Teaching has a relatively high turnover rate compared to nursing and national employee turnover benchmarks¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study · associational r2 · q3
Currency · newest study 2001 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person · overdue for a recheck since 2006: baselines and conditions change

Subclaims¶

q3 i? Teacher turnover (13.2%-15% annually across SASS cycles) exceeds the national employee turnover benchmark of 11% and the registered hospital nurse turnover rate of 12%. → Ingersoll 2001

Evidence¶

Ingersoll 2001¶

Ingersoll, R. M. (2001). Teacher Turnover and Teacher Shortages: An Organizational Analysis. American Educational Research Journal, 38(3), 499-534. https://eric.ed.gov/?q=Teacher+Turnover+and+Teacher+Shortages+Ingersoll

q3 · i? · associational · r2

Descriptive comparison of TFS turnover rates against Bureau of National Affairs employee data (11% per year) and a survey of registered hospital nurses (12% in the mid-1990s). Teaching's rate was higher than both benchmarks.

"Comparison of the TFS data with either the nurse's or the employee turnover rate suggests that teaching has a relatively high turnover rate: 15% from 1988 to 1989, 13.2% from 1991 to 1992, and 14.3% from 1994 to 1995."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• Teacher turnover costs districts billions annually and harms student achievement — related
• Between 2020–21 and 2021–22, 15.1% of U.S. public school teachers moved schools or left the profession, and turnover is now about 20% higher than in 1992 — related
• Overall U.S. teacher turnover is about 16% annually, with about 8% leaving the profession and about 8% moving schools — related
• Turnover rates are about 50% higher in Title I schools than in non-Title I schools — a narrower finding that bears on this claim
• Texas teacher attrition has exceeded the national average by about 25% over the past decade, reaching nearly 12% in 2021–22 — a narrower finding that bears on this claim
• Teachers of color leave the teaching profession at higher rates than white teachers (about 19 percent vs. 15 percent turnover). — a narrower finding that bears on this claim