Music Advocacy Facts

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Retirement represented a much smaller percentage of those leaving teaching from a high poverty urban school (13.8 percent) than from a low poverty suburban school (26.1 percent).

From: Richard M. Ingersoll, adapted for NCTAF from "Teacher Turnover and Teacher Shortages: An Organizational Analysis" American Educational Research Journal 38 (fall 2001), 499-534. 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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