In a recent interview with The 74, Stanford University economist Eric Hanushek called for responding to the “current learning losses of the COVID cohort” by assigning a few more students to the most effective teachers, paying them more with ESSER funds and buying out the contracts of the least effective educators. We have a different […]
Last year’s back-to-school headlines were dominated by concerns about teacher shortages. It doesn’t take a crystal ball to predict that, without meaningful policy changes, staffing challenges will continue to undermine U.S. education and shortchange the country’s students. A growing number of states are seeing increased teacher turnover, and a new national scan of 2020-22 state-level […]
Summer break offers a timely moment to take a step back and check in with teachers, to ask: “How are you really doing?” We posed this question to 1,000 teachers in our April 2023 annual survey of educators from across the country, and their responses align with our own everyday experiences: Teachers are not doing […]