Who's Teaching Our Children?.

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Returns to Teacher Experience: Student Achievement and Motivation in Middle School (2017, background): “By 2008, however, about 28 percent—or more than one in four of America’s teachers—had five or fewer years of experience (Ingersoll and Merrill 2010).”
Recruitment, Retention, and the Minority Teacher Shortage (2011, background): “Elsewhere we present a closer examination of the reasons behind this relatively dramatic growth in the teaching force (see, Ingersoll & Merrill, 2010); our focus here is on increase of teachers by their race/ethnicity.”
Formal and Informal Mentoring (2014, background): “First-year teachers comprise nearly 20% of the teaching workforce (Ingersoll & Merrill, 2010), with no signs that this trend will change anytime soon.”
The Impact of Induction and Mentoring Programs for Beginning Teachers (2011, background): “Moreover, those data show that the attrition rates of first-year teachers—now the largest group within the occupation—have slightly increased over the past two decades (Ingersoll & Merrill, 2010).”
A Longitudinal Study of Teaching Practice and Early Career Decisions (2012, background): “Despite the current economic crisis, retention continues to be a problem in many urban and rural locations and in teaching areas such as science, mathematics, special education, and teaching multilingual learners (Ingersoll & Merrill, 2010).”