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Commissioned Papers

• Turnover Among Math and Science Teachers in the U.S. by Richard M. Ingersoll, summarizes the rates of, and reasons for, teacher turnover, including for mathematics and science teachers. Data presented indicate that school-staffing difficulties primarily result from a "revolving door." He argues that teacher recruitment programs will not solve school staffing problems unless they address the problem of teacher retention.
  
  
• Teacher Leadership: An Appealing and Inescapable Force in School Reform? by Brian Lord and Barbara Miller, suggests that teacher leadership is essential to the reform of mathematics, science and technology teaching. The paper also points out that the profession lacks a comprehensive view of what teacher leadership is, how it works, and whether and how well it can be harnessed to improve teaching.
  
  
• More Swimming, Less Sinking - Perspectives on Teacher Induction in the U.S. and Abroad by Edward Britton, Senta Raizen, Lynn Paine, Mary Ann Huntley, reports that a major reason that significant numbers of new mathematics and science teachers leave the profession is job dissatisfaction. They propose that strategies need to be developed to reach every novice teacher through induction programs.
  
  
• The fourth paper, authored by Dr. Beatriz Chu Clewell and Laurie B. Forcier, Increasing the Number of Mathematics and Science Teachers: A Review of Teacher Recruitment Programs, describes and evaluates the effectiveness of recruitment strategies that have been used in the past, and those that could be used in the future to reduce the shortage of mathematics and science teachers.

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