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Overview

Richard M. Ingersoll is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on education, with a notable emphasis on teacher education and leadership studies, diverse educational innovations studies, collaborative teaching and inclusion, school choice and performance, parental involvement in education, and teacher professional development and motivation.

The main fields of study in their work include social sciences and agricultural and biological sciences, with education and general agricultural and biological sciences as specific subfields. Their research contributions have been published in several venues, including:

  • Proceedings of the 2022 AERA Annual Meeting
  • Educational Administration Quarterly
  • Education Sciences
  • Phi Delta Kappan

Recent papers by Richard M. Ingersoll include:

  • Teacher Shortages and Turnover in Rural Schools in the US: An Organizational Analysis (2023, Educational Administration Quarterly)
  • The Demographic Transformation of the Teaching Force in the United States (2021, Education Sciences)
  • The rural teacher shortage (2023, Phi Delta Kappan)
  • Trends in the Recruitment, Employment, and Retention of Teachers From Underrepresented Racial-Ethnic Groups (2022, Proceedings of the 2022 AERA Annual Meeting)
  • The Effects of Education and Preparation on Beginning Teacher Attrition: A Longitudinal Study (2022, Proceedings of the 2022 AERA Annual Meeting)

Frequent collaborators in their research include Henry Tran, Elizabeth Merrill, Daniel W. Stuckey, Gregory J. Collins, and Brandon Harrison. These partnerships span various topics associated with teacher workforce issues and educational innovations.

Best Publications

  • Teacher Turnover and Teacher Shortages: An Organizational Analysis

    Richard M. Ingersoll

  • The Wrong Solution to the Teacher Shortage.

    Richard M. Ingersoll;Thomas M. Smith

  • The Impact of Induction and Mentoring Programs for Beginning Teachers: A Critical Review of the Research

    Richard M. Ingersoll;Michael Strong

  • What Are the Effects of Induction and Mentoring on Beginning Teacher Turnover

    Thomas M. Smith;Richard M. Ingersoll

  • The Teacher Shortage: A Case of Wrong Diagnosis and Wrong Prescription

    Richard M. Ingersoll

  • Who Controls Teachers' Work?: Power and Accountability in America's Schools

    Richard M. Ingersoll

  • The Problem of Underqualified Teachers in American Secondary Schools

    Richard M. Ingersoll

  • Teacher Turnover, Teacher Shortages, and the Organization of Schools

    Richard Ingersoll

  • Beginning Teacher Induction: What the Data Tell Us

    Richard M. Ingersoll

  • The Impact of Mentoring on Teacher Retention: What the Research Says

    Richard Ingersoll;M. Kralik

  • Do Teacher Induction and Mentoring Matter

    Richard M. Ingersoll;Thomas M. Smith

  • The Magnitude, Destinations, and Determinants of Mathematics and Science Teacher Turnover

    Richard M. Ingersoll;Henry May

  • Recruitment, Retention, and the Minority Teacher Shortage

    Richard Ingersoll;Henry May

  • Why Do High-Poverty Schools Have Difficulty Staffing Their Classrooms with Qualified Teachers?

    Richard M Ingersoll

  • The Status of Teaching as a Profession

    Richard Ingersoll;Elizabeth Merrill

  • Is There Really a Teacher Shortage

    Richard Ingersoll

  • The Teacher Shortage: Myth or Reality?

    Richard M. Ingersoll

  • Who's Teaching Our Children?.

    Richard Ingersoll;Lisa Merrill

  • Retaining Teachers: How Preparation Matters

    Richard Ingersoll;Lisa Merrill;Henry May

  • Seven Trends: The Transformation of the Teaching Force

    Richard Ingersoll;Lisa Merrill;Daniel Stuckey

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