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ERIC Number: EJ666109
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2003
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ISSN: ISSN-0013-1784
What Keeps Teachers Going?
Nieto, Sonia M.
Educational Leadership, v60 n8 p14-18 May 2003
Case study explores why a group of seven excellent urban high school teachers in Boston Public Schools have stayed in teaching. Finds teachers shared several common characteristics, such as love of teaching, hope and faith in their students, anger at student injustices including racism and poverty. (PKP)
Descriptors: Faculty Mobility, Secondary Education, Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Persistence, Urban Schools
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Massachusetts (Boston)