Teacher turnover matters
Last year, I wrote a series of posts calling teacher turnover the biggest problem we face in education, every word of which I still stand by, and would be willing to double down on (parts 1, 2, & 3). A new study backs that up, which Stephen Sawchuk wrote about recently for his Education Week blog:
When teachers leave schools, overall morale appears to suffer enough that student achievement declines—both for those taught by the departed teachers and by students whose teachers stayed put, concludes a study recently presented at a conference held by the Center for Longitudinal Data in Education Research...
Among their findings:
- For each analysis, students taught by teachers in the same grade-level team in the same