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On first day of school, Bay Area districts still seeking teachers

Aug 09 2017
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The Mercury News | Many personnel managers are still laboring over hard-to-fill jobs, particularly in special education, speech therapy, math and science. Facing an acute national teacher shortage, schools have aggressively recruited and offered creative incentives to attract applicants. Increasingly, districts facing the biggest teaching challenges are turning to lightly prepared candidates holding non-standard credentials.

Topics Educator Quality, Educator Quality: Recruitment & Retention
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With Good Reason: Testing Teachers Interview with Linda Darling-Hammond

Jul 28 2017
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With Good Reason talked to LPI President Linda Darling-Hammond for Degrees of Separation, a special series on inequality and education. Darling-Hammond and host Sarah McConnell discussed how teacher assessment can be improved to help students and teachers succeed. Listen to the podcast.

Topic Educator Quality
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Linda Darling-Hammond Discusses Hot Topics in Education on New PBS Series

Jun 23 2017
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On the new tv series, "Inside California Education," Linda Darling-Hammond talks about the teacher shortage and efforts to solve it; the purposes of and approaches to the Common Core State Standards in California and other states; and how and why Smarter Balanced Testing works.
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New PBS Series on California Education Explores the Teacher Shortage

Jun 23 2017
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LPI President Linda Darling-Hammond provides insights into the reasons for the teacher shortage and some efforts to address it, on PBS’s “Inside California Education.” The segment focuses on San Francisco, where layoffs during the recession, the high cost of housing, and intra-state competition created a serious shortage of teachers.
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Teacher Shortage Issue of Phi Delta Kappan Magazine

May 01 2017
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Phi Delta Kappan | LPI Executive Director Patrick M. Shields teams up with Barnett Berry, CEO of the Center for Teaching Quality, on the lead story in Phi Delta Kappan magazine’s May issue on the teacher shortage. The authors look back at successful efforts in California and North Carolina to address earlier teacher shortages, which they suggest offer guidance for solving today’s challenges. The issue includes articles on teacher residencies and recruitment and retention strategies, also by LPI authors.

Topics Educator Quality, Educator Quality: Recruitment & Retention
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Patrick Shields Participates in California Teacher Shortage Hearing

Mar 21 2017
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Learning Policy Institute Executive Director Patrick Shields presented before California’s Assembly Budget Subcommittee on Education Finance on March 21, 2017. His presentation was on research related to California's growing teacher shortage.
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Linda Darling-Hammond in Leo Bottary's Year Of The Peer Podcast

Mar 16 2017
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Leo Bottary, noted author and keynote speaker, interviewed LPI President Linda Darling-Hammond on March 16, 2017 in his weekly Year Of The Peer podcast.
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Using Service Scholarships to Attract and Retain Teachers

Mar 15 2017
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Learning Policy Institute Researcher and Policy Analyst Anne Podolsky presented before California’s Assembly Education Committee on March 15. Her presentation was on research related to the use of service scholarships and loan forgiveness programs to attract and retain teachers.
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California Mulls Eliminating Income Tax for Teachers

Mar 10 2017
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US News & World Report by Lauren Camera | California legislators are hoping a proposal to eliminate income tax for teachers will help attract young people into the profession and keep them there at a time when the state is hemorrhaging educators and lacks a pipeline.

Topic Educator Quality: Recruitment & Retention
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Linda Darling-Hammond Participates in California Teacher Shortage Hearing

Feb 22 2017
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On Wednesday, February 22, Learning Policy Institute President Dr. Linda Darling-Hammond testified at a joint hearing of the California Senate and Assembly Education Committees on the state's teacher shortage. She discussed LPI's analysis of teacher workforce trends and a 2016 survey of California school districts, as well as evidenced-based policies to combat shortages. Watch the recording | Download the slides.

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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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