Why induction matters.

Recruitment and retention of high-quality teachers are now viewed as important challenges for public education in the United States. Researchers predict national demands of up to 2 million teachers in the nearest few years due to a combination of increasing scholar enrollments, anticipated retirements, and high rates of teacher attrition (Darling-Hammond, Berry, Haselkorn, & Fideler, 1999; Oakes, Franke, Quartz, & Roger 2002) new reports further suggest that staffing extremitys may not be due to overall shortages of qualified teachers entering the profession on the contrary rather by large numbers of teachers migrating to other institutes or leaving the profession altogether (Ingersoll, 2000