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Typically, urban and
rural schools serving poor and minority students have the highest
turnover rates, and as a result they have the highest percentages of first - year
teachers, the highest percentages of
teachers with fewer than five years of teaching experience, the lowest paid
teachers, and the lowest percentages of accomplished
teachers.
The residency model — which has been launched successfully in urban and
rural school communities across the country — saves money and boosts student achievement, which is otherwise depressed both by high
rates of
turnover and the effects of novice
teachers.
Rural and remote schools, with predominantly inexperienced novice
teachers, have an even higher staff
turnover rate than do metropolitan schools (Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, 2000).