scholarly journals Teacher Shortage and Alternative Licensure Solutions for Technical Educators

2020 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 47-59
Author(s):  
Britton Devier
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Shortage ◽  
Alternative Licensure

Art Teacher Shortage?

1955 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 58
Author(s):  
Kenneth C. Lindsay
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Shortage ◽  
Art Teacher

The Teacher Shortage in the United States

2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-80
Author(s):  
Lindsay Bryner
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Teacher Retention ◽  
Retention Rate ◽  
Teacher Shortage ◽  
The United States ◽  
Personal Safety ◽  
Academic Journals ◽  
The Right ◽  
Education Stakeholders ◽  
Use Of Research

A major teacher shortage exists in the United States. As teachers leave the classroom in droves, administrators are forced to hire unlicensed educators in order to fill vacant positions. Teachers have decided to change professions due to a lack of competitive salaries, fear of personal safety, and a lack of support from education stakeholders. Through the use of research in academic journals and articles as well as personal anecdotes, I attempt to prove that teachers are not being treated fairly, and if the right changes are made then the teacher retention rate can be improved.

But who Will Take Care of the Children? Childcare, Women, and Devalued Labor

1986 ◽  
Vol 168 (3) ◽  
pp. 46-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathy Modigliani
Keyword(s):  
Young Children ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Teacher Shortage ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Comparable Worth ◽  
High Demand ◽  
The Family ◽  
Career Options ◽  
Childcare Center ◽  
Alternative Solutions

This paper considers the salaries, status, and working conditions of childcare employees. A survey of all childcare center workers in one community, and interviews with others from around the country, suggest that wages in this field are low and fringe benefits are rare. Workers' frustrations with compensation and lack of opportunity for advancement are balanced by their strong satisfaction gained from working with young children and their parents. But today's high demand for additional providers, together with new career options for women, has produced a teacher shortage that threatens the well-being of young children. Women's pay inequity, the devaluation of young children, and the privatization of the family are explored as social, economic and cultural factors which contribute to the problem. Alternative solutions are considered, including government subsidies for childcare wages and fees; fee increases for high-income parents-, unionization; comparable worth efforts-, and worker-parent-employer-community advocacy.

The Minority Teacher Shortage: Fact or Fable?

2011 ◽  
Vol 93 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard M. Ingersoll ◽  
Henry May
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Shortage ◽  
Minority Teacher

scholarly journals The Myth of Teacher Shortage in India

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandip Datta ◽  
Geeta Gandhi Kingdon
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Education Policy ◽  
Teacher Shortage ◽  
Allocation Rule ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
National Education ◽  
Public Elementary Schools ◽  
Median Size ◽  
National Education Policy ◽  
The Individual

This paper examines the widespread perception in India that the country has an acute teacher shortage of about one million teachers in public elementary schools, a view repeated in India’s National Education Policy 2020. Using official DISE data, we show that there is hardly any net teacher deficit in the country since there is roughly the same number of surplus teachers as the number of teacher vacancies. Secondly, we show that measuring teacher requirements after removing the estimated fake students from enrolment data greatly reduces the required number of teachers and increases the number of surplus teachers, yielding an estimated net surplus of about 342,000 teachers. Thirdly, we show that if we both remove fake enrolment and also make a suggested hypothetical change to the teacher allocation rule to adjust for the phenomenon of emptying public schools (which has slashed the national median size of public schools to a mere 64 students, and rendered many schools ‘tiny’), the estimated net teacher surplus is about 764,000 teachers. Fourthly, we highlight that if government does fresh recruitment to fill the supposed nearly one-million vacancies as promised in the National Education Policy 2020, the already modest national mean pupil-teacher-ratio of 22.8 would fall to 15.9, at a permanent fiscal cost of nearly Rupees 480 billion (USD 6.6 billion) per year in 2017-18 prices, which is higher than the individual GDPs of 56 countries in that year. The paper highlights the major economic efficiencies that can result from an evidence-based approach to teacher recruitment and deployment policies.

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