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Letter from the Editor: Experienced teachers are leaving Michigan schools. This is why.
DATE: August 24, 2023
The presence of more experienced teachers in a school even means that other teacher’s students learn more. They can act as mentors, advisors, repositories of institutional knowledge.
Why they left had a lot to do with the pandemic.
Last year, researchers from Michigan State University’s Education Policy Innovation Collaborative conducted a survey of teachers in some of Michigan’s lowest-performing districts, districts that saw more departures on average than other schools in the state.
They found that, even though 2021-22 was supposed to be a “return to normal,” teachers described that year as “distinctly challenging…due to heightened student needs and substantial challenges meeting those needs.”
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