By the end of five years, almost half of new teachers have left the profession. A 1986 study concluded that teachers who leave the profession show a lower mean income than those who stay, disputing the myth that all teacher unhappiness is related to low income.
This graph shows the retention rate of a typical cohort of teachers at the end of each of their first five years of teaching.
Source: TEA and Texas Teacher Recruitment and Retention Study
The following url links to an article on www.edweek.org that features an interview with research assistant, Morgaen Donaldson who works with the Project on the Next Generation of Teachers at Harvard University. It discusses what educational research says about teacher retention in terms of recruitment and personnel administration.
http://www2.edweek.org/agentk-12/articles/2005/05/27/05pngt_tr.html
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