The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) recently published multiple data sets looking at undergraduate admissions and learner outcomes, teacher turnover, staffing vacancies and post-pandemic learning recovery.
Data on Secondary Staffing Vacancies and Learning Recovery: NCES published a set of data from the School Pulse Panel (SPP) from October 2023 featuring more than 1,400 schools across the 50 states and the District of Columbia. The findings focused on public school staffing vacancies, learning recovery and tutoring programs.
CTE was among the subject areas with the highest percentage of vacancies, at 5%, along with ESL or bilingual education (5%) and special education (6%). In addition, schools reported needing to have non-teaching staff take on other duties (42%), needing to have teaching staff take on other duties (40%), increased class sizes (28%) and sharing staff and/or teachers with other schools (24%).
When investigating post-pandemic learning, researchers found that 44% of students did not begin the 2023-24 school year at grade level in at least one academic subject, showing improvement from the 49% reported at the start of the prior school year.
Data on Undergraduate Students: The Integrated Postsecondary Education System (IPEDS) has released a collection of data sets on recent admissions and outcomes trends.
- Admissions:
- In fall 2022 institutions reported receiving more than 13.1 million first-time applicants, up from 12.1 million in fall 2021.
- Institutions admitted almost 60% of the first-time postsecondary applicants they received in fall 2022.
- Only 26 institutions indicated that work experience is required for admission.
- Outcomes:
- 23% of full-time, first-time enrolled in two-year institutions in 2018 graduated within two years, up to 41% within four years.
- 31% of students in the 2014-15 cohort had earned a degree or certificate within eight years.
Data on Teacher Turnover: NCES recently published a set of selected findings from the National Teacher and Principal Survey Teacher Follow-up Survey, which included over 8,500 public school teachers and looked at teacher turnover between the 2020-21 and 2021-22 school years. Analysts found that 84% remained at the same school, 8% moved to a different school and 8% left the profession all together.
In addition, among former teachers who voluntarily left the profession, 16% retired, 15% left for personal reasons, 13% left to pursue another position outside of K-12 teaching and 9% left for salary reasons.
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