Mentoring programs and more aggressive recruitment in fields other than teaching will help school systems brace for the upcoming wave of teacher retirements that will exceed any in history, says a Texas A&M University educator and trainer of school administrators.
About half the nation's veteran teachers and administrators are already over 50, and the number of young incoming teachers is nowhere near what is needed, says John Hoyle, a 52-year veteran of education and a 34-year professor of K-12 administration in the Texas A&M Department of Educational Administration and Human Resource Development.
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