Every year, a considerable number of teachers transfer schools or leave the profession entirely. In 2012-13, nearly 16% of all public school teachers moved to a different school or quit teaching. While teacher turnover rates were under 13% in our nation’s wealthiest schools, this rate was much higher (22%) in schools with high poverty rates. …
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By Dave Reid The Harvard Graduate School of Education is working on a new initiative called “Transforming Teaching” with the goal of supporting high-quality teaching in a systematic and coherent way. The initiative recently released a white paper, arguing: (1) there is a lack of usable knowledge about good teaching and the knowledge that is …