In England, for example, 44% more teachers in 2022/23 indicated they intended to leave the profession than during the previous year (McLean et al., Citation 2024) and in Australia, 35% of teachers indicated they were likely to leave the profession before retirement, with most likely to do so in the short-term (AITSL, Citation 2023).

Other reasons contributing to Sanderson’s decision to leave the teaching profession included the low pay and being pressured not to talk about pay with his colleagues; stress and burnout; and ...

DeSimone is one of many K-12 teachers who are leaving the profession behind. ... Those who leave teaching behind cite low pay (since 1996, the average wage of a public school teacher has risen just $29, $416 less than the average wage increase earned by other college graduates), ...

UC Santa Cruz Education Professor Lora Bartlett is a scholar who focuses specifically on the teaching profession, and as her own high-school aged daughters switched to online learning during the pandemic, she immediately recognized the need to study the impacts of this event on an already stressed K-12 teaching profession.

Since the pandemic threw U.S. schools into disarray, many educators and experts warned that more teachers would flee the profession. But in 2020, turnover dipped in many places as the economy ...