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Direct linkWest, Justin J. – Journal of Research in Music Education, 2021
The purpose of this study was to evaluate music teacher professional development (PD) practice and policy in the United States between 1993 and 2012. Using data from the nationally representative Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS) spanning these 20 years, I examined music teacher PD participation by topic, intensity, relevance, and format; music…
Descriptors: Music Teachers, Faculty Development, Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education
Ernst, Jeremy V.; Williams, Thomas O.; Clark, Aaron C.; Kelly, Daniel P.; Sutton, Kevin – Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research, 2018
Over the past decade, teacher autonomy within the formal educational system has been a central topic of discussion among educational stakeholders. This study explored influence over school policy and classroom control (teacher autonomy) among in-service science, technology, and mathematics (STM) educators within the United States. The National…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Professional Autonomy, Elementary Secondary Education, School Policy
Download full textWarner-Griffin, Catharine; Noel, Amber; Tadler, Chrystine – National Center for Education Statistics, 2016
There are at least four ways teachers may enter a new school: directly after receiving a new degree, exiting a different career, transferring from another school or type of position in a school, or after a break from teaching. The data used in this report span 25 years, from 1987 to 2012, providing an overview of these four key sources of newly…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, National Surveys, Beginning Teachers, Experienced Teachers
McLaughlin, Donald; Drori, Gili – 2000
The Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS), conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), offers the most comprehensive picture available of the education system in the United States. The aim of this study is to show the potential value of a linkage between SASS and data on student academic achievement. To achieve this aim, the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Class Size, Elementary Secondary Education, Institutional Characteristics
National Center for Education Statistics, 2012
The Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS) is a system of related questionnaires that provide descriptive data on the context of elementary and secondary education and policymakers a variety of statistics on the condition of education in the United States. The SASS system covers a wide range of topics from teacher demand, teacher and principal…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Teacher Surveys, School Surveys, Elementary Secondary Education
Sparks, Dinah; Malkus, Nat – National Center for Education Statistics, 2016
This report uses teacher responses to the Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS) public and private school teacher questionnaires from the 2003-04, 2007-08, and 2011-12 school years. SASS is a system of related questionnaires that provide descriptive data on the context of elementary and secondary education in the United States. The SASS system covers…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Private Schools, Job Satisfaction, Teachers
Jaquith, Ann; Mindich, Dan; Wei, Ruth Chung; Darling-Hammond, Linda – Learning Forward (NJ), 2010
Policy shapes practice, and the increasingly important realm of professional development is no exception. In order to identify effective professional development policies and strategies, a Stanford University research team examined the policy frameworks supporting high levels of professional development activity in four states. The…
Descriptors: Evidence, Research Reports, Policy Analysis, State Policy
Goldhaber, Dan; Walch, Joe – Education Next, 2014
The quality of the teacher workforce in the United States is of considerable concern to education stakeholders and policymakers. Numerous studies show that student academic success depends in no small part on access to high-quality teachers. Many pundits point to the fact that in the United States, teachers tend not to be drawn from the top of the…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Academic Achievement, Accountability, Trend Analysis
Goolsby, Annie J. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study utilized a contemporary approach to qualitative research, the descriptive survey design, to discover whether a diverse workforce was a major influence in producing a rural Blue Ribbon School. The population represented the school systems of a county located in the West South Central region of the United States. In this study, the terms…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Surveys, Labor Force, Rural Schools
Boe, Erling E. – 1996
A shortage of teachers to staff primary and secondary schools is a common occurrence internationally. The fact of, or potential for, teacher shortages is a major consideration in any nation's aspirations of attaining, or maintaining, an educational system of high quality. To study and understand the nature of teacher shortages, it is first…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Elementary Secondary Education, Employment Patterns, Models
McMillen, Marilyn Miles – 1989
This is the second in a series of early estimates for private elementary and secondary education in the United States reported by the National Center for Education Statistics. These estimates are key statistics reported early in the school year and include the numbers of teachers and students in private elementary and secondary schools and the…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education
Scheuren, Fritz; And Others – 1996
The Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS) is a periodic, integrated system of sample surveys on elementary and secondary schools in the United States that collects information on school and district administrators and teachers in public and private schools. This technical report is one in a series of methodological studies relating to the SASS of the…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Multivariate Analysis
National Center for Education Statistics (ED), Washington, DC. – 1994
The Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS) is an integrated system of surveys of public and private schools, school districts, school administrators, and teachers conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). This collection contains papers related to the SASS presented at meetings of the American Statistical Association in August…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Estimation (Mathematics), Interviews
