{"id":2553,"date":"2014-03-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-01T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carnegie25live.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=2553"},"modified":"2025-12-17T02:31:02","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T10:31:02","slug":"beginners-in-the-classroom-what-the-changing-demographics-of-teaching-mean-for-schools-students-and-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carnegiefoundation.org\/beginners-in-the-classroom-what-the-changing-demographics-of-teaching-mean-for-schools-students-and-society\/","title":{"rendered":"Beginners in the Classroom: What the Changing Demographics of Teaching Mean for Schools, Students, and Society"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-9f092ff3\">\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-f749780f\">\n\n<figure class=\"gb-block-image gb-block-image-76d64e57\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"257\" height=\"350\" class=\"gb-image gb-image-76d64e57\" src=\"https:\/\/www.carnegiefoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/beginners_in_classroom_colver-257x350-1.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"beginners_in_classroom_colver-257x350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carnegiefoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/beginners_in_classroom_colver-257x350-1.png 257w, https:\/\/www.carnegiefoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/beginners_in_classroom_colver-257x350-1-220x300.png 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 257px) 100vw, 257px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-fsb-flexible-spacer fsb-flexible-spacer\"><div class=\"fsb-flexible-spacer__device fsb-flexible-spacer__device--lg\" style=\"height:16px\"><\/div><div class=\"fsb-flexible-spacer__device fsb-flexible-spacer__device--md\" style=\"height:16px\"><\/div><div class=\"fsb-flexible-spacer__device fsb-flexible-spacer__device--sm\" style=\"height:16px\"><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-3509cf4d\">\n\n<p class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-7f1386da gb-headline-text dcs_blueChevron dcs_removeTransform\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.carnegiefoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/beginners_in_classroom.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Purchase<\/a><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-fsb-flexible-spacer fsb-flexible-spacer\"><div class=\"fsb-flexible-spacer__device fsb-flexible-spacer__device--lg\" style=\"height:64px\"><\/div><div class=\"fsb-flexible-spacer__device fsb-flexible-spacer__device--md\" style=\"height:64px\"><\/div><div class=\"fsb-flexible-spacer__device fsb-flexible-spacer__device--sm\" style=\"height:64px\"><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-d723643c gb-headline-text\">March 2014 | Written by\u00a0Susan Headden<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The report explores the causes and consequences of what may be a permanent shift toward a less experienced profession. They leave for many reasons, the report says, but at the top of the list are concerns related to lack of support, such as limited professional development, little helpful feedback on performance that supports improvement, and feeling isolated from colleagues. 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