There Are No Quick Fixes for Teacher Shortage, Report Warns
April 26, 2017
By: Brenda Iasevoli
Source: Education Week
If you think raising teacher salaries is the way to attract talented young people into the profession, well, that sort of easy-fix, across-the-board solution to the teacher shortage problem will just not do, according to a new report.
Such solutions, say the authors, don’t take into account that shortages do not exist everywhere and in every field. There are, rather, isolated shortages in certain subject areas (like science, math, and special education) and in certain locales (like rural or high-needs schools), and these demand targeted solutions. You can read up on an earlier report examining the origins of the current teacher shortage and the issues exacerbating it here.
The new report, “Understanding and Addressing Teacher Shortages in the United States,” homes in on strategies the authors say will increase the flow of teachers into areas where they’re in shortest supply…