The Clark County teacher shortage is pretty desperate. Last year they started the year still short 700 teachers – and didn’t have them by the end of the year. That …
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It’s the start of the school year for students everywhere but schools still have vacant positions and are still hiring teachers. Let’s take a quick trip around the country where …
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Everyone asks about student achievement when it comes to our teacher preparation program and we now have an answer. Apparently we had an answer for a while but didn’t know …
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When it comes to teacher preparation, we have seen people get so radically focused on inputs that they ignore what is really going on with people moving into the classroom. …
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New study out on the lack of diversity in the teaching workforce where “while minority children account for half of the nation’s student body in public schools, minority teachers make up …
Read MoreGreat report from Pearson on the reason for the teacher shortage. The report brings together data from Dr. Ingersol: “As a result, the number of teacher retirements has similarly changed, …
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Schools just started in Texas and to be honest we are still scrambling to complete the paperwork at Texas Teachers of Tomorrow to get well over 7,000 teachers placed this …
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Everywhere I go I am asked why people are no longer going into teaching. The statistics are indeed stark – a 42% drop in two years in Ohio, a 70% …
Read MoreI was not able to blog for a while – but my news feed certainly showed that the Teachers Wanted signs are up everywhere in the U.S. Best headline of …
Read MoreWow – this quote says it all about the teacher shortage – “Kirk, who represents the district at several job fairs on college campuses around the state each year, said …
Read More“We’re desperate,” she said. “We’re praying too.” That’s the first thing I saw when I read this article on South Carolina’s teacher shortage that hit a crisis stage this year. …
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When you can’t find teachers, you hire people who are not licensed and put them on emergency waivers. We have seen a startling increase of of the number of teachers …
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