ERIC Number: ED672950
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2025-May-6
Pages: 32
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Pre-K Teacher Well-Being, Pay, and Intentions to Leave in 2024: Findings from the American Pre-K Teacher Survey. American Educator Panels. Data Note. RR-A3279-5
Elizabeth D. Steiner; Anna Shapiro; Phoebe Rose Levine
RAND Corporation
The authors of this report present selected findings from the first American Pre-K Teacher Survey, administered to public school-based pre-kindergarten (pre-K) teachers in March and April 2024. The authors provide new information about the well-being, pay, and working conditions of public school-based pre-K teachers. The authors compare pre-K teachers' responses with those of public kindergarten through grade 12 (K-12) teachers, elementary grade teachers, and similar working adults. The authors also examine responses for subgroups of pre-K teachers for whom one might expect to see variation in pay or working conditions, such as teachers who taught part-day classes and those who taught full-day classes, teachers who were special education teachers and those who were general education teachers, and teachers who worked in early childhood education-only buildings and those who worked in K-12 buildings. Across pre-K and K-12 teachers, the authors also compared teachers' responses across experience, highest degrees earned, state collective bargaining status, and locale.
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Teacher Surveys, National Surveys, Teacher Persistence, Well Being, Teacher Salaries, Public School Teachers, Work Environment, Teacher Characteristics, Comparative Analysis
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Publication Type: Reports - Research
Education Level: Early Childhood Education; Preschool Education
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Language: English
Sponsor: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Authoring Institution: RAND Education and Labor
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