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MeShelley Sams – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study is aimed at understanding the circumstances that contribute to teacher retention and attrition in urban schools in the Southwestern United States. Harris et al. (2019) reported that at the national level, 16% of all teachers attrit yearly. Attrition contributes to the increasing teacher shortage problem that many districts face. The…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Middle School Teachers, High School Teachers, Teacher Persistence
Earp, Mary – ProQuest LLC, 2022
At the foundation of this research was the supposition that when principals implement positive leadership practices, they create an educational climate that encourages highly qualified teachers to continue to work in economically disadvantaged school districts by increasing teacher morale and perceived teacher efficacy. The purpose of the research…
Descriptors: Teacher Morale, Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Persistence, Teaching Conditions
Candis M. Thomas – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Historically, urban public schools with high concentrations of high-poverty, low-achieving students, report having difficulty attracting, developing, and retaining qualified and effective teachers (Ansley et al, 2019; Petty et.al, 2012; Simon & Johnson, 2015; Wilder, 2012). A common explanation to the attrition crisis in urban schools is that…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Urban Schools, Well Being
Rivero, Maria del Rosario – ProQuest LLC, 2013
In Chile, as many other countries, understanding how high-qualified teachers are distributed across schools and which are the relationships that may lead to teachers' potential sorting are key aspect of the teacher labor market and it is central to addressing student achievement gaps. The first paper uses rich new data on all elementary public…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Competencies, Labor Market
Hill, Kendra A. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This exploratory study examined the relationships between five predictor variables identified by the literature (age, years of special education teaching experience, level of emotional behavioral disorders (EBD) preparation, principal support, and principal feedback) and two higher order terms (age and years of special education teaching…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Fatigue (Biology), Day Schools, Teacher Burnout
Claybon, Karen M. – ProQuest LLC, 2008
According to the Texas State Board of Education in 2002, 60% of teachers in Texas classrooms quit the profession after only five years in the classroom. In 1998-99, Texas filled over 63,000 teaching positions. Most vacant positions resulted from existing teachers retiring (11,000) or leaving the profession (46,600). A recent study in Texas…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Ethnicity, Teaching (Occupation), Recognition (Achievement)