What are the biggest challenges that teachers and the teaching profession face?
I see two great challenges, and they are issues that affect not just the teaching profession but the efficacy of public education in general. First, we have a gross misdistribution of qualified teachers which, in effect, denies a portion of our public school students access to a high-quality education. Second, accomplished teachers continue to have little voice in creating the policies and programs needed to ensure that every student has a good teacher. Why do you think teachers have so little voice in policy matters where we might assume they have a lot of expertise? Americas teachers have a stormy and convoluted history—often framed by the struggle to determine who teaches what and how, and under what conditions. Over 200 years ago, Americas teachers were hired to transmit values and, to some extent, the basic skills of the day. When women began to dominate the teaching workforce some 150 years ago, the occupations status began to decline. Not much has changed since then. It’s true t
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