Indeed, other studies have confirmed that when class sizes are lowered,
teacher turnover rates fall.
New York City is assuming that
teacher turnover rates fall every five years.
Not exact matches
The
turnover rate for
teachers with 1 - 3 years of experience
fell by 1.2 percentage points during this period, whereas the
rate among
teachers with 20 or more years of experience increased by 4.8 percentage points.
In fact, although the
teacher turnover *
rate rose in the 1990s and 2000s, more recently it's started to
fall.
In turn, the instability associated with high
rates of
teacher turnover falls disproportionately on poor students.
Few parents or business leaders know that disadvantaged children often
fall further behind the longer they are in school or that schools serving the disadvantaged often have the least experienced
teachers and suffer the highest
rates of
teacher turnover.
Teacher turnover rates aren't rising, but we are employing more
teachers who
fall into career stages with high
turnover.
Just last week, Bellwether Education Partners policy expert Chad Aldeman reported in Education Next, «
Turnover rates for inexperienced teachers have been falling, not rising, while turnover has risen among more experienced teachers
Turnover rates for inexperienced
teachers have been
falling, not rising, while
turnover has risen among more experienced teachers
turnover has risen among more experienced
teachers.»