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Download full textEspinoza, Daniel; Saunders, Ryan; Kini, Tara; Darling-Hammond, Linda – Learning Policy Institute, 2018
Across the country, districts and schools are struggling to meet the growing demand for qualified teachers. Indeed, there are some subjects--such as mathematics, science, and special education--in which nearly every state is experiencing a teacher shortage. As a result, states often turn to underqualified teachers to fill the vacuum, a problematic…
Descriptors: State Action, Teacher Shortage, Teaching (Occupation), Scholarships
Darling-Hammond, Linda; Furger, Roberta; Shields, Patrick M.; Sutcher, Leib – Learning Policy Institute, 2016
After many years of teacher layoffs in California, school districts around the state are hiring again. With the influx of new K-12 funding, districts are looking to lower student-teacher ratios and reinstate classes and programs that were reduced or eliminated during the Great Recession. However, mounting evidence indicates that teacher supply has…
Descriptors: Teacher Shortage, Teacher Recruitment, Credentials, Educational Policy
Direct linkAdamson, Frank; Darling-Hammond, Linda – Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education, 2011
Students of color in low-income schools are 3 to 10 times more likely to have unqualified teachers than students in predominantly White schools. These disparities in teacher distribution matter greatly: Research consistently shows that teacher quality is one of the most important variables for student success and that teachers with stronger…
Descriptors: Teacher Salaries, Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Qualifications, Teacher Distribution
Darling-Hammond, Linda – 1984
An analysis of data on teachers indicates coming changes in recruitment and retention of the American teaching force, in the quality of teachers, and in the attractiveness of teaching as a profession. New recruits to teaching are less academically qualified than those who are leaving, and shortages of qualified teachers in subjects such as…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Elementary Secondary Education, Faculty Mobility, Futures (of Society)
