Sentences with phrase «looming teacher shortages»

Today, both are confronted, once again, by looming teacher shortages, especially in high - need schools.

Alternative programs like these are already becoming more popular, especially in states with looming teacher shortages, such as California.

New York has nearly 8,600 fewer active educators than it did five years ago, and the number of SUNY students majoring in education has dropped 50 percent since 2007, fueling fears of a looming teacher shortage across the state.

SUNY Chancellor Nancy Zimpher and state Education Commissioner Mary Ellen Elia were in Buffalo to warn of a looming teacher shortage and to urge students to consider a career in education.

In a statement he made at a news conference with Cuomo, Chase said the program may be a way to help reduce the looming teacher shortage facing our nation.

They see our state's looming teacher shortage crisis as an opportunity to evolve the way we train, compensate and retain talent.

«We are facing a looming teacher shortage and it is due in part to the way we portray the profession,» said Evers in a statement.

The teacher dropout rate is certainly not new, but with the predicted looming teacher shortage, recruiting and retaining excellent teachers who are excited about and committed to teaching students in urban schools is more urgent than ever.

Motoko Rich of The New York Times wrote a feature article for today's print edition on the looming teacher shortage, and that nationwide scramble to fill available teaching positions.

That begins with adequate resources and policies that support smaller class sizes, strengthen peer assistance and review, reinforce positive collaborative district practices, and address the looming teacher shortage.»

But in others, there is a looming teacher shortage that may well spread across the state.

The teacher evaluation system, though technically kicked down the road a bit to high stakes testing advocate Meryl Tisch and other like - minded bureaucrats at the State education department, is already pretty well established at this point, and it is everything we feared as far as escalating the testing regime, disempowering and demeaning educators (including principals), and almost certainly exacerbating the looming teacher shortage.

(from The Hechinger Report) A looming teacher shortage is sending more retired teachers back to the classroom, especially for high - need courses with which those educators may have had little previous experience.

Not exact matches

Recruitment efforts for special education positions — often the hardest jobs for schools to fill — have been forced to focus on out - of - state candidates as the shortage of teachers across California continues to loom.

Back when teacher shortages were looming (in more than the designated teacher shortage areas), the idea of alternative certification was seized upon as a solution.