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The Influence of School Administrators on Teacher Retention Decisions
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This paper explored the relationship between school contextual factors and teacher retention decisions in New York City and found that teachers' perceptions of the school administration had by far the greatest influence on teacher retention decision.Abstract:
This article explores the relationship between school contextual factors and teacher retention decisions in New York City. The methodological approach separates the effects of teacher characteristics from school characteristics by modeling the relationship between the assessments of school contextual factors by one set of teachers and the turnover decisions by other teachers in the same school. We find that teachers’ perceptions of the school administration has by far the greatest influence on teacher retention decisions. This effect of administration is consistent for first-year teachers and the full sample of teachers and is confirmed by a survey of teachers who have recently left teaching.read more
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How Context Matters in High-Need Schools: The Effects of Teachers’ Working Conditions on Their Professional Satisfaction and Their Students’ Achievement
TL;DR: In this article, the authors recognize the challenges posed by teacher turnover, and they pay a price when new teachers leave the profession after only 2 or 3 years in the profession and return to teach again.
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Teacher Turnover in High-Poverty Schools: What We Know and Can Do:
TL;DR: For example, this article found that teacher turnover has increased substantially in U.S. public schools, especially in those serving large portions of low-income students of color, over the past three decades.
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The Magnitude, Destinations, and Determinants of Mathematics and Science Teacher Turnover
Richard M. Ingersoll,Henry May +1 more
TL;DR: This article examined the magnitude, destinations, and determinants of mathematics and science teacher turnover, using data from the nationally representative Schools and Staffing Survey and the Teeword Teacher Turnover Survey.
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Can Professional Environments in Schools Promote Teacher Development? Explaining Heterogeneity in Returns to Teaching Experience:
Matthew A. Kraft,John P. Papay +1 more
TL;DR: This work examines the role of school context in explaining differences in teacher improvement over time using a measure of the professional environment constructed from teachers responses to state-wide surveys, and shows that teachers working in more supportive professional environments improve their effectiveness more over time.
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Where Should Student Teachers Learn to Teach? Effects of Field Placement School Characteristics on Teacher Retention and Effectiveness.
TL;DR: This paper found that learning to teach in easier-to-staff field placement schools has positive effects on teacher retention and student achievement gains, even for teachers who end up working in the hardest-tostaff schools.
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Teacher Turnover and Teacher Shortages: An Organizational Analysis
TL;DR: This paper investigated the possibility that there are other factors, such as organizational characteristics and conditions of schools, that are driving teacher turnover and, in turn, school staffing problems, and the results of the analysis indicate that school staffing problem is not primarily due to teacher shortages, in the technical sense of an insufficient supply of qualified teachers.
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Reassessing the Principal's Role in School Effectiveness: A Review of Empirical Research, 1980-1995
Philip Hallinger,Ronald H. Heck +1 more
TL;DR: This article reviewed the empirical literature on the relationship between the principal's role and school effectiveness during the period from 1980 to 1995 and specifically focused on the conceptual underpinnings of several theoretical models to study the role, relationship between models and methods of investigation, an4 consequently, to what has been learned about the nature of the principal impact.
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Teacher Recruitment and Retention: A Review of the Recent Empirical Literature
TL;DR: This article reviewed the recent empirical literature on teacher recruitment and retention published in the United States and examined the characteristics of individuals who enter and remain in the teaching profession, characteristics of schools and districts that successfully recruit and retain teachers, and the types of policies that show evidence of efficacy in recruiting and retaining teachers.
Balanced Leadership: What 30 years of research tells us about the effect of leadership on student achievement
TL;DR: Waters et al. as mentioned in this paper presented a meta-analysis of research on student characteristics and teacher and school practices associated with school effectiveness to provide guidance on the curricular, instructional, and teaching practices that, when applied appropriately, can result in increased student achievement.