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Attrition in Special Education: Why Teachers Leave the Classroom and Where They Go.

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Brownell, Mary T.; Smith, Stephen W.; McNellis, Janet R.; Miller, M. David – Exceptionality, 1997

A telephone survey of 93 Florida teachers who did not return to their special education teaching position after the 1992-93 year, found the largest portion of teachers who left did so because they were dissatisfied with conditions of work. In addition, the majority of leavers remained in education. (Author/CR)

Descriptors: Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Faculty Mobility, Regular and Special Education Relationship

Factors that Predict Teachers Staying In, Leaving, or Transferring from the Special Education Classroom.

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Miller, M. David; Brownell, Mary T.; Smith, Stephen W. – Exceptional Children, 1999

A survey of 1,576 Florida special-education teachers examined factors that contribute to their propensity to leave or stay in the special education classroom or transfer to a new school. Teachers left special education teaching primarily due to insufficient certification, perceptions of high stress, and perceptions of poor school climate.…

Descriptors: Disabilities, Educational Environment, Elementary Secondary Education, Faculty Mobility