%0 Journal Article
%T Getting Real About Teaching Effectiveness and Teacher Retention
%A Barnett Berry
%J Journal of Curriculum and Instruction
%D 2010
%I East Carolina University
%X In this issue of the Journal of Curriculum and Instruction, a set of papers drawing on a range of data offers more substantiation that teaching is a complex activity that takes time to learn. Those who enter through more comprehensive teacher education programs, rather than short-cut alternative ones, learn more deeply about their profession and are more likely to remain in teaching. Let me briefly offer a few highlights from this new research, and then couch it in a larger set of empirical evidence, with implications for policy and practice.
%K Teacher recruitment
%K Teacher retention
%U http://www.joci.ecu.edu/index.php/JoCI/article/view/41/72