Many Black teachers were pushed out of classrooms from the 1950s through ‘70s. Despite new recruitment programs, the teacher workforce remains mostly white.
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Teachers feel unsupported by their schools.
The reasons why people do not become teachers are not the same reasons why people leave the classroom.
Declining interest in the teacher profession and recent Trump administration budget cuts pose challenges to developing a diverse educator workforce.
Maths degrees are becoming less accessible to the people who are likely to go on to become teachers.
Pay is important not only in recruiting teachers, but also in ensuring they stay.
Schools will no longer get a headline grade of outstanding, good, requires improvement or inadequate.
What the new Labour government really needs to tackle is ways to stop trained teachers quitting.
The pandemic led many teachers to leave their jobs − a trend that could continue if education leaders don’t address issues that affect morale.
In a new project, we are talking to Aboriginal high school students and teachers to understand how to encourage more Aboriginal people to become teachers in the Northern Territory.
It could be argued that teachers who have remained committed to the profession are the ones who most deserve a reward, not new entrants.
Some government reforms to initial teacher training appear to have actually suppressed the number of people who can be trained.
Bonuses for new teachers won’t fix the reasons people leave the profession.
Looser requirements for teacher certification don’t fix teachers’ problems, which are low pay, high workload and lack of respect.
The first challenge is to attract new teachers, the second is to keep them. More pay might help with recruitment, but research suggests we need to look at the conditions of work to stem the losses.
What South Africa needs to do to recruit the number of teachers needed to offer quality education.
Culturally-responsive student assessment and evaluation is key to student success in diverse, globalized societies.
The New Zealand government’s strategy to import teachers from the UK, Canada, South Africa, Australia and Fiji will do little to improve representation for indigenous Māori in the teacher workforce.
Private school teachers are generally happier than state school teachers, but not for the reasons you might think.
Recruiting specialist teachers takes more than just encouraging them to study science and maths at university. Governments and wider society needs to come on board too.
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Assistant Professor of Behavioural Science, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
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Professor of Education Research, School of Education, University of Birmingham
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Associate Professor of Education (Science Education), Deakin University
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Professor of Educational Psychology, University of Sydney
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PhD candidate, University of Cambridge
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Associate Professor, Centre for Wellbeing Science, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, The University of Melbourne
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Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Education, Murdoch University; Professor of Measurement, Assessment and Evaluation, Murdoch University
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Director of LitPlus, AUT School of Education, Auckland University of Technology
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Researcher in TESOL & Literacy, University of Notre Dame Australia
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2024 ACSES First Nations Fellow, Senior Lecturer in Indigenous Knowledges, Charles Darwin University
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Lecturer, Charles Darwin University
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Associate Professor of Education, Iowa State University
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Professor of Education and Public Policy, Durham University
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Professor of Political Science, Macalester College
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Professor of Education, Monash University