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Why Do They Choose to Teach--And Why Do They Leave? A Study of Middle School and High School Mathematics Teachers
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Curtis, Carol – Education, 2012
This study examined the reasons that mathematics teachers enter the teaching profession, and compared those reasons with the reasons for leaving the teaching profession. Participants in a national study were surveyed and interviewed, with results broken into categories of gender, age, ethnicity, and region of the country. Results indicated that…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Teaching (Occupation), Mathematics Teachers, Career Choice