Teacher Turnover in the Cities and Villages of New York State, Issue 300

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Teachers college, Columbia university, 1928 - School management and organization - 88 pages
 

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Page 37 - January first, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, no person shall be employed or licensed to teach in the primary and grammar schools of any city authorized by law to employ a superintendent of schools, who has not had successful experience in teaching for at least three years, or, in lieu thereof, has not completed a three years...
Page 37 - ... has not graduated from a school or class for the professional training of teachers, having a course of study of not less than thirty-eight weeks, approved by the State Superintendent of Public Instruction.
Page 37 - A course in one of the state normal schools of this state prescribed by the commissioner of education. 2. An examination for and received a life state certificate issued in this state by a superintendent of public instruction or the commissioner of education. 3. A course of study in a high school or academy of not less than three years approved by the commissioner of education or from some institution of learning of equal or higher rank approved by the same authority, and who subsequently to the...
Page 60 - The critical ratio is the ratio of the difference in the averages of the two groups on any item to the Probable Error of the difference on the item. Unless the critical ratio is as much as 3 the difference is probably due to chance and therefore has little or no significance.
Page 59 - David P. Harry, Jr., Cost of Living of Teachers in the State of New York; Contributions to Education.
Page 60 - ... exhalations accompanied by moments of stuttering, 45.8 per cent were found to be above the mean. Since 42.4 per cent would be above the mean by chance, the difference is 3.4 per cent. The SE of the difference was found to be 2.2 per cent, yielding a critical ratio of 1.5. There are 93 chances in 100 that the true difference is in the same direction as the obtained difference. E. Of the listeners' 57 abnormal exhalations, 41 or 72 per cent were accompanied by moments of stuttering.
Page 25 - It is interesting to observe the following differences between cities and villages in the causes of turnover: 1. A larger percentage of teachers from villages leave for better positions than from cities. 2. A larger percentage of village teachers leave to enter another line of work than do city teachers. 3. Dismissal is a much bigger factor in withdrawal from villages than from cities.
Page 24 - ... important.48 He found the following reasons, or causes, operating to produce teacher-turnover in 125 New York counties. They are arranged in order of importance from most important to least important: Resigned to accept better position, resigned to be married, dismissed, home conditions, ill health, to teach nearer home, for professional study, miscellaneous, dissatisfied with present position, retired, to enter another line of work, no specific reason given, death, and maternity.49 Cooke listed...
Page 27 - In the smaller communities, unmarried men with an educational background and social status equal to that of the village school teacher are relatively few in number as compared to the proportion found in cities.
Page 32 - The greater desire for independence of every sort coupled with higher standards for the opposite sex tend to lower the proportion of marriages among this group. Moreover, since salaries are uniformly higher in the high school than in either the grades or the kindergarten, the high school teacher sacrifices more than the others in giving up her job.

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