Not exact matches
High - needs urban and rural schools, on the other hand, offer their
teachers extremely challenging students, unusually
poor working conditions, and
compensation unresponsive to market conditions even within the teaching profession.
This approach simply exacerbates the national and local trend of healthy numbers of Black and Latinx
teachers entering, but quickly exiting the profession because of
poor working conditions and
compensation, and other forms of discrimination.
Most scholars who have studied these issues such as Richard Ingersoll of the University of Pennsylvania and Linda Darling Hammond of the Learning Policy Institute, conclude that the shortages result from
teacher attrition more than the underproduction of
teachers, and that attrition is a consequence of low
teacher compensation and benefits,
poor induction and working conditions, as well the general blaming and shaming of
teachers for the problems of society and the accountability systems that have been developed reflecting this view.
We must first address the root causes of the shortage —
poor working conditions, inadequate
compensation structures, a lack of administrative and community support for
teachers and schools, and invalid and unreliable
teacher evaluation systems that are driving the most talented and experienced
teachers out of the classroom.