Music Advocacy Facts

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Keeping new teachers in education is a serious problem. After the first year of teaching, 14 percent of teachers leave their field. After the fifth year of teaching, 46 percent leave their field.

From: Richard M. Ingersoll, adapted for NCTAF from "The Teacher Shortage: A Case of Wrong Diagnosis and Wrong Prescription" NASSP Bulletin 86 (June 2002), pp.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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