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| A Teacher Development Continuum: The Role of Policy in Creating a Supportive Pathway into the Profession |
| Liam Goldrick |
| New Teacher Center Policy Brief |
| June 2009 |
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| The learning curve of beginning teachers poses a challenge for schools. For urban schools, which employ a disproportionate number of new educators and often exhibit higher rates of teacher turnover, the lower effectiveness of beginning teachers is a major threat to those schools’ ability to provide an excellent education to their students and to close achievement gaps. Demographic changes will ensure that this challenge is one that more and more school districts across the nation grapple with in the coming years. More than half of the current education workforce is eligible to retire within the next decade. Supporting the cadre of new educators who will replace them to become more effective more quickly should be a primary goal for policymakers and education leaders alike. |
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