Profiles in Improvement: How Illinois Developed a Data System to Advance Teacher Preparation
States can learn from Illinois’s efforts to build a system that focuses stakeholders on ensuring a robust and diverse teacher workforce.
Educators
Women Brought Kindergarten to America
Women played a consequential role in advancing kindergarten education in the United States.
Increasing Teacher Salaries is a School Funding Issue
Increasing teacher salaries is a popular, bipartisan idea. But the raises teachers actually see depend on the school funding policy context.
Improving Data Collection Could Be One Key to Solving the Teacher Shortage Crisis
Solving teacher shortages nationwide cannot happen without more consistent, comparable, and accessible teacher workforce data.
Making Sense of Classroom Limitations on Race and Gender: A Review of the 2022 American Instructional Resources Survey
New America reviews the findings of the 2022 AIRS, exploring how teachers are responding to classroom limitations on race and gender.
Cultural Relevancy meets Open Education
Students learn best when they have educational materials that reflect their own backgrounds and open windows for seeing differences.
New Research Suggests Ways to Improve Every Stage of Diverse Teachers’ Careers
A recent report from RAND recommends ways to address barriers at all stages of the teacher career pipeline when recruiting teachers of color
What Role Does the U.S. Department of Education Play in Addressing Teacher Shortages?
A report from the Government Accountability Office examines teacher shortages and how the US Department of Education is addressing the issue
Building Pathways to Earning California’s PK-3 Credential
Accessible teacher preparation programs for the current ECE workforce will ensure they have a chance at new TK jobs