Survey (Spector, 1994) were completed by 252 teachers from the researcher's…

Descriptors: Job Satisfaction, Teacher Attitudes, Principals, Teacher Administrator Relationship

The Pre-K-8 School Leader in 2018: A 10-Year Study

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Fuller, Edward J.; Young, Michelle D.; Richardson, M. Scott; Pendola, Andrew; Winn, Kathleen M. – National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP), 2018

Principals historically have needed to adapt to dramatic shifts that impact their schools, including significant policy changes at the state and federal levels. For example, the 2008 study recorded principals' reactions to No Child Left Behind (NCLB), signed into law in early 2002. NCLB substantially altered the landscape of education across the…

Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Elementary Schools

Physics, Chemistry and Biology Teachers' Reasons for Choosing the Profession of Teaching and Their Levels of Job Satisfaction with Respect to Certain Variables

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Baran, Medine; Maskan, Abdulkadir; Baran, Mukadder – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2015

The purpose of this study was to determine teachers' reasons for choosing the profession of teaching and their level of job satisfaction and to investigate the effects of certain variables on their job satisfaction. The research data were collected via a questionnaire form to determine the demographic backgrounds of the participants and a Job…

Descriptors: Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Science Teachers

Is Seeing Believing? How Americans and Germans Think about Their Schools. Program on Education Policy and Governance Working Papers Series. PEPG 15-02

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Henderson, Michael B.; Lergetporer, Philipp; Peterson, Paul E.; Werner, Katharina; West, Martin R.; Woessmann, Ludger – Program on Education Policy and Governance, 2015

What do citizens of the United States and Germany think about their schools and school policies? This paper offers the first broad comparison of public thinking on education in the two countries. We carried out opinion surveys of representative samples of the German and American adult populations in 2014 that included experiments in which we…

Descriptors: Governance, School Policy, Educational Attitudes, National Surveys

Invisible Ink in Collective Bargaining: Why Key Issues Are Not Addressed

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Cohen, Emily; Walsh, Kate; Biddle, RiShawn – National Council on Teacher Quality, 2008

In this report, the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) takes a close look at the governance of the teaching profession and finds that state legislators and other state-level policymakers crafting state laws and regulation, not those bargaining at the local level, decide some of the most important rules governing the teaching profession.…

Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Collective Bargaining, Governance, Unions

2011 State Teacher Policy Yearbook. Texas

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National Council on Teacher Quality, 2011

For five years running, the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) has tracked states' teacher policies, preparing a detailed and thorough compendium of teacher policy in the United States on topics related to teacher preparation, licensure, evaluation, career advancement, tenure, compensation, pensions and dismissal. The "2011 State…