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Modern Language Association, 2024
The Association of Departments of English (ADE) Ad Hoc Committee on English Majors' Career Preparation and Outcomes was charged with reporting on career outcomes for English majors and minors; gathering case studies and other forms of evidence of departments' effective strategies and curricular innovations for working with students on career…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, English Instruction, Majors (Students), Career Development
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Ya-Ling Chiu; Li Xu; Yuan-Teng Hsu; Jying-Nan Wang – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2024
Soft skills have become a critical factor in enhancing individual employability. A deeper understanding of the specific soft skills valued by employers in various types of enterprises enables higher education institutions to more precisely cultivate these qualities in students. This study focuses on 15 essential soft skill indicators categorized…
Descriptors: Soft Skills, Employer Attitudes, Employment Potential, Education Work Relationship
Greenberg, Erica; Nelson, Victoria; Doromal, Justin B.; Sandstrom, Heather; Bose, Soumita; Lauderback, Eleanor – Urban Institute, 2023
The District of Columbia Early Childhood Educator Pay Equity Fund provides large and sustainable wage supplements for early childhood educators working in child care. Synthesizing qualitative evidence from 11 key informants, including DC early childhood education leaders, advocates, and implementation partners; 39 parents and legal guardians of…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Teachers, Salary Wage Differentials, Promotion (Occupational), Teacher Salaries
Mulvey, Patrick; Pold, Jack – AIP Statistical Research Center, 2023
Astronomy PhD recipients generally follow three main outcomes after receiving their degrees: they accept a postdoctoral position, a non-postdoctoral temporary position, or a potentially permanent position. To learn more about these outcomes, AIP annually asked new astronomy PhDs about their immediate post-degree outcomes. For the classes of 2018,…
Descriptors: Astronomy, Doctoral Degrees, Outcomes of Education, Departments
Emily R. Wiegand; David McQuown; Robert M. Goerge – Administration for Children & Families, 2023
Child care and early education (CCEE) educators typically have low levels of compensation; limited opportunities for education, training, and professional development; inconsistent working conditions; and high levels of stress and burnout. There are also high rates of job turnover, which can strain remaining educators and decrease the quality of…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Child Care Centers, Child Care Occupations, Early Childhood Teachers
Public School Forum of North Carolina, 2019
Each year, policymakers, educators, and the general public engage in debates around the statewide average teacher pay figure that the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (DPI) publishes on its website and reports to the National Education Association. These debates take up the important consideration of whether or not teachers are…
Descriptors: Teacher Salaries, Data Analysis, School Districts, Poverty
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King, Ronnel B.; Chiu, Ming Ming; Du, Hongfei – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2022
Students' school belonging is critical to overall functioning. Most past studies of school belonging's antecedents focused on individual-level and proximal environmental factors, neglecting broader socioecological factors such as income inequality. Hence, this study examined whether income inequality is associated with students' school belonging.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Income, Salary Wage Differentials, Group Membership
Fischer, Adrienne; Erwin, Ben; Pechota, Damion; Syverson, Eric – Education Commission of the States, 2022
Schools continue to face specific and persistent teacher shortages in certain subjects, such as upper-level math and special education, and in certain schools, including historically under-resourced schools and rural schools. Declining participation in teacher preparation programs, coupled with high turnover in the profession, suggests that a…
Descriptors: Teacher Recruitment, Teacher Persistence, Teacher Shortage, Minority Group Teachers
Alyssa LaPatriello – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This current dissertation used case study (Yin, 2018) to examine United States female college students' perceptions of their financial literacy, especially with respect to their debt accumulation and the gender wage gap, at a public, 4-year institution in New Jersey. It answered the following research questions: How are student debt, financial…
Descriptors: Debt (Financial), Student Attitudes, Financial Literacy, Females
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Friedrich, Anett; Hirtz, Sandra – Journal of Education and Work, 2021
Analysing wage differentials due to educational investments within occupations can explain the persistent wage inequality in western industrialised countries, such as Germany. This article contributes to the discussion by examining occupation-specific variance in wage returns for men working full-time in Western Germany between 1976 and 2010. We…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Attainment, Salary Wage Differentials, Occupations
Garver, Karin – National Institute for Early Education Research, 2020
An all too common complaint in the early childhood field is that low salaries for preschool teachers and lack of pay parity with K-12 teachers in the public schools creates serious problems. These include low morale and difficulty recruiting and retaining strong preschool teachers. State policies can contribute to or resolve these problems in…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Teachers, Teacher Salaries, Salary Wage Differentials, Faculty Mobility
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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
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Allais, Stephanie – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2022
This paper examines three interrelated factors outside of formal provision of technical and vocational education and training (TVET) in sub-Saharan Africa that have undermined TVET systems. The first is the process, pace, and levels of industrialisation, which has had a direct effect on TVET provision: low numbers of well-paying jobs requiring…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Technical Education, Industrialization
Delisle, Jason; Cohn, Jason – Urban Institute, 2022
When the Obama administration implemented the first gainful employment (GE) rule in 2014 to protect students from education credentials that lead to unaffordable debts, virtually all programs at public institutions passed the test. The Biden administration is developing its own GE rule after the Trump administration repealed the Obama-era rule. A…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Employment Level, Work Environment, Quality of Working Life
Mallika Thomas – W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2024
Using the historical random assignment of MBA students to peer groups at a top business school in the United States, I study the effect of the gender composition of a student's peers on the gender pay gap at graduation and long-term labor market outcomes. I find that a 10 percentage point increase in the share of male peers leads to a 2.1 percent…
Descriptors: Business Schools, Masters Degrees, Masters Programs, Business Administration
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