Who will stay and who will leave? predicting secondary english teacher attrition risk

Journal of Teacher Education

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 328-338

  Hancock, Carl B ^a   Scherff, Lisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

attrition; English teacher; retention; Schools and Staffing Survey; turnover

Indexed keywords

EID: 78149368388     PISSN: 00224871     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022487110372214     Document Type: Article

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