Within-Year Teacher Turnover in Head Start and Children’s School Readiness

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Anna Markowitz, UCLA

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Project Citation: 

Markowitz, Anna. Within-Year Teacher Turnover in Head Start and Children’s School Readiness. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2024-03-11. https://doi.org/10.3886/E198924V1

Project Description

Summary:  View help for Summary Teachers in early childhood education (ECE) settings are central to providing children with high-quality experiences that promote both early development and long-term wellbeing; unfortunately, rates of teacher turnover are high in ECE settings. There are strong theoretical reasons to assume turnover is negatively linked with children’s academic and socio-emotional development, but few empirical studies test this hypothesis. Using an econometric fixed effects approach in two waves of data from the nationally-representative Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey, this study provides the first national estimate of the relationship between within-year lead teacher turnover and children’s development in Head Start. I find an annual within-year turnover rate of ~9%, about twice that of K-12, and that turnover is negatively associated with children’s language outcomes alongside suggestive evidence for behavioral outcomes.
Funding Sources:  View help for Funding Sources AERA NSF (NSF-DRL)

Scope of Project

Subject Terms:  View help for Subject Terms turnover; early childhood education; Head Start
Geographic Coverage:  View help for Geographic Coverage Nationally representative
Time Period(s):  View help for Time Period(s) 2006 – 2010 (2 waves of nationally representative data: 2006, 2009)


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