Recruitment and retention of teaching staff is an activity integral to school improvement efforts under SIG, and the article presents findings on it in rural schools¶

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Subclaims¶

q2 i? The article presents findings on the recruitment and retention of teaching staff, which it describes as integral to school improvement efforts under SIG. → Linda Rosenberg 2015

Evidence¶

Linda Rosenberg 2015¶

Linda Rosenberg, Megan Davis Christianson, Megan Hague Angus. (2015). Improvement Efforts in Rural Schools: Experience of Nine Schools Receiving School Improvement Grants. Peabody Journal of Education, vol. 90, issue 2. https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/hpje20/90/2 doi:10.1080/0161956x.2015.1022109

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The article's stated focus for its nine rural SIG schools includes presenting "findings on the recruitment and retention of teaching staff, an activity integral to school improvement efforts under SIG." No effect size is printed.

"and presents findings on the recruitment and retention of teaching staff, an activity integral to school improvement efforts under SIG."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• Administrators in eight of nine rural SIG schools reported rural-setting factors, chiefly long teacher commutes (six schools) or isolated communities (four), that hampered teacher recruitment or retention — a narrower finding that bears on this claim
• Traditional salary schedules may not reward effective teaching or give the most effective teachers incentives to work in high-need schools, motivating performance-based compensation — related
• Rural school settings' distance from urban areas and long commutes can exacerbate the challenges struggling rural schools face — related
• Talent-system reforms, including an experience-based salary scale and earlier recruitment, coincided with retention of over 90 percent of effective teachers — related
• Limited human capital is one of the biggest challenges in rural school turnaround, making SIG staff-replacement requirements often neither possible nor desirable — related
• A Alabama coalition's provider-recruitment effort coincided with FCPK access rising from 7.9% to 21.4% of children in central Alabama between 2014 and 2018 — related
• Most surveyed districts used federal recovery funds to recruit and retain teachers, including creating new positions that increased staffing needs — related
• Rural schools report school nurse shortages at more than twice the urban rate — related