Teacher attrition is a significant problem facing schools, with a large percentage of teachers
leaving the profession within their first few years. Given the need to retain high-quality …

More than 20 years into public charter school implementation, the US experience offers
many lessons to help inform policymakers and others about how to achieve the best …

Market reforms in education are part of the educational policy landscape in many countries.
Central to arguments for market reforms is the idea that competition and choice will spur …

Educational Change and the Political Process brings together key ideas on both the system
of educational policy and the policy process in the United States. It provides students with a …

Policymakers often advance charter schools as an education reform model that can offer
more diverse educational alternatives for families. Yet, as these schools compete for …

This article outlines different forms of education privatization operating globally, examines
their prevalence within the United States, and analyzes whether student marginalization and …

US charter schools are publicly funded through state school finance formulas that often
mirror the traditional public school finance systems. While charter school advocates and …

Public concern about pervasive inequalities in traditional public schools, combined with
growing political, parental, and corporate support, has created the expectation that charter …

The academic success of any school depends on its teachers. However, relatively little
research exists on the qualities principals value in teacher hiring, and we know almost …

This chapter provides a brief review of the literature on educator stress and attrition, while
focusing primarily on differences in attrition rates among Texas teachers who worked at a …