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Flipping classrooms will require even more support for teachers

States must leverage strategic pay to attract and retain top teaching talent, yet current compensation policies fall short. This report reveals that while teacher salaries are a critical tool for recruiting qualified and diverse educators, few states pay teachers more for working in hard-to-staff schools or subjects, incorporate performance-based pay, or reward relevant prior work experience. Most states leave pay decisions to individual districts, resulting in inconsistent and outdated pay structures. The report calls for clearer, better-funded policies that align teacher compensation with performance and staffing needs, ensuring competitive salaries that drive teacher quality and improve student outcomes.

We are failing to give children daily opportunities to engage with a broad spectrum of people and their identities, perspectives, and experiences; and some children see no reflection of themselves in their teachers.

Some suggest that teachers are “lured” out of the profession into more lucrative fields. But a new study of pre-pandemic data paints a more complex picture of who leaves the classroom and how much they earn afterward.

District incentives to recruit and retain teachers will likely fall short if they lack specific attention to the needs of hard-to-staff subjects and schools. In this District Trendline, we examine how large U.S. districts pay teachers differently based on district needs to fill these critical gaps.

We explore the research behind five key factors of effective high-impact tutoring programs.

Here’s what we learned about what’s going well and what’s been challenging in building a strong clinical practice experience, as well as which policies and supports could lead to better experiences.

The skyrocketing price of health insurance impacts both teachers and school districts. Here’s how some education leaders are keeping health insurance affordable for teachers.

Districts nationally are struggling to build strong pools of substitute teachers. Yet in 40% of the large districts we analyzed, entry-level substitute teachers are paid less than what they would earn hourly if they worked in retail.

A new study examines a program in Dallas—Accelerating Campus Excellence or ACE—that sought to boost teacher pay for stellar educators willing to teach in high-poverty schools. Compared to similar schools where they didn’t attract high-performing teachers with higher pay, the ACE schools produced dramatic results for students. But those results didn’t last.

Offering paid family leave is an important way to improve quality of life for educators.

Temporary gains accompanied by longer-term challenges.