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Nationally, the annual turnover rate between 1998-2001 for non-teaching positions was 11.9 percent. During 2000-01, the annual turnover rate for teaching positions was 15.7%.

From: Richard M. Ingersoll, adapted for NCTAF from "The Teacher Shortage: A Case of Wrong Diagnosis and Wrong Prescription," NASSP Bulletin, 86 (June 2002), 16-31. Source cited in No Dream Denied: A Pledge to America's Children.

Available here: National Commission On Teaching and America's Future

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