The teacher recruitment crisis: examining influential recruitment factors from a United States technology and engineering teacher preparation program

Economic Approaches to Teacher Recruitment and Retention

The quality of teaching in a school results from a range of factors, including available resources, curriculum, and instructional leadership, but it is also driven by the individuals who teach in each classroom. The staffing of teachers in schools, in turn, is a product of both recruitment and retention practices. This article describes how the choices of teachers and the actions of schools and...

Salary Incentives and Teacher Quality : The Effect of a District - Level Salary Increase on Teacher Recruitment

Research consistently shows that teacher quality is a powerful determinant of student achievement gains, yet, urban school districts often struggle to staff their schools with qualified teachers. This problem seems to begin with teacher recruitment. In order to improve teacher recruitment, a popular intervention for urban school districts is raising teacher salaries to improve the school distri...

Can a District-Level Teacher Salary Incentive Policy Improve Teacher Recruitment and Retention?

with the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, where she focuses on helping educators use research to drive improvement. Previously, she was a research fellow at PPIC, where she focused on teacher compensation, support, and accountability. She has worked as a researcher in the Center for Education Policy Analysis at Stanford University and the Center for Education Policy at SRI I...

Teacher Recruitment and Retention in Public and Private Schools

Private school salaries are substantially below those in public school systems. Nonetheless, private school heads are as satisfied as public school principals with the quality of their new teachers and substantially more satisfied with their experienced instructors. This difference remains after controlling for school and community characteristics and for the principal’s tenure and educational ...

Teacher Recruitment & Preparation in Nicaragua: Policy Options and Implications for Reform