Public Education Faces a Crisis in Teacher Retention
Nearly half of all new teachers leave the job within five years. What’s killing their spirit? How can we get them to stay?
by Claudia Graziano.

It was late August four years ago when I sat down at a scratched wooden desk to begin my first teaching position. I was nervous. I knew that the job, if done right, wouldn’t be easy. There would be long hours and little pay. But I also hoped that I could inspire kids the way my best teachers had inspired me.

What I didn’t know then was that I wouldn’t make it. Less than a year after facing my first classroom of thirty-two fidgeting tenth graders, I walked away and never came back — to that classroom or to teaching. I became a statistic.

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