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Thursday, March 22, 2012

Daily Kos: Teacher turnover negatively affects student performance

Daily Kos: Teacher turnover negatively affects student performance:


Teacher turnover negatively affects student performance

so says a recently released study titled How teacher turnover harms student achievement, about which Steven Sawchuk writes in this Education Week piece.
The authors of the study are the University of Michigan's Matthew Ronfeldt, Stanford University's Susanna Loeb, and the University of Virginia's Jim Wyckoff.
Quoting from Sawchuk's summary:
Among their findings:• For each analysis, students taught by teachers in the same grade-level team in the same school did worse in years where turnover rates were higher, compared with years in which there was less