A report
on teacher shortages in the U.S. list the following as some of the reasons teachers have elected to leave the profession:
According to the U.S. Department of Education
report on teacher shortages, the teaching areas with the consistent shortage noted nationwide are Special Education, Mathematics, Science and English as a Second Language (ESL).
I published a blog post late last month questioning the numbers in a recent paper
on teacher shortages from the Learning Policy Institute (LPI).
According to officials of the Washington Education Association, no figures are
available on teacher shortages in the state, but the state legislature is gearing up for shortages expected within the next five years.
In her speech to the Labour Party conference in Brighton this afternoon, the shadow education secretary drew battle lines between her and the Conservatives, stating that government education thinking was «dead» and signalling the start of a stronger
campaign on teacher shortages, school places and cuts to sixth form funding.
There are no winners here apart from teaching supply agencies who have been cashing in
on the teacher shortage by charging schools introductory fee payments up to 20 % of a teacher's salary.
A New York Times
story on teacher shortages highlighted Charlotte - Mecklenburg schools» quandary: how to fill 200 teacher vacancies just one month before the start of the school year.
In our
research on the teacher shortage, we found that school staffing problems are more related to preretirement turnover than to retirements (Ingersoll & Perda, in press).
The findings of this report, as well as another newly released report by the
LPI on teacher shortages, will be the topic of a Washington - based conference on Thursday.
Powell accused the government of offering nothing new, saying ministers should focus
instead on teacher shortages, school places and inequalities.
Tom James, who taught in Washington state for 24 years, shares the new perspective he has
on teacher shortages since moving to Hawaii two years...
The Learning Policy Institute (LPI) is out with a new analysis of teacher turnover and its
impact on teacher shortages, showing that the nationwide shortfall of 100,000 teachers predicted in last year's study A Coming Crisis in Teaching?
on teacher shortages in the U.S. list the following as some of the reasons teachers have elected to leave the profession: