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Education Recruiting – Turnover Costs Districts on 2 Levels
1) The central office expends resources when recruiting, hiring, processing, and training teachers; and 2) schools incur costs when employees interview, hire, process, orient, and develop new teachers. • Calculate Your Own District’s Cost of Teacher Turnover Cost: Using the data collection and analysis protocol from this study, NCTAF has created a Teacher Turnover Cost Calculator to make these findings accessible to school leaders and members of the public. Using the NCTAF Teacher Turnover Cost Calculator, educators and members of the public … Read entire article »
Filed under: Education Reform, Future of Education, Hiring, Recruiting, teacher evaluation, Teacher skills
Education Recruiting – The High Cost of Teacher Turnover
The National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future (NCTAF) estimates that the national cost of public school teacher turnover could be over $7.3 billion a year. “In 2007, the National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future (NCTAF) completed an 18-month study of the costs of teacher turnover in five school districts – Chicago Public Schools (Chicago, Illinois), Milwaukee Public Schools (Milwaukee, Wisconsin), Granville County Schools (Granville, North Carolina), Jemez Valley Public Schools (New Mexico), and Santa … Read entire article »
Filed under: Education Reform, Featured, Future of Education, Hiring, Recruiting, teacher evaluation
Criticizing Educators:
Why do you think it has become so acceptable to criticize educators and other public employees? Comments? … Read entire article »
Filed under: Featured, Future of Education, Student Performance, teacher evaluation, Teacher motivation, Teacher Pay, Teacher skills, Teacher Strikes
