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Coulter, Tricia; Zaleski, Ashley – Education Commission of the States (NJ3), 2007
This issue of "The Progress of Education Reform" highlights data and research on why teachers leave, how attrition affects teacher shortages across the nation and the importance of working conditions for student performance. It focuses on: (1) reasons for teacher turnover; (2) elements of working conditions related to teacher retention…
Descriptors: Teacher Persistence, Teacher Shortage, Educational Change, Faculty Mobility
Public Policy Forum, 2008
A survey of 414 child care providers in southeastern Wisconsin reveals that cost as well as low wages and lack of benefits for workers can constrain providers from pursuing improvements to child-care quality. Of survey respondents, approximately half of whom are home-based and half center-based, 13% have at least three of five structural factors…
Descriptors: Wages, Low Income, Achievement Tests, Public Policy