Teacher Absenteeism in Urban Schools

Cost Analysis of Teacher Absenteeism in Nigerian Secondary Schools

The paper was based on the contention that teacher absenteeism is costly, which could lead to wastage in the school system. Hence, the paper analyzed the cost of un-authorized teacher absenteeism in Nigerian secondary schools between 1997 and 1999, i.e. two academic sessions of 1997/98 98/99. The analysis revealed that the cost of absenteeism was relatively high when the dwindling financial all...

Teacher absenteeism in secondary education

Solutions to Teacher Absenteeism in Rural Government Primary Schools in India: A Comparison of Management Approaches

Teacher absenteeism in government primary schools in rural India is a huge and well-documented phenomenon. Using Christopher Hood’s cultural-theory framework of doing public management, this paper analyses this problem from four different perspectives, i.e. the hierarchist, egalitarian, individualist and fatalist management approach. The paper proceeds with a discussion of three innovative stra...

Taking Attendance: Teacher Absenteeism across School Types

Employee absenteeism has long been studied in the areas of industrial organization and human resource management, but only recently have researchers in education policy paid attention to teacher absenteeism because of its effects on student achievement. Even then, no study has focused on comparing teacher-absence rates across school types. This study fills this gap in the literature by using a ...

A Quest for “The Very Best”: Teacher Recruitment in Six Successful, High-Poverty, Urban Schools

This qualitative analysis of teacher teams is part of a larger, comparative case study, “Developing Human Capital Within Schools,” conducted by the Project on the Next Generation of Teachers. Within one city, we interviewed 142 teachers and administrators in six highpoverty schools (three charter and three district), all of which had achieved the highest ranking in the state’s accountability sy...