| Title: | An examination of the movement of educators within and across three Midwest Region states |
| Description: | The Regional Educational Laboratory (REL) Midwest conducted a study on the mobility of teachers and administrators in public schools within and between Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. This study was the first to examine educator mobility within and among these three states using the same methodology across the states. The study used the staffing data for the 2005/06 through 2012/13 school years and data on school-level performance and demographics for the same school years from the three states. REL Midwest analyzed these data to identify mobility rates and mobility patterns over time, both within and across states. The study also examined whether different educator characteristics and the characteristics of the exited schools (that is, the schools educators moved from) were related to the odds that educators continuing their employment would change schools rather than stay employed in the same school. The study found that on average 6.8 percent of educators in Iowa, 9.3 percent in Minnesota, and 8.2 percent in Wisconsin moved to another school within state annually between 2006/07 and 2010/11. Teacher mobility rates were found to vary by subject areas and across regions within states. Less than 0.1 percent of educators in these three states moved to another of the three participating states between 2005/06 and 2011/12. Teachers were more likely to be mobile if they had less teaching experience, were in urban schools, or taught in schools with lower academic performance, fewer students, or more economically disadvantaged students. The relationships between these factors and principal mobility were less consistent. |
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| Cover Date: | November 2016 |
| Web Release: | November 15, 2016 |
| Print Release: | November 15, 2016 |
| Publication #: | REL 2017185 General Ordering Information |
| Center/Program: | REL |
| Associated Centers: | NCEE |
| Authors: | Michael Podgursky and Mark Ehlert: University of Missouri–Columbia; Jim Lindsay and Yinmei Wan: American Institutes for Research |
| Type of Product: | Making Connections |
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