Further reading for Keeping Teachers

Teachers matter more than anything else in a school. But schools are struggling to hold on to the teachers they need.

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• Addressing the Teacher Shortage: What States Can Do
  (Learning Policy Institute October 26, 2016)

• America Needs More Black Men Leading Its Classrooms
  (Slate June 9, 2016)

• Appalachia Rising
  (CNA Analysis & Solutions September 2015)

• Assessed by a Teacher Like Me: Race, Gender and Subjective Evaluations
  (Centre for the Economics of Education December 2008)

• Black Male Teachers: Diversifying the United States' Teacher Workforce
  (The Journal of Negro Education Summer 2013)

• Black Teachers Matter
  (Mother Jones September/October 2016)

• Changing the Face of Teaching: Preparing Educators for Diverse Settings
  (Teacher Education Quarterly, Winter 2002)

• A Coming Crisis in Teaching? Teacher Supply, Demand, and Shortages in the U.S.
  (Learning Policy Institute September 15, 2016)

• Decades After Civil Rights Gains, Black Teachers a Rarity in Public Schools
  (USA Today February 14, 2017)

• Discretion and Disproportionality: Explaining the Underrepresentation of High-Achieving Students of Color in Gifted Programs
  (AERA Open January 19, 2016)

• For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood
  (Beacon Press 2016)

• Hometown Disadvantage? It Depends on Where You're From: Teachers' Location Preferences and the Implications for Staffing Schools
  (Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis June 1, 2012)

• The Long-Run Impacts of Same-Race Teachers
  (Institute of Labor Economics March 2017)

• Minority Teacher Recruitment, Employment, and Retention: 1987 to 2013
  (Learning Policy Institute September 15, 2016)

• The Reason So Many Black Teachers Leave the Job Early
  (The Hechinger Report November 3, 2016)

• Response: 'Teachers Don't Leave High-Poverty Urban Districts; They Are Exiled'
  (Education Week Teacher May 9, 2015)

• Sixty Years After Brown V. Board, Black Teachers Are Disappearing -- Again
  (Ebony May 19, 2014)

• The State of Racial Diversity in the Educator Workforce
  (U.S. Department of Education July 2016)

• The State of Teacher Diversity
  (Albert Shanker Institute September 2015)

• Teachers' Perceptions of Students' Disruptive Behavior: The Effect of Racial Congruence and Consequences for School Suspension
  (Department of Economics, University of California, Santa Barbara November 2015)

• Teacher Racial Bias Matters More for Students of Color
  (Social Science Research May 2017)

• The Teacher Wars
  (Doubleday 2014)

• Teaching While Black
  (Fordham University Press 2016)

• Where Have All the Black and Brown Teachers Gone?
  (The Hechinger Report December 17, 2014)

• Who Believes in Me? The Effect of Student-teacher Demographic Match on Teacher Expectations
  (Economics of Education Review June 2016)

• Why Rural Matters
  (Rural School and Community Trust June 2017)

• 10 Books I Wish My White Teachers Had Read
  (Bustle April 11, 2016)