New Measures of Teacher Turnover Can Reveal Underlying Chronic Staffing Problems in Schools

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2018-03

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Holme, Jennifer Jellison
Jabbar, Huriya
Germain, Emily
Dinning, John

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University of Texas at Austin Population Research Center

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Teacher quality is one of the most important measures that predicts students’ educational and professional outcomes. But student success can be undermined by teacher turnover. This brief, by PRC faculty research associate Huriya Jabbar and colleagues, describes a typology of teacher turnover measures, including both measures currently in use as well as new measures developed by the authors. These measures illuminate different ways in which staff instability can negatively affect schools.

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