by Sarah Green | Jul 24, 2016 | Student Issues, Teacher Issues
Educational news often talks about student truancy as an epidemic, a growing threat to student progress. But there’s another kind of absenteeism doing its own quiet harm – teachers. In Nevada, it’s a serious and growing problem. According to a 2016 study...
by Sarah Green | Dec 15, 2015 | News
Just a matter of weeks before school started in September this year, New Mexico schools put out an emergency call for more teachers. Just one district cited a shortage of more than 250 teacher positions open. And that wasn’t the first year, either. Like many...
by Sarah Green | Oct 9, 2015 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
A new study published in The Journal of Law and Economics compares Florida teachers who came to teaching through a traditional education program with those that came from a background where a bachelor’s degree in education was not mandatory. The study found that...
by Sarah Green | May 19, 2015 | Teacher Issues
Every college graduate right now knows (or should know) that they are being tipped out into a glutted market. But few job markets are worse than early childhood education, according to the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ). In an article published in USA...
by Sarah Green | Apr 17, 2015 | News, Teacher Issues
Some recent studies have pointed out something that should seem pretty obvious: teachers continue to improve as they gain experience in the classroom. While it should seem obvious that professional development continues as people become more experienced, the received...
