Retaining teachers of color: A pressing problem and a potential strategy for "hard-to-staff" schools

Review of Educational Research

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 71-107

  Achinstein, Betty ^a   Ogawa, Rodney T ^a   Sexton, Dena ^a   Freitas, Casia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b New Teacher Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Diversity; New teachers; Retention; Teachers of color

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950521867     PISSN: 00346543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3102/0034654309355994     Document Type: Article

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