Article
Retaining Teachers of Color- A Pressing Problem and a Potential Strategy for “Hard-to-Staff” Schools.pdf
Review of Educational Research
(2010)
Abstract
Given calls to diversify the teaching workforce, this review examines research on retention and turnover of teachers of color, focusing on new teachers because they leave at disproportionately high rates. Reviewing 70 studies, the authors found that (a) recent national studies identify turnover rates for teachers of color are now higher than those for White teachers; (b) policy- amenable school-level conditions related to financial, human, social, and cultural capital can affect retention; (c) teachers of color are more likely than Whites to work and remain in “hard-to-staff” urban schools with high pro- portions of students from low-income and nondominant racial and cultural communities; and (d) factors affecting the retention of teachers of color can contribute to staffing urban schools with quality teachers, including teachers’ humanistic commitments, innovative approaches in the professional prepara- tion of teachers of color, and the presence of multicultural capital in schools.
Keywords
- teachers of color,
- teacher recruitment,
- teacher retention,
- diversity in education
Disciplines
Publication Date
March, 2010
DOI
10.3102/0034654309355994
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Citation Information
Betty Achinstein, Rodney T. Ogawa, Dena Sexton and Casia Freitas. "Retaining Teachers of Color- A Pressing Problem and a Potential Strategy for “Hard-to-Staff” Schools.pdf" Review of Educational Research Vol. 80 Iss. 1 (2010) p. 71 - 107 ISSN: 0034-6543 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/dena-sexton/3/