Tag: teacher mentoring

Brown@65 | Growing Critically Conscious Teachers: The Responsibility of Educational Leaders by Brandi N. Hinnant-Crawford, PhD

In 1935, in the Journal of Negro Education, WEB DuBois posed the question: Does the Negro need separate schools?  His answer foreshadowed the aftermath of forced desegregation when he explained:  “They are needed just so far as they are necessary for the proper education of the Negro race. The proper education of any people includes sympathetic touch between teacher
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Declining Enrollments in Teacher Education Programs Part II Grow Your Own Initiative: A Journey on the Urban Teacher Pipeline by Azaria Cunningham

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
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