Article: Stayers, leavers, lovers, and dreamers: insights about teacher retention.(Editorial)(Editorial)

Teacher shortages are not new. Periodically, throughout the past half century, there have been fewer teachers available than were needed, and policy makers at the state and federal levels have responded by stepping up recruitment efforts and issuing temporary teaching credentials to those without qualifications. Three things are new, however: the requirement that teachers in all schools be "highly qualified"; the realization that it is not so much teacher recruitment that is the problem in staffing the nation's K-12 schools but teacher retention; and growing evidence that, similar to every other problem that plagues the nation's schools, the problem of teacher retention ...

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