There Has to Be a Better Way

LYNNETTE MAWHINNEY is an associate professor and chair of the department of curriculum and instruction at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is the author or coeditor of several titles, including of Teacher Education across Minority-Serving Institutions: Programs, Policies, and Social Justice (Rutgers University Press).  CAROL R. RINKE is associate professor of education and assistant dean for social and behavioral sciences at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York, where she also coordinates the Marist Center for Social Justice Research. She is the author of Why Half of Teachers Leave the Classroom.

• ContentsForewordIntroduction: Walking in Through the Out Door: Professional Trajectories of Urban TeachersPART I: The Dynamics of Teacher Attrition1          Push and Pull in Career DevelopmentPART II: Structural Factors in Teacher Attrition2          The Struggle is Real: Administrators, Teachers, and The System3          Wading Through the Waters: Exhaustion, Stress, and Disillusionment with Teaching4          Where Has All the Job Security Gone?PART III: The Personal and the Professional in Teacher Attrition5          You Don't Fit Here: Teachers of Color Coping with Racial Microaggressions in Schools6          Negotiating Gendered and Cultural Expectations on a Teacher's Salary: The Mediating Role of Identity7          I Just Feel So Guilty: The Role of Emotions in LeavingPART IV: Addressing Teacher Attrition8          Closing the Revolving Door: Teacher Leavers' Final Lesson for the ProfessionAcknowledgmentsBibliographyIndex

"Mawhinney and Rinke's focus on teachers who have voluntarily left classroom teaching prior to retirement is unique. This well-crafted study fills a void in the current literature."— Tachelle Banks, coeditor of Teaching Students Who are Disturbed and Disturbing: An Integrative Approach"How real is 'Abbott Elementary?' A former Philadelphia school teacher weighs in"— The Conversation"How real is 'Abbott Elementary?' A former Philadelphia school teacher weighs in"— The Conversation"Mawhinney and Rinke's focus on teachers who have voluntarily left classroom teaching prior to retirement is unique. This well-crafted study fills a void in the current literature."— Tachelle Banks, coeditor of Teaching Students Who are Disturbed and Disturbing: An Integrative Approach