High school, new, and low-achieving-school principals perceive significantly more difficulty recruiting and hiring the right teachers¶
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q2 i? Approximately 60 percent of high school principals versus about 40 percent of elementary principals state that difficulty recruiting and hiring the right teachers is a serious or somewhat a factor; new principals and bottom quartile principals also perceive significantly more difficulty. → Stoelinga 2008
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Stoelinga 2008¶
Stoelinga, S. R., with Hart, H. and Schalliol, D. (2008). The Work of Chicago Public Schools' Principals: Leading in a Complex Context with High Stakes. Consortium on Chicago School Research at the University of Chicago. https://consortium.uchicago.edu/publications/work-chicago-public-schools-principals
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2007 survey subgroup comparisons (Figures 9-14) report these statistically significant perception differences; bottom quartile high school principals also reported student body composition and neighborhood hindering recruitment, while top quartile principals reported them helping.
"Approximately 60 percent of high school principals state that difficulty recruiting and hiring the right teachers is a serious factor or somewhat of a factor. For elementary principals this number is about 40 percent."
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Related Claims¶
- Charter administrators reported greater difficulty recruiting and hiring teachers and much higher teacher turnover, but far less difficulty removing poor teachers, than non-charter administrators in 2017 — related
- Human-resource roadblocks rose sharply from 2009 to 2017: difficulty removing poor teachers increased from 39 to 48 percent, and concern over recruiting and hiring the right teachers nearly quadrupled from 12 to 44 percent — related
- Principals most commonly cited time for teacher planning, difficulty removing poor teachers, community social problems, apathetic parents, test-score pressure, and problem students as roadblocks — related
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High school, new, and low-achieving-school principals perceive significantly more difficulty recruiting and hiring the right teachers |
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High school, new, and low-achieving-school principals perceive significantly more difficulty recruiting and hiring the right teachers |
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