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Retirement is not the most significant factor in teachers leaving education. Between 1994-95, the most significant factors, ranked in order, were 1. a school staffing action, 2. family or personal, 3. job dissatisfaction, 4. other job opportunities, and then 5. retirement.

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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