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2025 Arkansas Education Administrator Survey: Leading Through Change
Link to the full report: Leading Through Change Summary: In Spring 2025, we surveyed principals and superintendents to understand their job satisfaction and well-being and to get their perspectives...
Explaining the 2025 Arkansas Merit Teacher Incentive Fund Program
By Josh B. McGee The LEARNS Act (Act 237 of the 2023 Regular Session) established the Merit Teacher Incentive Fund Program—commonly known as Merit Pay—to recognize and reward Arkansas’s outstanding...
2024–25 Arkansas Teacher Retention: Statewide Stability Amid Ongoing Local Challenges
by: Josh McGee, Roy McKenzie, and Gema Zamarro
The Arkansas Teacher Merit Pay Program: A Game-Changer for Educators!
The Arkansas Teacher Merit Pay Program: A Game-Changer for Educators! By Ashley Daniel Big news for educators across Arkansas: the LEARNS Act has officially established and implemented the Merit...
2024 Arkansas Teacher Workforce Report
Link: 2024 Arkansas Teacher Workforce Report The LEARNS Act mandates the Arkansas Department of Education's Division of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) to produce an annual report on the...
Administrators’ Views of Teacher Salary Changes Under the Arkansas LEARNS Act
Link: Administrators’ Views of Teacher Salary Changes Under the Arkansas LEARNS Act SUMMARY We surveyed superintendents and principals statewide to understand their perspectives on the salary...
Wellbeing and Working Conditions in the Arkansas Teacher Workforce
Link: Wellbeing and Working Conditions in the Arkansas Teacher Workforce In the spring of the 2023-2024 school year, we developed the Arkansas Teacher Survey in collaboration with the Arkansas...
Explaining the 2024 Arkansas Merit Teacher Incentive Fund Program
by Josh B. McGee The LEARNS Act (Act 237 of the 2023 Regular Session) established the Merit Teacher Incentive Fund Program, also known as Merit Pay, to recognize and reward Arkansas’s outstanding...
2023 & 2024 Novice Teacher Survey Report
This report contains a summary of results from a survey administered in the spring of 2023 & 2024 to teachers in their first, second, or third year of teaching. The survey focuses on the support...
2023 & 2024 Education Preparation Program (EPP) Completer Supervisor Survey Report
This report contains a summary of results from a survey administered to the supervisors of 2022 and 2023 Education Preparation Program (EPP) completers in the spring of the year after they...
2023 & 2024 Educator Preparation Program (EPP) Completer Survey Report
This report contains a summary of results from a survey administered to 2022 and 2023 Educator Preparation Program completers in the spring of the year after they completed. Click here to read a...
Do Four-Day School Weeks Help Retain Teachers?
Districts in Arkansas are increasingly moving towards four-day school week calendar with hopes of improving teacher retention and recruitment. This blog post summarizes a new working paper that examines how effective the strategy is and provides some guidance for policymakers.
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