Posted on 10/15/2019 8:33:28 PM PDT by DoodleBob
FULL TITLE: The US needs 307,000 more teachers than it currently has — but few are taking the job due to low pay
The student population is growing — and not enough teaching jobs are available to keep up.
A new report found that since the Great Recession of 2008, the country lost 60,000 jobs in education. Not only that, but 247,000 more teaching jobs should have been created to keep up with growing student enrollment as the population increases.
This has resulted in a shortfall of 307,000 teaching jobs — meaning there are over 300,000 educators currently needed right now.
The data sheds light on an ongoing national teacher shortage. Back in 2008, teaching jobs increased at the same pace as student enrollment. Since the Great Recession, or after 60,000 jobs were lost, job creation in education never kept pace with the growing student enrollment.
Other data centers have similarly staggering estimates of the teacher shortage crisis. The independent research group Learning Policy Institute estimated a 112,000 teacher shortage in 2018.
The study uses data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics analyzed by the liberal think-tank Economic Policy Institute. Educator jobs include mostly K-12 public school teachers, but also administrators, guidance counselors, and paraeducator.
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Why are schools not online yet?
I could understand schools for k-4 or 5 but the rest could be done online. eliminate the expensive schools/infrastructure, teaching jobs, etc
Problem solved
Unions won’t like this idea, but the tax payer with an extra 12k a year in his pocket will love it
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Prison Guards get paid better and at least they can defend themselves.
The ratio of students to teachers is ridiculously low. Also, the K to 1 is nothing but taxpayer funded day care. We learned the alphabet and how to read at home before we were 6 y/o.
Liberals have ruined the US system of providing a useful education via revisionist history, dumbed-down testing, eliminating core STEM requirements, etc.
I attended 1-12 from ‘48-’60. Average classroom size was 30-40 students ALL of those years. The teachers were actually able to teach real, core subjects.
Yep. Administrative jobs versus teaching.
If we got rid of the illegals, we wouldn’t need the extra incompetent teachers.
It has nothing to do with teacher pay. It’s the crappy working conditions. Of course, teachers brought it on themselves.
Round up the kids. Round up the parents. Send them back to Central America. Teacher problem solved.
Aside from the occasional teacher who causes the students to dream and create and compete, school is stuck in collectivist malaise. Why would one want to be a part in it?
Duh......Many of the students in a college/uni Education program can barely pass teacher certification tests such as PRAXIS, etc.!
It is all the ridiculous procedures and rules and unreasonable parents and undisciplined children which keep teachers out of the classroom.
All that, plus our inability to properly discipline school kids in school makes the job one people don’t want. This reason is why lesser-paying private school jobs are desirable - then will still apply disciplinary measures, and can and will kick you out if need be.
I would imagine many don’t because of the life threatening situations they are put in, administrations will not prosecute unruly black and brown students. Would you want your wife beat up in the class room and you have no recourse?
I fixed your post. This is pretty much a known fact, and is ALWAYS the case when liberals get their way. Witness the Federal government as another example.
Go back to phonics and disciplined classrooms and you will need far fewer special needs teachers and “reading specialists”.
Also, more sane Americans would be interested in the teaching gig.
You forgot the /sarc tag.
Tracking was always a legitimate strategy.
I’m a Senior Citizen, when I was in grade school, middle and HS, we had 30 kids per teacher with NO aids. Wasn’t a issue back then. Now they have 15-20 kids and can’t teach with out a aid. Paddling was done in front of the other 29. Today you can’t use a paddle even in the Principal’s office.
The study uses data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics analyzed by the liberal think-tank Economic Policy Institute.
It is also especially the case now in higher ed, where most of the teaching is done by adjuncts making pennies and layers and layers of higher paid (and strikingly unintelligent) bureaucrats have been layered overhead.
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