Barry D. Anderson

Teacher Survival Rates—A Current Look

Data are examined for the period 1968 to 1976 to provide a current look at public school teacher survival rates, and to update Charters’ findings reported in 1970. Results indicate that the downward sloping survival curve that Charters found still exists, although the curve has shifted up steadily through time. For example, of the cohort of new entrants to teaching in the St. Louis area in 1968, only 64.7% lasted beyond 1 year. Further, the survival rate differential between men and women has decreased over time to a point that the rates are virtually identical.