Public Support for Educators and In-Person Instruction during the COVID-19 Pandemic. EdWorkingPaper No. 22-575

Autor/inn/en	Houston, David M.; Steinberg, Matthew P.
Institution	Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University
Titel	Public Support for Educators and In-Person Instruction during the COVID-19 Pandemic. EdWorkingPaper No. 22-575
Quelle	(2022), (49 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	In Person Learning; COVID-19; Pandemics; School Closing; Political Attitudes; Unions; Teachers; Predictor Variables; Decision Making; Mortality Rate; Correlation; Teacher Attitudes; National Surveys; Educational Attitudes; Teacher Salaries; Public Opinion; Kindergarten; Elementary Secondary Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? School closings; Schule; Schließung; Schließung (von Schulen); Political attitude; Politische Einstellung; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Prädiktor; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Mortalitätsrate; Korrelation; Lehrerverhalten; Educational attitude; Bildungsverhalten; Erziehungseinstellung; Lehrerbesoldung; Lehrervergütung; Öffentliche Meinung
Abstract	In spring 2020, nearly every U.S. public school closed at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Existing evidence suggests that local political partisanship and teachers' union strength were better predictors of fall 2020 school re-opening status than COVID case and death rates. We replicate and extend these analyses using data collected over the entirety of the 2020-21 academic year. We reaffirm that local political partisanship and teachers' union strength were reliable predictors of school re-opening decisions. We also demonstrate that Covid case and death rates were meaningfully associated with initial rates of in-person instruction. We show that all three factors--COVID, partisanship, and teachers' unions--became less predictive of in-person instruction as the school year continued. We then leverage data from two nationally representative surveys of Americans' attitudes toward education and identify an as-yet-undiscussed factor that predicts in-person instruction: public support for increasing teachers' salaries. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University. Brown University Box 1985, Providence, RI 02912. Tel: 401-863-7990; Fax: 401-863-1290; e-mail: AISR_Info@brown.edu; Web site: http://www.annenberginstitute.org
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01