The “teacher shortage” is fueled not by lower numbers of individuals entering the field, but by rapidly growing numbers of ...

President and Founder, Proximity Learning. Evan has 15+ years of experience putting students first as a digital education entrepreneur. Teaching has historically been regarded as a noble profession, ...

The time has come where we are being asked by everyone around us, “So, what’s next?” Many of us have just spent the past 17 years — 81 percent of a 21-year-old’s life — in school. Many of us have ...

The annual report points to issues such as a scarcity of certified teachers in subject areas such as general science, physics and chemistry when compared to other fields. Teachers are becoming ...

Long Beach Unified, one of the largest school districts in California, is facing a worrying but all-too-familiar problem: Finding enough qualified teachers, or even substitutes, to fill what some ...

In 1966, the Coleman Report concluded there is a stronger relationship between student achievement and teacher quality than either curriculum or student facilities. Most research today confirms this.

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. This is part one in a two-part series. The second part focuses on potential solutions to ...

I was prompted to consider this issues by “Are Teachers Professionals?” an April 7 posting by blogger Corey Bunje Bower in Thoughts on Education Policy noted by Alexander Russo’s This Week in ...

Louise Williamson has been an educator for more than three decades. But this past school year has been one of her most challenging. For years, the teaching profession has been “crumbling” under the ...

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Re “Districts boost pay for substitute teachers” (Sept. 26): As a veteran classroom teacher I want to thank you for highlighting the dire shortage of substitute teachers in every school district in ...