This special report explores the factors behind
recent teacher shortages and highlights initiatives designed to improve district hiring processes and tap new pools of prospective educators.
According to the most
recent Teacher Shortage Area Nationwide Listing report, for school year 2016 - 17, all states reported subject - area shortages (some states reported geographic shortages as well).
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And in a
recent study on supply and demand issues, CTF found that 58 % of Canadian school boards surveyed are concerned that an ongoing
shortage of new graduates from
teacher education programs will exacerbate recruitment problems.
In
recent weeks there have been warnings that pupils in some regions may have to be sent home because of
teacher shortages.
Previous predictions of
teacher shortages later in this decade based mainly on demographic projections of increased elementary - school enrollment have been called into question by
recent federal demographic surveys.
The organization, which recruits
recent college graduates to teach for two years in inner - city and rural public schools with
shortages of credentialed
teachers, has raised only $ 3.8 million of its $ 7 million budget for this year, TFA officials said last month.
At a
recent luncheon where he discussed teaching
shortages and training issues, the secretary gave a passionate speech on the need to recruit good
teachers.
Anyone involved in education knows that there is a chronic
teacher shortage and issue that has been insufficiently addressed over many years, so much so that a
recent national audit office report.
It is no secret in the education sector that a crescent of factors have contributed to a
shortage of
teachers in
recent years, and in particular,
teachers who can fill leadership roles.
NYC Program Fast - Tracks
Teachers to Needy Schools Facing
teacher shortages, especially dire
shortages in its neediest schools, the NYC Board of Education is offering mid-career professionals and
recent college graduates a six - week summer
teacher - training program.
I published a blog post late last month questioning the numbers in a
recent paper on
teacher shortages from the Learning Policy Institute (LPI).
While these stories (e.g., Partelow, 2016; Rich, 2015) and a highly - publicized
recent report (Sutcher et al., 2016) generally discuss
teacher shortages as a national problem, we argue that the popular conception of a «
teacher shortage» is not borne out by historical data; in fact, the production of newly - minted potential
teachers has increased steadily over the past several decades, and only about half of these
recent graduates have been hired as public school
teachers in a typical year.
Fortunately,
recent California legislation demonstrates a concern for addressing the worsening
teacher shortages through funding recruitment efforts, 4 - year integrated bachelor degree and teaching credential programs, and up to 5 years of postsecondary and
teacher preparation training for classified staff.2016 — 17 state funded grant programs: Announcement of awards.
Nationwide, concerns about
teacher shortages and the retention of experienced
teachers, particularly in certain subject areas and states, have been growing in
recent years.
Many
teachers raised concerns about age discrimination relating to the current
teacher shortage after a
recent post.
NSBA's Center for Public Education's
recent report, Fixing the
teacher shortage pipeline, finds that while the nation as a whole is awarding more
teacher licenses, making progress on this issue lies in getting the right
teachers with the right qualifications to where they are needed the most.
Recent media reports of
teacher shortages across the country are confirmed by the analysis of several national datasets reported in this brief.
With the
recent reports of a
teacher shortage in America, a vital conversation about how to attract more new
teachers has started.
Speaking at a
recent Westminster Education Forum seminar, Darren Northcott, a representative of the NASUWT union, warned the
shortage of
teachers willing to take on exam marking will continue to worsen unless the
teacher «workload crisis» is addressed.
The
shortage in particularly hard - to - staff districts has been apparent at
recent state - sponsored
teacher recruitment job fairs held in Jackson.
The National Foundation for Educational Research published a
recent analysis of the
teacher shortage, showing that there were more
teachers than ever before, and that drop - our rates were not unusually high - but the level of recruitment was still not keeping up with the soaring number of extra pupils.
The governor's statement also claimed the governor's budget — which he's expected to reveal in its entirety later this month — would bundle in $ 2 million for a scholarship program for 300 students to earn education degrees in teaching math and science at in - state universities, part of an effort to address massive
teacher shortages in the state in
recent years.
The
recent strike of 20,000 West Virginia
teachers protesting pay so low that some qualify for food stamps (Jorgensen & Sterling, 2018) might prompt the question: Are
teacher shortages simply about low
teacher pay?
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Recent research by LPI and many others makes it clear that there are mounting
teacher shortages across the nation.
In another
recent report, Solving the
Teacher Shortage, LPI lays out the most common reasons why
teachers leave the profession and provides federal, state, and local policy recommendations for attracting and retaining strong
teachers.
According to a
recent study by the non-profit Learning Policy Institute, 75 % of California school districts reported having a
teacher shortage for this school year.
In an effort to address the male minority
teacher shortage, a new program offers
teacher training to
recent black and Latino male graduates with hopes that they will launch a teaching career in urban schools.
Keeping high performing
teachers is especially critical in California, where three out of four school districts reported having a
teacher shortage for this school year, according to a
recent study by the Learning Policy Institute.
It is widely believed that schools are plagued by
shortages of
teachers, primarily due to
recent increases in
teacher retirements and student enrollments.
A
recent, widely read New York Times feature by Motoko Rich helped focus needed attention on some of the economic forces that have contributed to a national
teacher shortage, among them low pay and the burden of student loan debt.