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Thursday, January 20, 2011

Daily Kos: Why Great Teachers Quit: And How We Might Stop the Exodus

Daily Kos: Why Great Teachers Quit: And How We Might Stop the Exodus

Why Great Teachers Quit: And How We Might Stop the Exodus

If teachers, parents, school boards, administrators, community members, and lawmakers can listen to each other and work on this problem together, we can lessen the tide of teacher attrition, ultimately improving the learning and working environment in schools for everyone. (p. 156)

Those are the final words of this new book by Katy Farber. Depending on what statistics you use, we lose up to 30% of new teachers in the first three years, up to 50% in the first five. Some clearly should not have been