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EdSource by John Fensterwald | California is designating $3 billion to convert thousands of schools in low-income neighborhoods into community schools that comprehensively address students’ needs. “It’s about creating a school with a caring environment in every respect, one that is connected to families,” said Linda Darling-Hammond.
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Higher Ed Dive by Anna Merod | EdPrepLab's Second Annual Virtual Policy Summit explored policy and practice solutions to the ongoing teacher shortage crisis. “Supporting teacher prep programs through regulatory relief is key to addressing the ongoing teacher shortage that is impacting districts nationwide,” said Linda Darling-Hammond.
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EdSource by Diana Lambert | Desire Carver-Thomas discusses how multiple districts in California are navigating teacher shortages during the pandemic as detailed in this LPI report. “A lot of districts want to prioritize student well-being, which is hard to do without a stable workforce,” Carver-Thomas said.
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Around the country, severe teacher shortages worsened by the pandemic have put greater pressure on teachers and administrators to scramble to cover positions. LPI researchers surveyed and spoke with districts across California to reveal the problems they face, explore the drastic measures they are taking to mitigate shortages, and offer state and federal policies address this issue.
Linda Darling-HammondLisa FlookAbby SchachnerSteve WojcikiewiczPamela CantorDavid Osher
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Advances in neuroscience, developmental, and learning sciences shed light on the ways that teaching practice must transform to support the whole child and cognitively complex learning. How can educators be supported to make these shifts? Research sheds light on the content educators need to learn about children’s learning and development, as well as effective strategies to support educator learning and capacity.
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LPI has received a $16 million donation from philanthropists MacKenzie Scott. The gift, along with general operating support from the S. D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation, Heising-Simons Foundation, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Raikes Foundation, and Sandler Foundation and additional funding from many other generous donors, supports LPI’s mission to advance evidence-based policies for equitable and empowering learning.
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Governing by Alan Greenblatt | The effects of COVID-19 on the educator workforce includes not just a shortage of teachers but of substitutes and other school staff as well. Linda Darling-Hammond offers perspective on the teacher shortage and the need to move away from the “old normal” in order to support the educator workforce.
Linda Darling-HammondKevin C. BastianBarnett BerryDesiree Carver-ThomasTara KiniStephanie LevinG. Williamson McDiarmid
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In Leandro v. the State of North Carolina, the Supreme Court of North Carolina found that children have a right to high-quality educators. However, access to a supply of qualified teachers and administrators is increasingly limited and inequitably distributed across the state. Expanding high-quality teacher pipelines and training, updating preparation and professional development, and other strategies could help strengthen North Carolina’s teacher and principal workforce.
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The current staffing crisis in public schools is taking center stage in communities throughout the country. Long-standing teacher shortages, combined with COVID-19-related absences, are stretching schools to the breaking point. Policymakers need to act quickly and strategically to address the mounting crisis and build for the long-term. Research provides a clear roadmap to guide their efforts.
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More than 50 years after the U.S. Supreme Court declared racially segregated schools unlawful in Brown v. Board of Education, educational opportunity and achievement gaps based on race, national origin, and class have endured. Limited protection for education as a civil right at the federal level and uneven protection at the state level have contributed to persistent inequities. Federal and state reforms could offer protection for education as a civil right and remedy racial discrimination.
