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Cabral, Leana; Mawhinney, Lynnette; Pierce, Jill; Hachenburg, Carmina – Research for Action, 2022
With support from the William Penn Foundation, RFA sought to further examine and understand Black teacher attrition and retention in Philadelphia, and promising strategies and initiatives that can promote the retention of Black teachers in the city and elsewhere. In totality, the project includes qualitative research that centers the perspectives…
Descriptors: African American Teachers, Faculty Mobility, Teacher Persistence, Teaching Experience
Rodriguez, Luis A.; Farley, Chelsea; Merrill, Lisa; Gillard, Reggie – Research Alliance for New York City Schools, 2022
For many years, schools in the Bronx have faced challenges related to teacher recruitment and retention, as well as student achievement. In 2017, to address these issues, the New York City Department of Education (NYC DOE) launched the Teacher and School Leaders Bronx Human Capital Initiative (TSL). TSL was designed to help build a "highly…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Human Capital, Labor Force Development, Teacher Competencies
Eddins, Mary; Pileggi, Molly – Research for Action, 2021
Teacher mobility, or teacher turnover, has long garnered attention as a critical educational equity gap. This attention is warranted as, within schools, teachers have the single greatest impact on student achievement. The unprecedented interruptions to school-based learning and the trials of navigating remote and hybrid instruction due to the…
Descriptors: Counties, School Districts, Faculty Mobility, Labor Turnover
Pierce, Jill C.; Shaw-Amoah, Anna; Lapp, David – Research for Action, 2020
Educators are centrally important in the fight for racial justice and access to high-quality education. This has never been more true than in the age of the COVID-19 pandemic, as the public acknowledges the crucial role that our public school teachers play in the well-being of our children and of our society at large. Yet our teacher workforce is…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Public Schools, Teacher Shortage, Teacher Recruitment
Research for Action, 2018
Research shows that process quality in early childhood education (ECE) programs--specifically teacher-child interactions--is the strongest predictor of children's gains in learning and development. Due to a number of factors associated with the city's early childhood infrastructure and the budgets of the current Head Start grants, it has been…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Preschool Teachers, Teacher Student Relationship, Early Intervention
Stohr, Alison; Fontana, Jason; Lapp, David – Research for Action, 2018
Research shows that exposure to teachers of color has a positive impact on students of all races, and particularly on students of color. Despite these positive effects, only 4% of Pennsylvania's teachers are people of color. This percentage is not only one of the lowest in the nation, but it is also starkly disparate from Pennsylvania's own…
Descriptors: Minority Group Teachers, Teacher Recruitment, Minority Group Students, Teacher Persistence