Since COVID-19 spread, teachers experienced even higher levels of stress and burnout than before the pandemic. This in turn has raised concerns about a potential exodus of teachers as well as teacher shortages, reducing teachers’ commitment to remain in the classroom.
Gema Zamarro, Andrew Camp, Dillon Fuchsman & Josh McGee
Gema Zamarro is a Professor of Education and 21st Century Endowed Chair in Teacher Quality, University of Arkansas. Andrew Camp is a Distinguished Doctoral Fellow and Graduate Assistant at the University of Arkansas’s Department of Education Reform. Dillon Fuchsman is a postdoctoral fellow in the Sinquefield Center for Applied Economic Research at Saint Louis University. Josh B. McGee is an economist who is a faculty member in the Department of Education Reform and associate director of the Office for Education Policy at the University of Arkansas.