"The pressure to hire many new teachers to meet the goal of Universal Primary Education and replace teachers leaving the profession often lead to the recruitment of less qualified teachers or even to lower national standards, " adds Bernal.
Already %46 of new teachers leave the profession within five years, and now reformers want to make it even less appealing for teachers to make teaching a career.
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But the report actually has a lot more to say about attracting new teachers into the profession.
But many newly qualified teachers left the profession within the first few years because of stress and workload.
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"It has brought a great deal of new, talented and enthusiastic young teachers into the profession, " he said.
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Each year, on average, 200, 000 new teachers enter the profession, many still left alone to sink or swim in their classrooms.
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Nearly half of teachers leave the profession within five years of starting.
These figures, however, do not take into account the number of teachers leaving the profession for a variety of reasons such as retirement, illness, or career change.
Until last year, the figures, from the database of teacher records, showed a fall in the number of qualified teachers leaving the profession over the previous five years.
We need a programme to raise the quality of teaching and school leadership which is what makes the most difference but under this government, we've seen 10, 000 teachers leave the profession.
But when you ask how anti-reformers would change the system they suggest: we should pay teachers better, implement smaller class sizes, treat teachers like professionals by making the profession more exclusive, stop demonizing teachers, etc.
Even though many teachers have left the profession, there are still mostly enough to go round.
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And, if class sizes keep going up, more teachers will leave the profession.
To reverse the situation she pledged to end the "endless stream" of bureaucracy which forces many teachers to leave the profession.
The Conservatives claim that teaching has now become so wrapped up in the red tape of endless testing and form-filling that disillusioned teachers are leaving the profession in droves.
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Many of the best American charter schools are run by teachers who joined the profession via Teach for America, a programme that places ambitious graduates in tough urban schools.
In a perfect world barbers would not need a license to cut hair, lawyers would not need expensive law degrees, and teachers could enter the profession with whatever relevant life experience they had accrued.
Even cheaper housing might not be enough to persuade disgruntled teachers to stick with their profession.
And focusing so much on firing bad teachers instead of making the profession more desirable to good people is deeply misguided.
The report also rules out recruiting managers from outside the profession as head teachers, an idea proposed by PricewaterhouseCoopers, a consultancy, in January.
"The economic situation has had an impact on why teachers have remained in the profession, " said Carla Theodorou, principal of the Metropolitan High School in the Bronx.
Others in the profession are adamant that teachers should not be to blame.
Unions claims poor pupil behaviour - along with a heavy workload - is the main factor cited by teachers who decide to leave the profession.
Director of Education Colin Grant said the scheme had been "largely welcomed" and offered a "real opportunity" for young teachers ready to commit themselves to the profession.
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Because 46% of all new teachers in the United States leave the profession within five years, NCTAF says leaders of at-risk schools are in a constant cycle of rebuilding their staff.
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Even accepting these premises I fail to see how implementing a complicated, controversial, financially burdensome and ultimately counterproductive testing regime is the correct answer to getting rid of the bad teachers while attracting good people to the profession.
It was a radical recasting of the teaching profession to embed teaching assistants alongside teachers and give them a defined role - now more than 130, 000 of them, double the number in 1997.
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Jose van Kooten at the Rientjes Mavo school in Maarssen, near Utrecht, said that teachers did not always feel that society respected their profession.
The Administration has worked across several initiatives to support teachers, including by recruiting top talent to the profession, increasing accountability of teacher preparation programs, supporting the rethinking of traditional compensation and advancement models, promoting educator collaboration, and re-engaging communities in their schools.
In 2007 Public Agenda surveyed 865 first-year teachers in high-needs schools, some of whom had graduated from traditional teaching programs, others who entered the profession through Teach for America, the New Teacher Project, and Troops to Teachers.
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