Retaining Good Urban Teachers Retaining Urban Teachers Student learning is affected by teachers' qualifications and experience. However, schools that need excellent teachers have an extremely difficult time finding them.
City schools suffer from far more teacher shortages than suburban or rural districts.
Urban teachers work under much different constraints than suburban or rural schools do. Also, the students tend to bring social problems that plague their urban environment into the school. According to urban teachers, better working conditions would improve better teacher attendance, more effort, higher morale, and a greater sense of efficacy in the classroom. Since the effectiveness of urban schools is largely dependent upon such teachers, effort to retain them should be a high priority.