An education expert explains why he thinks that teachers leaving the profession is at the heart of the current teacher shortages. And he offers advice on how to retain experienced educators, while making it a more attractive career to young people.
Tim Slekar notes and links. Additional Wisconsin Public Radio appearances: February, 2019.
The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, long lead by our new Governor, Mr. Tony Evers, has waived thousands of elementary teacher reading content knowledge tests [Foundations of Reading]. This, despite our long term, disastrous reading results.
This test – our only teacher content knowledge requirement – is based on Massachusetts’ very successful MTEL standards.