Sentences with phrase «about teacher shortages»

More distressing notes: Amid growing concerns about teacher shortages, a report from ACT notes that fewer high school grads plan to become educators.

You hear about a teacher shortage across the country, school districts that are opening with vacancies.

There's a lot of talk about the teacher shortage sweeping the nation these days.

There are probably thousands of older teacher candidates, highly qualified (and highly annoyed at not securing employment) shaking their head whenever they read daily news accounts about the teacher shortage.

All too often, journalism talking about teacher shortages makes it sound like there might not be enough teachers to stand in front of classrooms.

We are writing on behalf of the organisations with an interest in the recruitment, training and professional development of teachers to share our concern about teacher shortages and make some constructive suggestions.

That said, a more nuanced national discussion about teacher shortages that acknowledges the specific nature of teacher shortage areas could lead to more innovative policy responses that address chronic shortages in high - need subjects and schools.

Labour's shadow education secretary Lucy Powell called the report «a further wake - up call for the Tory government who have been in denial and neglectful about teacher shortages».

Sir Michael's words come against a backdrop of warnings about teacher shortages, notably from head teacher unions and the National Audit Office.

A poll released today by EdSource and the Learning Policy Institute shows that the majority of California voters are concerned about the teacher shortage facing the state and support the state's taking action to help fix the problem.

However, school reformers have been squawking about a teacher shortage for years.

Alarm bells are sounding about teacher shortages across the country.

After we had a conversation about the teacher shortage, Bruni quoted me in his column as saying: «The No. 1 thing is giving teachers a voice, a real voice.»

The number of vacant secondary places has increased from six per cent last year to 18 per cent, aggravating existing concerns about teacher shortages.

Nationwide, concerns about teacher shortages and the retention of experienced teachers, particularly in certain subject areas and states, have been growing in recent years.

Given concerns about teacher shortages and pressures from the No Child Left Behind Act to staff classrooms with qualified teachers, it makes little sense for districts to nudge experienced, credentialed, and effective teachers out the door at such early ages.

What one Texas - based superintendent learned about the teacher shortage Keith Bryant, superintendent of Lubbock - Cooper Independent School District, discusses the TalentIndex — a collection insights and predictions from hundreds of K - 12 professionals — and what it taught him about the teacher shortage.

GREENE: All right, that's NPR's Eric Westervelt with our Ed team talking to us about a teacher shortage as this new school year begins.

It comes after NUT surveys this month found that three quarters of teachers said their workload had increased since the government's workload challenge in 2014, alongside other concerns about teacher shortages and squeezed funding.

In 2005, the Utah State Office of Education (USOE) and State Board of Regents released a 156 - page report, «The Utah Educator Supply and Demand Study,» concerned about a teacher shortage.

The Chartered College of Teaching has joined together with other organisations that have an interest in the recruitment, training and professional development of teachers to raise their concerns about the teacher shortage and suggest practical solutions to the issue.

There was a lot of news at the time (as there still is) about teacher shortages and some school systems» desperate struggles to find teaching prospects.