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Let’s Talk: Starting a Conversation About Teacher Turnover

Roberta Furger

Sep 13 2017
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High teacher turnover is costly for schools and districts and can undermine efforts to improve academic opportunities and outcomes. This blog post outlines the causes and impact of turnover and speaks to the need for schools and districts to understand their local costs and begin a conversation about how to improve retention and build a strong and stable teacher workforce.

Topics Educator Quality, Equitable Resources and Access
Interactive Tool

What's the Cost of Teacher Turnover?

Sep 13 2017
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High teacher turnover—or churn—undermines student achievement and consumes valuable staff time and resources. It also contributes to teacher shortages throughout the country, as roughly 6 of 10 new teachers hired each year are replacing colleagues who left the classroom before retirement. This tool is designed to help policymakers and stakeholders estimate the cost of teacher turnover in a school or district and to inform a local conversation about how to attract, support, and retain a high-quality teacher workforce.

Topic Educator Quality
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Keep the DREAM Alive

Linda Darling-Hammond

Sep 07 2017
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On September 5, President Trump announced his plan to repeal the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. Since it was implemented, the DACA program has ensured that nearly 800,000 children of immigrants—many of whom have no recollection of any country other than the U.S.—can safely attend school, earn degrees, and become contributing members of the country in which they were raised.
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An Equity Q & A with Dr. Linda Darling-Hammond

Linda Darling-Hammond

Sep 04 2017
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In this re-posting of a Q&A first published as part of the Hunt Institute’s blog, The Intersection, LPI President Dr. Linda Darling-Hammond describes the opportunity ESSA presents to advance educational equity in our nation’s schools and offers examples of how states are capitalizing on ESSA requirements to address longstanding disparities and better support marginalized youth.

Topics Equitable Resources and Access, The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)
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Measuring What Matters: Leveraging ESSA to Foster Social Emotional Learning

Hanna Melnick

Aug 29 2017
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The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) requires states to include at least one measure of school quality and student success in their accountability and improvement systems. In response, states are including measures related to social emotional learning (SEL), from chronic absenteeism to school climate surveys. This blog explores strategies for understanding and supporting SEL in schools and districts.

Topic Deeper Learning
Webinar

How Investing in Teacher and Leader Professional Development Can Support Student Success

Aug 28 2017
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Researchers discussed seven evidence-based key common elements of effective teacher professional development identified in a new review of 35 methodologically rigorous studies of professional development programs to improve students’ academic outcomes. Practitioners shared how their approaches to professional development are aligned with the research and are improving outcomes for students. Panelists also discussed promising, evidence-based investments in school leadership, including those contained in ESSA state plans that take advantage of the optional Title II, Part A leadership set-aside.

Topics Educator Quality, Educator Quality: Professional Learning
Report

Minority Teacher Recruitment, Employment, and Retention: 1987 to 2013

Richard M. Ingersoll,

Henry May,

Greg Collins

Aug 28 2017
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Although the number of minority teachers more than doubled between 1987 and 2012, high turnover rates have undermined efforts to diversify the teacher workforce. Improving school organization, management, and leadership can support improved retention of minority teachers, according to this report, which examines and compares the recruitment, employment, and retention of minority and nonminority teachers over the past quarter century.

Topics Educator Quality, Educator Quality: Recruitment & Retention
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Moving Forward from Charlottesville

Linda Darling-Hammond

Aug 22 2017
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We at the Learning Policy Institute denounce the hatred that motivated recent events, while we mourn for those engaged in peaceful protest who were hurt by the senseless violence and for Heather Heyer, who lost her life. And we remember with respect and deep gratitude the many others over hundreds of years who courageously stood and often gave their lives in the cause of civil rights and social justice.
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Teacher Turnover: Why It Matters and What We Can Do About It

Desiree Carver-Thomas,

Linda Darling-Hammond

Aug 16 2017
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Without changes in current policies, U.S. teacher shortages are projected to grow in the coming years. Teacher turnover is an important source of these shortages. About 8% of teachers leave the profession each year, two-thirds of them for reasons other than retirement. Another 8% shift to different schools each year. In addition to aggravating teacher shortages, high turnover rates lower student achievement and are costly for schools. This brief examines turnover trends and causes and concludes that policies to stem teacher turnover should target compensation, teacher preparation and support, and teaching conditions.

Topics Educator Quality: Recruitment & Retention, Educator Quality, Equitable Resources and Access
Report

Teacher Turnover: Why It Matters and What We Can Do About It

Desiree Carver-Thomas,

Linda Darling-Hammond

Aug 16 2017
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As students return to school this year, many will be in one of the more than 100,000 classrooms across the country staffed by an instructor not fully qualified to teach. This shortage of qualified teachers is almost entirely due to teachers leaving the profession and about 2/3 of teachers who leave do so for reasons other than retirement. This study looks at who is leaving, why, who is impacted, and policy considerations.

Topics Educator Quality: Recruitment & Retention, Educator Quality, Equitable Resources and Access

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Diversifying the Teaching Profession: How to Recruit and Retain Teachers of Color

Apr 19 2018

More and more states and districts are recognizing that recruiting and retaining teachers of color can help meet their students' needs while also helping to curb critical teacher shortages. But prospective teachers of color encounter unique barriers to entering and staying in the profession. High-retention pathways—combining high-quality clinically rich preparation with financial support—can be especially effective at reversing those trends.

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Building an Early Learning System that Works: Next Steps for California

Jan 23 2018

There is overwhelming evidence that children’s early years, from birth through preschool, are a crucial time for their development, and that high-quality early learning opportunities support children’s school readiness, promote later life success, and yield a return of up to $7 for every $1 invested. Providing access to high-quality ECE for all children in California will require a comprehensive approach to turning an uncoordinated set of underfunded programs into a true system of supports for children, families, and providers. A complement to LPI’s earlier report Understanding California’s Early Care and Education System, this report examines the challenges California’s counties face in providing ECE and provides recommendations for improving access to high-quality ECE for all children.

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The Promise of Performance Assessments: Innovations in High School Learning and Higher Education Admissions

Jan 18 2018

A new study looks at the use of performance assessments for both K-12 learning and college admission, placement and advising. The study is the first research produced through Reimagining College Access, a national initiative of the Learning Policy Institute and EducationCounsel that for the first time brings together k-12 and higher education policy and practice leaders to recognize and foster high-quality k–12 performance assessment systems.

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