's Driving Teachers Away From High-Poverty Schools? By John Papay

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In the article “What’s Driving Teachers Away From High-Poverty Schools?” written by John Papay, teaching high-need students teachers have to encounter with a vast amount of pressures and challenges. Working environments or conditions are more consequential than facilities and textbooks even though they are also important. Social conditions of work which include the principal’s leadership, the support of colleagues, and the school culture, appear to be the priority for most for teachers’ satisfaction and needs. In other words, teachers stay when they have a supportive and effective principal, work well with their colleagues, and teach in schools with high levels of trust and respect among teachers and students [2]. That is especially true for