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Retaining Quality Teachers
- The High School Journal
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Volume 86, Number 1, October-November 2002
- pp. 57-75
- 10.1353/hsj.2002.0015
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This study investigated teacher attrition and retention in seven Virginia school divisions representing urban, suburban, and rural localities. Focus group interviews of teachers who stay in their school divisions and telephone interviews of teachers who migrated to another school division or who left the teaching profession revealed a hierarchy of organizational influences on teacher attrition and retention. A menu of state, district and building level recommendations are offered for retaining quality teachers.