Importantly, however, the severity of the shortage differs by the particular dynamics of state - and local -
teacher labor markets with some regions and states experiencing more severe shortages than others.
Not exact matches
Unfortunately, the same
labor -
market trends that have made math and science skills increasingly valuable to students may make it increasingly difficult to attract
teachers with the talent and training necessary to address the challenge.
Unions have been roundly criticized for their opposition to opening up the
teacher labor market so that those
with substantive knowledge but without certification can teach.
This argument begs the question about how large correlations should be to be considered as indicators of adult outcomes, and it also discounts recent research showing that test scores improvements related to effective
teachers were correlated
with gains in adult
labor -
market outcomes.
That lower bound of the estimated effect is what we will use as we calculate the economic worth of a
teacher by combining a
teacher's impact on achievement
with the associated
labor market returns.
In a new paper, the University of Virginia's Daniel Player describes the current state of rural
teacher labor markets, contrasting them
with urban, suburban, and town settings.
She is co-editor of The Handbook of Research on Educational Finance and Policy (Routledge, first edition, 2008 and second edition 2015), and the author of many articles on U.S. education policy,
with a focus on school accountability,
teacher labor markets, charter schools, and early childhood programs.
This evidence is consistent
with a simple theory of
teacher labor markets that predicts that lower quality
teachers will be disproportionately found in schools
with low ‐ achieving, poor and non-white students.
Other research shows that changes in these laws caused the pace of
teachers» unionization to vary considerably, even among states
with very similar
labor markets such as Ohio and Illinois.
One area
with potential to create inefficiencies in its
teacher labor market is pensions.
Her current research is heavily focused on issues associated
with teacher labor markets and education accountability policies.
He found that «laws requiring school districts to engage in collective bargaining
with teachers unions lead students to be less successful in the
labor market in adulthood.
The report compares
teachers with other professionals in the same
labor market of similar age, degree level and hours worked.
Public education doesn't use a «draft» to match new
teachers with schools, but in both teaching and basketball, there's a
labor market with a supply of, and demand for, new talent.
The study's authors say they are unsure why new
teachers are of a higher academic caliber, but suggest that it may have to do
with the
labor market.