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Doherty, Kathryn M.; Jacobs, Sandi; Lueken, Martin F. – National Council on Teacher Quality, 2015
Challenging the claims of pension boards and other groups about the cost-effectiveness, fairness and flexibility of the traditional defined benefit pension plans still in place in 38 states, this report includes a report card on each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia, with a detailed analysis of state teacher pension policies, and…
Descriptors: Teacher Retirement, Retirement Benefits, Geographic Location, Eligibility
Carver-Thomas, Desiree; Kini, Tara; Burns, Dion – Learning Policy Institute, 2020
Teacher shortages that most severely affect schools serving the least advantaged children have been part of the California education landscape for the last half decade. This brief describes how key teacher supply and demand factors vary across the state, and it provides potential policy solutions to mitigate ongoing shortages. The brief also…
Descriptors: Teacher Supply and Demand, Teacher Shortage, Educational Policy, COVID-19
Carver-Thomas, Desiree; Kini, Tara; Burns, Dion – Learning Policy Institute, 2020
When California students returned to school in fall 2019, hundreds of thousands returned to classrooms staffed by substitutes and teachers who were not fully prepared to teach. In recent years, California has experienced widespread shortages of elementary and secondary teachers as districts and schools seek to restore class sizes and course…
Descriptors: Teacher Supply and Demand, Teacher Shortage, Educational Policy, COVID-19
Johnson, Richard W.; Southgate, Benjamin G. – Urban Institute, 2014
The financial problems afflicting the Illinois teacher pension plan have grabbed headlines. An equally important problem, though underappreciated, is that relatively few teachers benefit much from the plan. This report evaluates the pension benefits provided to Illinois public school teachers. The researchers project annual and lifetime pension…
Descriptors: Retirement Benefits, Teacher Retirement, Public School Teachers, Teacher Salaries
Chapman, Anne – Public Policy Forum, 2017
This is the third in a series of reports on public school educators in the Milwaukee area. It provides an updated analysis to a previous report, "Help Wanted: An Analysis of the Teacher Pipeline in Metro Milwaukee." This report finds that teacher turnover in both metro Milwaukee and across the state has stabilized. However a higher…
Descriptors: Educational Trends, Public School Teachers, Faculty Mobility, Labor Force
Joseph, AnnRené – International Dialogues on Education: Past and Present, 2020
The future of arts education is at stake. This paper attempts to examine the future of arts education via the responses of a qualitative survey, student samples, individual interviews, and research regarding arts education as essential education for all learners during a pandemic and beyond. The sudden decree that all attendance at public and…
Descriptors: Art Education, Pandemics, COVID-19, Student Attitudes
Kan, Leslie; Aldeman, Chad – Bellwether Education Partners, 2014
Retirement savings are often described as a three-legged stool: Social Security, employer retirement plans, and personal savings. For many American workers, Social Security is the most consistent portion of the three-legged model, providing a solid plank of retirement savings. But nationwide, more than 1 million teachers--about 40 percent of all…
Descriptors: Teacher Retirement, Retirement Benefits, Elementary School Teachers, Public School Teachers
Baldwin, Roger G.; Zeig, Michael J. – Innovative Higher Education, 2013
The emeritus college, a recent higher education innovation, provides retired professors with a means to stay intellectually engaged and continue to contribute professionally in retirement. The emeritus college can also help institutions maintain a steady flow of professional talent by making retirement more attractive for senior academics. This…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Innovation, College Faculty, Teacher Retirement
Espinoza, Daniel; Saunders, Ryan; Kini, Tara; Darling-Hammond, Linda – Learning Policy Institute, 2018
Across the country, districts and schools are struggling to meet the growing demand for qualified teachers. Indeed, there are some subjects--such as mathematics, science, and special education--in which nearly every state is experiencing a teacher shortage. As a result, states often turn to underqualified teachers to fill the vacuum, a problematic…
Descriptors: State Action, Teacher Shortage, Teaching (Occupation), Scholarships
Jasiunas, Bonnie – Communique, 2012
After more than 36 years as a teacher and school psychologist, the author decided that it was time for her to retire at the end of last school year (2011-2012). She spent her career as school psychologist trying to make a difference in the lives of the children and families that she served. But before she retired her WISC test kit, stopwatch, and…
Descriptors: Retirement, School Psychologists, Teacher Retirement, Teachers
McNeill, Kristen Maria – ProQuest LLC, 2016
There is a developing body of research suggesting low job satisfaction among teachers can lead to potential consequences for educators, students, and school districts (Darling-Hammond, 2010; Ladebo, 2005; Sarnek, Musser, Caskey, Olsen & Green, 2006; Wu & Short, 1996). There is also a growing concern about the number of teachers who are…
Descriptors: Middle School Teachers, Job Satisfaction, School Districts, Teacher Shortage
Koedel, Cory; Xiang, P. Brett – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), 2015
We use data from workers in the largest public-sector occupation in the United States -- teaching -- to examine the effect of pension enhancements on employee retention. Specifically, we study a 1999 enhancement to the benefit formula for public school teachers in St. Louis that resulted in an immediate and dramatic increase in their incentives to…
Descriptors: Government Employees, Public School Teachers, Public Sector, Retirement Benefits
Chingos, Matthew M.; West, Martin R. – Thomas B. Fordham Institute, 2013
This paper analyzes a 2002 policy change in Florida allowing teachers to choose between a traditional defined benefit pension plan and a 401k-style defined contribution plan. The authors were able to track who chose which plan, what subject they taught, how effective they were in the classroom, how long they remained teaching, and whether the…
Descriptors: Retirement Benefits, Teacher Retirement, Public School Teachers, Teacher Effectiveness
Fong, Anthony B.; Makkonen, Reino; Jaquet, Karina – Regional Educational Laboratory West, 2016
This report projects California teacher retirements at the state and county levels for 2014/15-2023/24, updating a previously published report that projected California teacher retirements for 2006/07-2015/16. The current study finds that 25 percent of California teachers who were teaching in 2013/14 are projected to retire over 2014/15-2023/24.…
Descriptors: Teacher Retirement, Geographic Location, Counties, Tables (Data)
Fishman, Seth Matthew – Academe, 2012
The silver tide of faculty retirement continues to ebb and flow. While much of today's scholarship on faculty retirement focuses on the financial implications for colleges and universities, arguing that older faculty members clog up the faculty pipeline, cost more in salary and benefits, and are ineffective teachers who fear technology, little…
Descriptors: Retirement, College Faculty, Teacher Retirement, Interviews