How does the OPE system address the alarmingly high rate of teacher turnover nationwide?
A high level of attrition already characterizes the teaching profession. According to the National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future, 2 million of the 3.4 million teachers currently in the professions will need to be replaced over the next decade – three times as many through attrition as through retirement. In addition, forty-six percent of beginning teachers drop out in the first five years, many of whom are the most talented of our new educators. Given the far broader career choices that women now have than they had 30 years ago, to attract and retain the “best and the brightest” we need to transform the teaching profession.
