Mediated entry is the process of introducing people to a profession through steps that help them learn to apply their professional knowledge on the workplace. Before mediated entry, the attrition rate for first-year teachers was fourteen percent, but more recently retention rates for new teachers have been better. Integration into the teaching profession includes clinical settings, where prospective teachers gain more classroom experience before beginning to teach students. Teachers unions, education reform groups and the federal legislature support the mediated admissions process because it expands teacher education, leading to better retention and an increase in the number of teachers. students.