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Direct linkDiez, Mary E.; Athanasiou, Nancy; Pointer Mace, Desiree – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2010
Many would say that while there are two ways to enter the teaching profession--traditional and alternative--there seems to be a common way to leave it: quickly. Across the board, more than half of beginning teachers leave teaching before their fifth year, and that percentage is even higher in urban public schools and for those prepared by some…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Teaching (Occupation), Beginning Teachers, Curriculum Development
Miner, Barbara – Rethinking Schools, 2010
Teach for America (TFA) is perceived as a major player in the education wars over the future of public schools, and a key ally of those who disparage teacher unions and schools of education, and who are enamored of entrepreneurial reforms that bolster the privatization of a once-sacred public responsibility. But what exactly is TFA's role in these…
Descriptors: Urban Education, Alternative Teacher Certification, Educational Change, Reputation
Imazeki, J. – Economics of Education Review, 2005
This paper examines teacher labor mobility within and out of the teaching profession. Previous studies of teacher mobility treat attrition as a binary choice where inter-district transfers are grouped with stayers or exits. Either case ignores the possibility that transfer attrition may be influenced by different factors than exit attrition. Using…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Faculty Mobility, Teacher Persistence, Teacher Salaries
Download full textNational Council on Teacher Quality, 2011
For five years running, the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) has tracked states' teacher policies, preparing a detailed and thorough compendium of teacher policy in the United States on topics related to teacher preparation, licensure, evaluation, career advancement, tenure, compensation, pensions and dismissal. The "2011 State…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Beginning Teacher Induction, Beginning Teachers
Theobald, Neil D.; Michael, Robert S. – 2001
This study explored how many teachers were leaving public school districts in Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, and Wisconsin during their first 5 years in teaching. Researchers analyzed four types of novice teachers, including those who: taught continuously in the same district all 5 years, transferred to another district within the state but…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Beginning Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education, Faculty Mobility
Christenson, Howard B. – 1986
This book describes the experiences of 26 retired rural school teachers from western Wisconsin. The book was inspired by the community solidarity of the Cloverdale Community Club (Wisconsin) in maintaining the old Cloverdale School building. Cloverdale School was a typical one-room rural school, built in 1857 and closed by the consolidation…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
