If current trends continue, we would see as few as 200,000 available teacher hires each year by 2025, resulting in a gap of more than 100,000 teachers annually. (learningpolicyinstitute.org)
Many states and districts are adopting commercially available teacher observation instruments for the professional practice component of their evaluation systems. (coreeducationllc.com)
This gap in access changes little in spite of the policy putting more students in front of effective teachers — because the pool of available teachers in high - poverty schools does not change under this strategy. (caldercenter.org)