‘Teachers Don’t Leave High-Poverty Urban Districts; They Are Exiled’ is the title of my latest Education Week Teacher post.

The post’s responses on the issue of teacher attrition in high-poverty urban schools are contributed by educators Pia LIndquist Wong, Rufus Thompson, Gail L. Thompson, Yvette Jackson, Veronica McDermott, Karen Baptiste, Joseph F. Johnson, Jr., Cynthia L. Uline, and Lynne G. Perez.

Here are some excerpts:

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