Is There Really a Shortage of Mathematics, Science and Special Education Teachers

2. The Source of Data Conducted by the Census Bureau for the U.S. Department of Education 5 Cycles: 1987-1989, 1990-1992 1993-1995, 1999-2001 2003-2004 - forthcoming The largest source of information available on teachers: -Sample: 55,000 teachers 12,000 schools -Representing all 50 states

3. Percent Secondary Schools with Difficulties Filling their Teaching Vacancies, by Field.

4. Percent Annual Teacher Turnover, by Field

6. Beginning Teacher Attrition (Cumulative Percent Teachers Having Left Teaching Occupation, by Years of Experience)

8. Percent Teachers Giving Various Reasons for Their Turnover, by Field

9. Of Those School Teachers Who Moved From or Left Their School, Percent Reporting Various Sources of Dissatisfaction, by Field

10. Percent Turnover After First Year of Beginning Teachers, According to Amount of Induction Support They Received

11. Percent Voluntary Turnover of Teachers, According to Amount of Faculty Influence over School Decisions and Policies

12. For Further Information, Copies of Articles, Reports, etc.: www.gse.upenn.edu/faculty/ingersoll.html and a recent book: Who Controls Teachers’ Work? Power and Accountability in America’s Schools. from Harvard University Press www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/INGWHO.html