Music Advocacy Facts

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In the 1987-88 school year, new incoming teachers outnumbered those leaving education by 3 percent. In the 1999-2000 school year, those leaving education outnumbered those coming in by 23 percent.

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