Educator labor markets
- .Categories: Teacher and Leader Development
Tags: Teacher hiring and retention, High schools, College readinessA stable learning environment is critical to high school reforms aimed at promoting postsecondary educational success. High teacher attrition can disrupt stable learning environments by uprooting student-teacher relationships and harming school climate. Educational leaders need greater… more →
- .Categories: Staffing, Finance, and Operations
Tags: Teacher hiring and retention, Human capital, TransportationResearch suggests that longer commute times can increase employee turnover probabilities by increasing job stress and reducing job attachment and embeddedness. Using administrative data from a midsized urban school district, we test whether teachers and school leaders with longer commute times… more →
- .Categories: Staffing, Finance, and Operations
Tags: Teacher hiring and retention, EquityWe examine the labor supply decisions of substitute teachers – a large, on-demand market with broad shortages and inequitable supply. In 2018, Chicago Public Schools implemented a targeted bonus program designed to reduce unfilled teacher absences in largely segregated Black… more →
- .Categories: Staffing, Finance, and Operations
Tags: Teacher well-being, Teacher hiring and retention, Educator perceptionsWe examine the state of the U.S. K-12 teaching profession over the last half century by compiling nationally representative time-series data on four interrelated constructs: occupational prestige, interest among students, the number of individuals preparing for entry, and on-the-job satisfaction… more →
- .Categories: Student Learning
Tags: Human capital, International and comparativeHow far is the world away from ensuring that every child obtains the basic skills needed to be internationally competitive? And what would accomplishing this mean for world development? Based on the micro data of international and regional achievement tests, we map achievement onto a common (… more →
- .Categories: Staffing, Finance, and Operations
Tags: Teacher hiring and retention, Human capitalImproving teacher selection is an important strategy for strengthening the quality of the teacher workforce. As districts adopt commercial teacher screening tools, evidence is needed to understand these tools’ predictive validity. We examine the relationship between Frontline Education’s… more →
- .Categories: Student Learning
Tags: Instructional practicesTeachers are among the most important inputs in the education production function. One mechanism by which teachers might affect student learning is through the grading standards they set for their classrooms. However, the effects of grading standards on student outcomes are relatively… more →
- .Categories: Teacher and Leader Development
Tags: Teacher well-being, Teacher hiring and retentionThe burnout, stress, and work-life balance challenges faced by teachers have received renewed interest due to the myriad disruptions and changes to K-12 schooling brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic. However, even prior to the pandemic relatively little was known about teachers’ time use… more →
- .Categories: Staffing, Finance, and Operations
Tags: Teacher hiring and retentionTeachers are critical to student learning, but adequately staffing classrooms has been challenging in many parts of the country. Even though teacher shortages are being reported across the U.S., teacher shortages are poorly understood. Determining and addressing teacher shortages is difficult… more →
- .Categories: Methods
Tags: Leadership, PrincipalsSchool principals are viewed as critical actors to improve student outcomes, but there remain important methodological questions about how to measure principals’ effects. We propose a framework for measuring principals’ contributions to student outcomes and apply it empirically using data from… more →
- .Categories: Staffing, Finance, and Operations
Tags: Teacher hiring and retention, Human capitalWhat happens when employers screen their employees but only observe a subset of output? We specify a model with heterogeneous employees and show that their response to the screening affects output in both the probationary period and the post-probationary period. The post-probationary impact is… more →
- .Categories: Teacher and Leader Development
Tags: Teacher hiring and retentionPrior work on teacher candidates in Washington State has shown that about two thirds of individuals who trained to become teachers between 2005 and 2015 and received a teaching credential did not enter the state’s public teaching workforce immediately after graduation, while about one third… more →
- .Categories: Student Learning
Tags: Student engagement, Student disciplineWe examine the dynamic nature of student-teacher match quality by studying the effect of having a teacher for more than one year. Using data from Tennessee and panel methods, we find that having a repeat teacher improves achievement and decreases absences, truancy, and suspensions. These results… more →
- .Categories: Staffing, Finance, and Operations
Tags: Teacher hiring and retention, School reform, EquityKnowing how policy-induced salary schedule changes affect teacher recruitment and retention will significantly advance our understanding of how resources matter for K-12 student learning. This study sheds light on this issue by estimating how legislative funding changes in Washington state in… more →
- .Categories: Policy, Politics, and Governance
Tags: School districts, EquityWhat guidance does research provide school districts about how to improve system performance and increase equity? Despite over 30 years of inquiry on the topic of effective districts, existing frameworks are relatively narrow in terms of disciplinary focus (primarily educational leadership… more →
- .Categories: Staffing, Finance, and Operations
Tags: Teacher hiring and retention, Covid-19 recovery, Human capitalThe unprecedented challenges of teaching during COVID-19 prompted fears of a mass exodus from the profession. We examine the extent to which these fears were realized using administrative records of Massachusetts teachers between 2015-16 and 2021-22. Relative to pre-pandemic levels, average… more →
- .Categories: Staffing, Finance, and Operations
Tags: Teacher hiring and retention, Human capitalTexas reduced new teacher preparation requirements in 2001 to allow more alternate paths to licensure. Within five years, this policy change resulted in over half the state’s new teachers being alternatively licensed.
- .Categories: Staffing, Finance, and Operations
Tags: Teacher hiring and retentionOver the last two decades, twenty-two states have moved away from traditional defined benefit (DB) pension systems and toward pension plan structures like the defined contribution (DC) plans now prevalent in the private sector. Others are considering such a reform as it is seen as a means of… more →
- .Categories: Pathways to and Through Postsecondary
Tags: Career and technical education, Returns to education and skillsWe estimate the education and earnings returns to enrolling in technical two-year degree programs at community colleges in Missouri. A unique feature of the Missouri context is the presence of a highly regarded, nationally ranked technical college: State Technical College of Missouri (State Tech… more →
- .Categories: Staffing, Finance, and Operations
Tags: Teacher hiring and retention, Equity, Race, ethnicity, and educationWe use publicly available, longitudinal data from Washington state to study the extent to which three interrelated processes—teacher attrition from the state teaching workforce, teacher mobility between teaching positions, and teacher hiring for open positions—contribute to “teacher quality gaps… more →