A Path to Equity: Solving New Mexico’s Teacher Turnover Challenges

This white paper frames both the case for and an approach to addressing persistent teacher quality, diversity, and turnover challenges in the State of New Mexico. A growing set of research and promising practice informs the report, which is intended to offer a high-level understanding of the complexities around how the economics of teacher preparation both drives educational inequities and can be shifted to promote educational quality and equity by investing in paid teacher residencies.