Month: June 2019

This week Brookings published an Education Plus Development blog written by David Baker and Bryan Mann about their study, “Cyber Charter Schools and Growing Resource Inequality among Public Districts: Geospatial Patterns and Consequences of a Statewide Choice Policy in Pennsylvania, 2002–2014”, which was published in the American Journal of Education in February 2019. The pandemic

Who wants to be a teacher? Why? I would like to answer these questions focusing on high school students who are directly related to the enrollments in teacher education programs. First, we should understand the pipeline to the teaching profession in order to recruit candidates in teacher education programs. Second, most prior studies heavily focused on either college students already

There is a burgeoning teacher shortage in America. The problem entails fewer people preparing to teach and also a high rate of turnover. According to Strauss (2017): A report by the nonprofit Learning Policy Institute found that teacher education enrollment dropped from 691,000 to 451,000, a 35 percent reduction, between 2009 and 2014 — and nearly