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- Title
Law and Policy Impacts on Teacher Attrition in Public Education: Data Suggesting a New Focus Beyond Silver Bullets of Targeted STEM and Other Salary Increases.
- Authors
Hanks, Joseph H.; Ferrin, Scott E.; Davies, Randall S.; Christensen, Steven S.; Harris, Scott P.; Bowles, W. Bryan
- Abstract
27 Anne Cockburn & Terry Haydn, Recruiting and Retaining Teachers: Understanding Why Teachers Teach (2004). 122 21 Law & Policy Impacts on Teacher Attrition other explanations for why teachers leave the profession that may be as important as, or even more important than, teacher salaries.28 Some of these explanations follow. At the very least, policymakers and legislators who are serious about reducing teacher attrition (and, therefore, the teacher shortage) can start by equalizing funding (and, therefore, teacher salaries) across school districts within the same state, while simultaneously improving teacher work conditions. This can prove to be a difficult task, even when administrators believe that teacher work conditions need to be improved, in part because some of the causes of poor teacher work conditions lie beyond the influence of local administrators to change.48 However, the good news is that research has shown that there are teacher-leaving factors that school administrators can positively influence. At the same time that we are improving teacher salaries, more can be done to improve workplace conditions for teachers, which would 60 Richard Ingersoll, Teacher turnover, teacher shortages, and the organization ofschools, 38 Am. Educ.
- Subjects
JOB stress; TEACHER attrition; MENTORING; WAGE increases; MORALE; NO Child Left Behind Act of 2001
- Publication
Brigham Young University Education & Law Journal, 2020, Vol 2020, Issue 2, p115
- ISSN
1930-5273
- Publication type
Article