By 2012, however, the reverse was true, with the majority reporting they had little autonomy (U.S. Department of Education, 2015)-- and
as research by the
sociologist Richard Ingersoll has made crystal clear, teachers who experience lower levels of decision - making authority in their classes and schools are significantly less likely to stay in teaching
as a
career (Ingersoll, 2001).
Not someone who has ever worked in publishing, who knows what publishers do behind the scenes, or what the issues are, or how the distribution works, or what the boots - on - the - ground challenges are, or how the industry is changing, or what publishers do to help authors build long term
careers, or the differences between large and small presses, or the history of returnable books or what it's like to work with major distributors such
as Amazon... a
sociologist, armed with some numbers.»