This is a time of challenge for teachers with burgeoning workloads and unsustainable conditions, parental demands and challenging student behaviour. Within this climate of challenge, including that of teacher retention, education systems around the world have had to develop strategies to professionalise and improve the status of teaching. Divided…

Explore the powerful pedagogies and lived experiences of four Black women educators who challenge structural barriers to reimagine STEM education as a space of radical love, cultural sustainability, and justice. Grounded in a National Science Foundation-funded study, this volume documents how educators--through their stories, struggles, and…

Student retention is evidently low in Open and Distance Educational (ODE) institutions. This study comprehensively analyzes the student retention patterns and demotivational challenges of ODE systems. The registered students of the Bachelor of Science degree program of the faculty of natural sciences of the Open University of Sri Lanka, was chosen…

Mentored experiences have been well-documented in literature as an effective intervention to increase persistence and diversity in STEM for minoritized groups. However, an in-depth understanding of the mentored experiences of Black undergraduate students in a national laboratory environment is limited. In this study, the author used qualitative…

Background/Context: Professional learning (PL) for early childhood educators can promote change in practice and how they promote children's development (Egert et al., 2018; Rusby et al., 2016). Nonetheless, numerous barriers to in-person PL exist, including geographic constraints, inconvenient scheduling, and high costs (Elliot, 2017; Gable &…

Given the negative consequences of disengagement, such as disruptive behavior, low achievement, boredom, and high dropout rates, it seems imperative to seek mechanisms to determinants of student engagement in learning. This study is original because it combines Social Exchange Theory with evidence regarding engagement and distributed leadership to…

Academic recovery in higher educations refers to the processes and support systems put in place to help students struggling academically regain their academic standing and succeed in their studies. Using the Guiffrida conceptual model that advances culturally Tinto's Student Departure Theory, we narrate the voices of 20 self-identified Latine…

Worldwide, there were significant changes in university courses due to COVID-19. One was a rapid transition to online courses, described as emergency remote education. The purpose of this research was to examine how students' uncertainty avoidance (UA) affected their university commitment (UC) and whether their perceptions of emergency remote…

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to propose a research model based on the stimulus-organism-response (S-O-R) model to explore whether social media affordances and media richness as environmental stimuli to learners' involvement elicited by massive open online courses (MOOCs) can affect their learning persistence in MOOCs and, in turn, their…

This study investigated standard practices used by mentors participating in a new teacher mentoring program that encourages identified teachers to remain in the teaching profession. School districts nationwide spend time, money, and human resources addressing the significant turnover rate and the recruitment of highly qualified teachers. This…

Teacher turnover has been recognized as a significant problem in the education worldwide. This study focuses on exploring reasons behind the turnover intentions, and persistence of such intentions in 5-year follow-up among Finnish teachers. Longitudinal survey data were collected from Finnish comprehensive school teachers in 2010 (T1 n = 2310) and…

Program "profiles" are one-page summaries that highlight the components of each teacher retention strategy or program. Similar to a logic model, program profiles make it easy to understand what components define the program; the direct results of the program component(s); and what the program is collecting, documenting, or measuring to…

A phenomenological study was conducted to identify the factors associated with job retention among teachers in secure residential treatment centers in Tennessee. Central to this investigation was the exploration of how residential teachers perceive they are supported in their position, how teachers in residential settings perceive the culture of…

Faculty diversity plays a key role in college student completion and can have a major impact on students' sense of belonging, retention rates, and persistence. This report examines faculty diversity relative to student diversity, as well as hiring equity, tenure equity, and changes in faculty representation over time for Black and Latino faculty…

It is estimated that over a third of college students switch majors at least once (Astorne-Figari & Speer, Economics of Education Review 70:75-93, 2019), but the impact of this switching behavior on students' pathways towards a science, technology, engineering, or math (STEM) degree are not well understood. In this study, using panel data from…