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A collection of free articles from Rethinking Schools is available as a PDF download. The subject of these PDFs is teacher retention…read the individual articles at their web site. From their summary page:

Addressing this situation is complicated and requires us to confront fundamental problems that face our public schools: inadequate and unequal funding, lack of planning and collaboration time for teachers, large class size and difficult working conditions, faulty mentoring and evaluation systems, archaic salary systems, inadequate preservice and in-service professional development, and so on.

Here are some that jumped out at me:


Teaching’s Revolving Door
by Barbara Miner
An overview of the crisis in teacher retention, along with an examination of some programs that are being used to address the issue. Teacher residency programs are looked at in some detail.
Rethinking Schools, Winter 2008-09, Vol. 23. 2


Reinventing Schools That Keep Teachers in Teaching
by Deborah Meier
Educator and writer reflects on her experience in what it takes for a school to keep quality teachers.
Rethinking Schools, Summer 2009, Vol. 23.4



The Hows and Whys of Peer Mentoring
by Marc Osten and Eric Gidseg 
Practical nuts-and-bolts information on how the authors structured and maintained a peer mentoring program in their school.
Rethinking Schools, Summer 1998, Vol. 12.4

Teachers as Learners: How Peer Mentoring Can Improve Teaching
by Marc Osten and Eric Gidseg
Two teachers describe how evaluations by their fellow teachers gave them a valuable new perspective on their teaching practice.
Rethinking Schools, Summer 1998, Vol. 12.4

Teachers Teaching Teachers
by Linda Christensen
In Portland, teachers work together to create teacher-centered professional development.
Rethinking Schools, Winter 2005-06, Vol. 20.2

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