Is Mentoring Worth the Money? A Benefit-Cost Analysis and Five-Year Rate of Return of a Comprehensive Mentoring Program for Beginning Teachers.

Anthony Villar is an Associate Researcher, Division of Social Sciences, at the University of California, Santa Cruz, New Teacher Center. Email avillar@ucsc.edu. Michael Strong is the Research Director at the University of California, Santa Cruz, New Teacher Center. Email mastrong@ucsc.edu. The authors would like to thank Carlos Dobkin, Assistant Professor of Economics at UC Santa Cruz, Jennifer Imazeki, Associate Professor of Economics at San Diego State University, Rebecca London, Lecturer in Sociology at UC Santa Cruz, and David Henderson, a research fellow with the Hoover Institution and Associate Professor of Economics at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, for their valuable feedback on earlier drafts of this paper. Is Mentoring Worth the Money? A Benefit-Cost Analysis and Five-Year Rate of Return of a Comprehensive Mentoring Program for Beginning Teachers

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