How teacher turnover harms student achievement (NBER Working Paper No. 17176).
Matthew Ronfeldt, Susanna Loeb, and James Wyckoff, «
How Teacher Turnover Harms Student Achievement,» American Educational Research Journal 50 (2013): 4 — 36; Linda Darling - Hammond, The Flat World and Education: How America's Commitment to Equity Will Determine Our Future (New York: Teachers College Press, 2010); and Linda Darling - Hammond, «Keeping Good Teachers: Why It Matters, What Leaders Can Do,» Educational Leadership 60, no. 8 (May 2003): 6 — 13.
As important, the report details
how teacher turnover is experienced more acutely by some students and communities than others.
One question that naturally arises is
how teacher turnover rates compare with turnover rates in other occupations.
The graph below shows
how teacher turnover differs within the Miami - Dade Public schools.
Not exact matches
When we think about retention in a remote Indigenous context, our first thought is often the students —
how do we keep them at school when high
teacher turnover is disrupting continuity of learning?
In order to determine
how accurate those assumptions are, I looked at the assumed and actual
teacher turnover rates in New York City.
The last column uses the state's
turnover assumptions to estimate
how many California
teachers will remain long enough to break even.
Turnover for beginners — who leave at much higher rates than other
teachers — is influenced by
how well novices are prepared prior to entry and
how well they are mentored in their first years on the job.
This article examines
how principal effectiveness and other determinants of
teachers» work environments explain
teacher satisfaction and
turnover.
Do you think school districts are aware
how much
teacher turnover costs them?
When I saw your estimates of
how much
teacher turnover might be costing school districts, I was surprised.
Based on these data — which treat compensation,
teacher turnover, working conditions, and qualifications — each state is assigned a «teaching attractiveness rating,» indicating
how supportive it appears to be of
teacher recruitment and retention and a «
teacher equity rating,» indicating the extent to which students, in particular students of color, are assigned uncertified or inexperienced
teachers.
If
turnover of
teachers and principals is any measure of
how well the district attracts talent, the numbers are not comforting.
Rather, much disagreement and debate, in fact, still exist regarding whether inducing
teacher turnover will get «us» really anywhere in terms of school reform, as also related to
how big (or small)
teachers» effects on students» measurable performance actually are as discussed prior.
Ever since I joined the district a little over 5 years ago and as I saw the high
turnover at the end of every school year since, the question of
how to hold on to those
teachers has been at the front of my mind.
It then assess potential impacts by examining
how new
teacher turnover differs in districts along the Oregon - Washington border and within Oregon across school districts.
How can you justify exacerbating
teacher turnover by using TFA?
Rethinking Schools» Bob Peterson explains
how high
teacher turnover in MPS affects students.
In
Teacher Turnover: Why It Matters and What We Can Do About It, authors Desiree Carver - Thomas and Linda Darling - Hammond do a deep dive into the 2012 Schools and Staffing Survey and the 2013 Teacher Follow - up Survey (the most recent of two nationally representative surveys) to investigate how turnover trends vary across teachers and
Turnover: Why It Matters and What We Can Do About It, authors Desiree Carver - Thomas and Linda Darling - Hammond do a deep dive into the 2012 Schools and Staffing Survey and the 2013
Teacher Follow - up Survey (the most recent of two nationally representative surveys) to investigate
how turnover trends vary across teachers and
turnover trends vary across
teachers and schools.
«I don't know
how a district does anything when you have a
turnover of administrators and superintendents and principals and
teachers every three years,» said Reed.
To reasonably ask UTR members to consider these changes, the district must clearly show
how and why these specific changes can remedy persistent school climate issues that drive chronic
teacher turnover, disrupt school culture, and diminish student academic performance.
Although high - need schools in the U.S. have high rates of
teacher turnover (regardless of
how teachers have been prepared), TFA corps members stay in the classroom longer than
teachers who have entered the teaching profession via another pathway.
How much of
teacher turnover can be attributed to programs like TFA?
The academics from the University of Virginia and Stanford University set out to study
how a system that increases
turnover by firing low - rated
teachers affects student learning.
Vance County Schools Superintendent Anthony Jackson, who took part in the panel at the Governor's Commission meeting to explain
how his district is struggling with high
teacher turnover rates and unfunded mandates, said that when it comes to funding students with special needs, it's time for the state to provide funding based on the needs of students.
If 8 percent is a high
teacher turnover rate,
how does it compare to other professions?
For instance, Strunk described
how she once attempted to estimate the rate of
teacher turnover at different schools — but she wasn't able to do so because the available data wasn't detailed enough.
In this paper, we study
how providing improved information to principals about
teacher effectiveness and encouraging them to use the information in personnel decisions affects the composition of
teacher turnovers.
This brief discusses
how teacher working conditions provide an avenue to reduce
teacher turnover and lessen the severity of
teacher shortages.
How high is
teacher turnover and is it a problem?
How teaching conditions predict
teacher turnover in California schools.
However, the comparisons made in this report focus only on
how each in - school factor — violence at school, feeling unsafe,
teacher turnover, and
teacher absenteeism — affects school achievement.
Committed to their students but in need of support:
How school context influences
teacher turnover in high - poverty, urban schools