The Price of Misassignment

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Teach for America Teachers: How Long do They Teach? Why do They Leave? (2011, background): “…to teach more challenging assignments — split grades, multiple subjects, or out-of-field courses, for which they were not prepared — were more likely to resign from teaching or leave their jobs than those with single-grade, single-subject, or in-field assignments (Donaldson & Johnson, 2010).”
The association between teaching students with disabilities and teacher turnover. (2020, background): “Studies of out-of-field placement, when a teacher is assigned classes in an area in which they are not certified or trained, also suggest the importance of training and certification to attenuate to turnover (Donaldson & Johnson, 2010; Ingersoll, 1999).”