Recent data
show teacher turnover rates reaching nearly 25 % among teachers who strongly disagree that their administrator encourages and acknowledges staff, communicates a clear vision, and generally runs a school well.
Not exact matches
New research
shows a connection between the loss of
teacher tenure and a higher
rate of
teacher turnover.
A close look at the financial assumptions that undergird their plans
shows that the states themselves don't believe these incentives are effective at retaining
teachers; in fact, they count on high
rates of
teacher turnover in order to balance the books.
Regardless of whether I use the pension plan assumptions or the actual
turnover rate, the lines
show that half of all new
teachers will not reach ten years of service and will not qualify for a retirement benefit.
The proportion of
teachers who quit in their first year on the job has increased steadily since the late 1980s, according to Prof. Ingersoll's research, which also has
shown teachers»
turnover rate is higher than that for nurses, lawyers and architects, but lower than child - care workers» and paralegals».
A growing body of evidence
shows that
teacher turnover, especially the high
turnover rates in many of the most underserved communities, reduces student achievement.
The graph below isn't fine - grained enough to
show the results for each state, but it does
show that some states have much steeper
teacher turnover rates than others.
Not only do the data
show a clear change before and after Act 10 passed, but changes in compensation,
turnover, and exit
rates appear to be larger in Wisconsin than in other states.6 Further, both supporters and opponents of the law agree that it caused major cuts to
teacher benefits and reduced
teachers» compensation.
Federal data from the National Center on Education Statistics
show that private school
teachers have a higher
turnover rate than their public school counterparts, and it's not close.