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The job Americans won't take: Arizona looks to Philippines to fill teacher shortage

Sep 05 2018
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The Guardian by Terry Greene Sterling and Jude Joffe-Block | “Teaching has become a much less attractive profession,” LPI President Linda Darling-Hammond tells The Guardian. Because of this, fewer Americans with college educations are becoming teachers. To fill classrooms, schools in almost every state have hired qualified teachers from abroad, like the schools in Casa Grande, AZ, that have hired several teachers from the Phillipines.

Topic Educator Quality: Recruitment & Retention
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How States Across the Country are Dealing With Teacher Shortages

Aug 29 2018
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Pacific Standard by Dwyer Gunn | On the first day of the 2016–17 school year, 6% of SFUSD classrooms didn't have a teacher. One year later, and 99% of the classroom vacancies were filled. Gunn writes about the teacher shortage problem that SFUSD and other districts across the country are dealing with, and what they are doing to fix them.

Topic Educator Quality: Recruitment & Retention
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As Illinois tackles teacher shortage, research points to loan forgiveness

Aug 27 2018
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St. Louis Public Radio | Illinois, like many states across the country, is experiencing teacher shortages. Governor Bruce Rauner recently signed legislation intended to alleviate these shortages. Lee Gaines spoke to LPI President Linda Darling-Hammond about which policies are actually successful at solving teacher shortages.
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School's back in session, but many teachers aren't returning

Aug 23 2018
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CBS News by Aimee Pichee | Students across the country are returning to school, but many of their teachers aren't. More teachers are leaving the profession and fewer students are studying to become teachers, leading to teacher shortages. LPI President Linda Darling-Hammond offers insights into what's causing the shortages and how policymakers can work to fix them.

Topic Educator Quality: Recruitment & Retention
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How this Chicago after-school program helped shift the arc of kids’ lives — for the long term

Aug 13 2018
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Washington Post | How did Chicago's CYCLE program of the 1980s–90s help disadvantaged students beat the odds, with impacts lasting through middle age and beyond? LPI senior fellow David Kirp says the program's success was due to the strong emphasis it placed on relationship building between students and staff.
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How do high-performing countries prepare and support teachers?

Aug 03 2018
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Education Dive by Linda Jacobson | At the National Conference of State Legislatures’ annual summit, LPI President Linda Darling-Hammond shared lessons the U.S. can learn from high-performing countries on how to recruit and retain high-quality teachers.

Topic Educator Quality
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The Evidence is Clear: More Money For Schools Means Better Student Outcomes

Aug 01 2018
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NEA Today by Kira Barrett | There is a persistent belief that school funding makes little or no difference on student success. Bruce D. Baker, professor of education at Rutgers University, says these beliefs are based on outdated and faulty research, and explains why more money means better outcomes for students.

Topic Equitable Resources and Access
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‘Teaching is the profession on which all other professions depend’: Linda Darling-Hammond on transforming education

Jul 21 2018
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Standford Education News | LPI President and CEO Linda Darling-Hammond offers her top five recommendations for how to transform education in America in an interview on Stanford Radio's School's In program.
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City Visions, KALW Radio: “What to Do About the Teacher Shortage”

Jun 18 2018
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KALW City Visions | LPI State Policy Director Tara Kini joined a panel on KALW’s City Visions and discussed the teacher shortage in the Bay Area, what can be done to better prepare and support teachers, and how we can recruit and retain teachers.

Topic Educator Quality
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Community Schools: A Promising Foundation for Progress

Jun 11 2018
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American Educator by Anna Maier, Julia Daniel, Jeannie Oakes, and Livia Lam | This article chronicles the history of community schools, identify the key pillars associated with high-quality schools, and discuss how they can be a comprehensive strategy for school improvement.

Topics Equitable Resources and Access, Deeper Learning, Deeper Learning: School Organization & Design

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Op-ed: Trump “safety” commission proposals could undermine school safety

Dec 12 2018

The Hill by Linda Darling-Hammond and Christopher Edley | The Trump administration's school safety commission released a report December 18, 2018, that recommends rescinding the Obama administration's guidance on school discipline, which has helped states substantially improve school safety. Previous to the release, Linda Darling-Hammond and Chris Edley warned that rescinding the guidance will make schools less safe, and that solid research on children’s safety should trump politics.

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Teacher Vacancies Impacting Chicago-Area Students and Taxpayers

Nov 27 2018

NBC Chicago by Chris Coffey and Ron Campbell | The solution to keeping your school’s best and brightest teachers from fleeing the classroom: better working conditions, more administrative support and higher salaries. That’s according to education policy experts who are urging the nation’s school districts to invest in teachers now in order to reverse troubling turnover rates.

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Teachers are seeing their colleagues leave the profession at an alarming rate, and this might be why

Nov 15 2018

Insider by Kelly McLaughlin | Educators are seeing record-high turnover in their schools in recent years. An LPI study found that turnover rates are higher for teachers in schools serving large concentrations of students of color. The study also suggests that the reasons teachers leave include lack of administrative support, low salaries, accountability pressures, working conditions, and lack of advancement.

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