Not exact matches
Federal data from NCES offers a potentially surprising revelation: Private school
teachers have
higher turnover rates than their public school counterparts, and it's not
particularly close.
While the choices regarding staffing were deliberate, they do create challenges
particularly around the
high rate of
turnover and thus ongoing training in the SSO role as well as eligibility for staff applying for Lead
Teacher roles.
Federal data from the National Center on Education Statistics (NCES) offers a potentially surprising revelation: Private school
teachers have
higher turnover rates than their public school counterparts, and it's not
particularly close.
The plaintiffs argued that the schools — and their students — suffered disproportionately because many of their
teachers lacked seniority, a problem
particularly acute in impoverished areas where
turnover is
high.
A 2011 study of the effects of
teacher turnover on the performance over five years of more than 600,000 fourth - and fifth - graders in New York City found that students who experienced
higher teacher turnover scored lower in math and English on standardized tests — and this was «
particularly strong in schools with more low - performing and black students.»
But this arrangement is
particularly bad for groups of
teachers with
high turnover rates.
This is
particularly difficult at a time when the supply of
teachers is constrained by
high turnover rates, annual retirements of longtime
teachers, and a decline in students opting for a teaching career — and when demand for
teachers is rising due to rigorous national student performance standards and many locales» mandates to shrink class sizes.
Students with fewer advantages who have endured more hardships may need even more resources, and their
teachers may need more PD over long periods of time,
particularly in
high poverty schools with
high turnover.