Early teacher retirement effect? Better student scores

Tuesday, November 5, 2013 - 09:00 in Psychology & Sociology

Many businesses and organizations offer early retirement incentives (ERIs) to save costs, replacing their more expensive older workers with novices starting at entry-level salaries. In education, it is commonly thought that the cost-savings of such a policy would be offset by the loss of the experience that older workers bring to their job, which would lead to negative effects on student learning.

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