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Aaron, Shanita V. Brown – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Principal turnover continues to be a problem in schools today, and urban schools experience principal turnover at the highest rate. There has been an abundance of research on turnover of school principals, yet minimal research on retention of urban school principals. This qualitative study used semi-structured interviews with retired urban school…
Descriptors: Principals, Labor Turnover, Urban Schools, Persistence
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Koedel, Cory; Ni, Shawn; Podgursky, Michael – Education Finance and Policy, 2014
During the late 1990s public pension funds across the United States accrued large actuarial surpluses. The seemingly flush conditions of the pension funds led legislators in most states to substantially improve retirement benefits for public workers, including teachers. In this study we examine the benefit enhancements to the teacher pension…
Descriptors: Retirement Benefits, Teacher Retirement, Beginning Teachers, Compensation (Remuneration)
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Karmiyati, Diah; Rahmadiani, Nixie Devina; Hasanati, Nida – Journal of Social Studies Education Research, 2020
Retirement is considered an event that requires individual readjustment, so it can affect the psychological wellbeing of the elderly, especially for women. Better self-esteem can encourage individuals to respect themselves more, however, leading in turn to improvements in the dimension of psychological wellbeing. The aim of this study is to…
Descriptors: Therapy, Well Being, Retirement, Females
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Farinde-Wu, Abiola; Butler, Bettie Ray; Allen-Handy, Ayana – Theory Into Practice, 2020
Considering Black women's historic contributions and enduring legacy in education, their continual disproportionate underrepresentation in US public schools is severely problematic. The absence of Black women in many public schools nationally is disconcerting given their potential to improve school outcomes for students of Color. Despite this…
Descriptors: African American Teachers, Public School Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers
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Strom, Robert D.; Strom, Paris S. – Educational Gerontology, 2020
Public awareness of demographic change is necessary to guide individual and national planning for retirement. For the first time in American history, older adults are forecast to soon outnumber children. Accordingly, expectations for retirement should be considered in a larger than personal context, a broad perspective that implicates relatives,…
Descriptors: Peer Influence, Aging (Individuals), Retirement, Attitude Change
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Paganelli, Anthony; Cangemi, Joseph – Education, 2019
Faculty working well beyond retirement age has become an issue in higher education that includes increased expenditures in benefits and salaries, hindrance of hiring minorities and women, and teaching effectiveness. The effects of aging faculty contribute to the factors in student retention. A few factors in student success involve affordability,…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Aging (Individuals), Teacher Characteristics, Retirement
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Tran, Henry; Smith, Doug – Journal of Educational Administration, 2019
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the influence of financial factors on motivating college students to consider teaching in hard-to-staff rural schools. The role of perceived respectability of the profession was also explored. Design/methodology/approach: This work relies on an explanatory sequential mixed-method design, that…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Motivation, Rural Schools, Professional Identity
Morwick, Carolyn – New England Journal of Higher Education, 2019
This article summarizes the Governor Budget proposals in the New England region. Governor Ned Lamont of Connecticut proposed restructuring, refinancing the systems' payments and slowing the rate of increase in the teachers' pension fund and the state employee pension fund, both of which are underfunded. Lamont also announced that for the first…
Descriptors: Budgets, Educational Finance, State Officials, Taxes
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Rabbani, Abed G.; Yao, Zheying; Wang, Christina; Grable, John E. – Journal of Financial Counseling and Planning, 2021
Financial risk tolerance is an important personal characteristic that is widely used by financial professionals to guide the development and presentation of client-centered recommendations. As more baby boomers enter retirement, research on how these individuals perceive their willingness to take financial risks has gained importance, particularly…
Descriptors: Risk, Decision Making, Money Management, Financial Services
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Zharkova, Alena A.; Losyakov, Andrey V.; Anufriev, Aleksander F.; Krokhina, Julia A.; Mayorova, Elena I.; Gundarin, Mikhail V.; Grigorev, Sergey M. – Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences, 2021
The article considers the problem of activation of people of retirement age during the period of self-isolation and studies education as a means of their activation. As a research method, the questionnaire method was used, which allows us most effectively to find out the features in the attitude of retirement age people who are in self-isolation…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Adult Education, Older Adults, Retirement
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Cahill, Mairead; Galvin, Rose; Pettigrew, Judith – Educational Gerontology, 2021
Retirement is now considered a process rather than a single event. Pathways to retirement are evolving and the retirement experiences of academics are becoming increasingly relevant given the aging academic workforce in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) worldwide. Academic retirement studies highlight that most academics continue to work in…
Descriptors: Women Faculty, Teacher Retirement, Older Adults, Aging (Individuals)
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Miller, Kevin J. – Journal of Special Education Leadership, 2018
In this article, the author interviewed five former colleagues who were retired special education administrators about their careers and perspectives during the spring of 2012. They all worked for a regional education agency in Pennsylvania. The interviews revealed many challenges, from physical exhaustion to a changing organizational culture.…
Descriptors: Special Education, Educational Administration, Administrators, Administrator Attitudes
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Reyers, Michelle – Journal of Financial Counseling and Planning, 2018
Concerns regarding the adequacy of retirement savings have contributed to the move to encourage better savings behavior. One area of research focuses on understanding the profile of individuals who believe they are preparing adequately for retirement. The current study uses data from a national survey of South Africans to determine how confident…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Retirement, Preretirement Education, Money Management
Goldhaber, Dan; Grout, Cyrus; Holden, Kris – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), 2015
Public pension systems in many U.S. states face large funding shortfalls. Movement toward defined contribution (DC) pension structures may reduce the likelihood of future shortfalls. We address some limitations of the existing literature by studying public-sector employees who are enrolled in either a defined benefit (DB) plan or hybrid DB-DC…
Descriptors: Retirement Benefits, Labor Turnover, Public Sector, Employees
Lueken, Martin F. – Thomas B. Fordham Institute, 2017
Pensions are a promise made today of benefits to be received tomorrow. They reward employees, including public school teachers, who remain working in a system for extended periods, often for their entire careers. And they impose large costs on those who leave before reaching retirement eligibility--all in the hopes of encouraging them to stay.…
Descriptors: Retirement Benefits, Beginning Teachers, Public School Teachers, School Districts
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