K12> The Great Escape.. Teachers Leaving the Classroom, Old teachers, New Teachers

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From: "Bonnie Bracey" <BBracey@xxxxxxx>
To: <K12ADMIN@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 19:18:52 EDT
Subject: The Great Escape.. Teachers Leaving the Classroom, Old teachers, New 
Teachers
 
 Headline:The great escape
 Byline:Seth Stern Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
 Date: 10/07/2003

 School districts acted fast in the late 1990s when experts warned about
 an impending shortage of 2 million teachers. They offered hiring
 bonuses and housing loans and even imported teachers from as far away
 as the Philippines.

 Then, just as quickly, headlines proclaimed the shortage over, thanks
 to a recession that pushed new applicants into the field.

 As it turns out, though, it's not exactly a happy ending. For one
 thing, the right kinds of teachers aren't always available where
 they're needed. But perhaps even more troubling is the number of
 teachers now running for the exit early in their careers.

 "It's become a crisis," says Tom Carroll, executive director of the
 National Commission on Teaching & America's Future (NCTAF). "We have a
 bucket with huge holes in it. They're leaving as fast as we pour them in."

 Last week, NCTAF hosted a conference on new teachers' experiences in
 Milwaukee. Participants discussed the ways a minority of school
 districts - such as Rochester, N.Y. and Columbus, Ohio - have
 dramatically improved teacher retention, saving money on hiring and
 retraining new teachers in the process.

 But in much of the country, teacher attrition statistics remain
 downright shocking: Almost a third of teachers leave the field within
 their first three years and half before their fifth year, according to
 a NCTAF report.

 In the 1990s, for the first time, the number of teachers leaving the
 profession exceeded the number entering.

 While it is true that many babyboomers who entered the profession in
 the 1960s are retiring, veterans at the end of their career account for
 only about a quarter of departures. Most of the rest of those jumping
 ship are newcomers.

 Retention received little attention during the last decade as educators
 focused on pumping more people into the profession. Increased student
 enrollment and initiatives aimed at reducing class size helped create a
 perception of a looming teacher shortage.
 
Rest of the article at
http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/1007/p13s01-lecl.html

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