Catalyst Chicago

Good teachers can be hard to find and harder to keep, but some high-poverty schools do it. At a Catalyst Chicago forum on September 15, Harvard University Prof. Susan Moore Johnson explained how.

Her research findings were echoed by three other speakers who provided insights on teacher turnover in Chicago— Elaine Allensworth, director of the University of Chicago Consortium on Chicago School Research; Sarah Slavin, director of the Chicago New Teacher Center, and Donnell White, a Golden Apple award-winning CPS math teacher...