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Survey: Supportive leadership helps retain top teachers
03/03/10 | The Washington Post

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The Revolving Door
Winter 2004 | Education Next

A Gates-funded survey of 40,000 teachers finds that supportive leadership is more important to them than higher salaries (and much more important to them than performance pay). A study published by Ed Next in 2004 found that teachers transfer from one school to another–or leave teaching–in reaction to the characteristics of their students and other working conditions, not in response to better salaries elsewhere.