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Sunday, October 16th, 2016

The Teacher Shortage Crisis Is Here

Author:     Lauren Camera
Source:     U,S, New & World Report
Publication Date:     Sept. 14, 2016, at 9:00 p.m.
Link: The Teacher Shortage Crisis Is Here
Stephan:   Another proof of the Theorem, unfortunately a negative one again.  The pedagogy adopted under the Bush Administration for standardized testing and the attempt to privatize public education through Charter Schools has been a disaster. Not only do American students perform pathetically compared with other developed nations, but these non-wellbeing oriented policies have driven away droves of teachers, and we now face a teacher crisis. Here are the facts. Do I need to mention that in the present current surreal election cycle we have endless hours to spend talking about how a Presidential candidate touched an unwilling women on her vagina through her panties -- God I can hardly believe I just wrote that, or that it is true -- but no time to discuss climate change, or the failing of America's fundamental institutions?
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As students headed back to school this year in and around Tampa, Florida, thousands of teacher positions had yet to be filled. It followed a year in which tens of thousands of teachers were hired on emergency or temporary credentials to help fill empty slots around the country – 900 of them in Oklahoma alone. And in Arizona, which has one of the highest teacher turnover rates in the country, school districts routinely report having unfilled teaching positions three months into the school year.

The teacher shortage crisis is here, at least according to a new report from the Learning Policy Institute, and it stands to get worse.

“We are experiencing what appears to be the first major shortage since the 1990s,” said Linda Darling-Hammond, professor at Stanford University and president and CEO of the institute, a nonpartisan education organization launched last year. “And teaching is, in some respects, as an occupation, at its lowest point in 20 years.”

The report, more than […]

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