Evaluating Educator Preparation Programs: Candidate Exit Survey Data We are continuing our data series on public school teachers in Texas. To this point, we have looked at trends related to the quantity of public school teachers in Texas, the production of newly-certified teachers by type of Educator Preparation Program (EPP), and the quality of new…
Evaluating Teacher Quality: TEA Principal Survey Our two previous blog posts related to educator preparation reviewed data pertaining to the number of certified teachers in public schools in Texas, as well as the productivity of Educator Preparation Programs (EPP). This blog post turns our analytical lens to reviewing one measure of teacher quality in the…
Preparation of Educators in Texas In our previous blog post, we reviewed the last decade of data pertaining to the overall number of public educators in Texas by preparation route. Overall, Texas has seen an almost 13% increase in how many teachers are employed on a half-time or more basis from 2013 to 2022, as approximately…
The Educator Landscape in Texas EDITOR’S NOTE: We have paused the cost of attendance series that we introduced in the June 1 blog post. We will return to this series at a future date. The topic of public school teachers in America is prevalent across so many conversations. Be it K-12 administrators seeking to fill…
Costs of Attending Public Universities in America With May graduations completed and summer sessions in full swing, we begin looking toward the upcoming fall semester and the beginning of a new academic year. Eyes will also be focused on the legislative session set to begin in Texas on January 10, 2023. From policymakers to pundits…
Loan Repayment Status by Institutional Type This blog post represents the eighth and final contribution in our series on student loan debt. All previous blog posts can be found on our primary website. The previous blog post explored the relationship between loan repayment rate and the percentage of students from underserved/underrepresented student populations. The data…
Repayment of Federal Student Loans Over Time This blog post represents the seventh in our series on student loan debt. All previous blog posts can be found on our primary website. In our previous blog post, we started looking at trends in student loan repayment of beginning balances. Using the US Department of Education’s College Scorecard data, we…
Repayment of Federal Student Loans Over Time In our previous blog posts, we reviewed a number of trends in the federal student loan debt data that are included in the US Department of Education’s College Scorecard data. The College Scorecard student loan debt data are different from other sources, as the cohorts included in the data are comprised of…
Student Debt by Student Characteristics We continue our exploration into trends in the federal student loan debt included in the US Department of Education’s College Scorecard data. This blog post examines federal loan debt across various student characteristics, including gender, first-generation status, Pell status, and institutional specialty status. By way of review, the national average for four-year public…