Did you know: half of all U.S. teachers quit within five years? - The Diigo Meta page

• 14 Aug 13
  

  Gene Gordon

  education science teachers

• 02 Jul 12
  

  Adam Babcock

  education teacherprep gender

  • The proportion of new teachers who leave the profession has hovered around 50 percent for decades
  • found that the average teacher is a married, 43-year-old white woman who is religious.
  • holding master's degrees increasing to 50 percent from 23 percent since the early 1960s.
  • Only 6 percent of teachers are African American, and 5 percent are Hispanic, Asian or come from other ethnic groups. Men represent barely a quarter of teachers, which the association says is the lowest level in four decades.

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• 15 Dec 10
  

  Jason Neiffer
• 24 Mar 10
  

  Joe Bower

  quit Firing teachers

• 11 Feb 08
  

  Nathan Rein

  I didn't know this, but it doesn't surprise me. Citing salaries too low to repay student loans (needed to get the master's degrees now required in many jurisdictions), as well as hostile working conditions, the average teacher quits 2 1/2 years after star

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