New book 'Invested Stayers' tells stories of teachers who overcame early career challenges


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LAWRENCE — Teaching is a challenging profession. Low pay, long hours, reliance on testing, and state and federal mandates make the job difficult, to say nothing of a pandemic that has upended education. Those stressors cause countless teachers to leave the field every year. Yet many others meet the challenges and stay. A new book co-edited by a University of Kansas scholar tells the stories of those who have persisted as stayers in the classroom.