How the Teacher Shortage Could Turn Into a Crisis
Category: EDUCATION
The last 15 years have been marked by top-down education policies that promoted testing over teaching, competition over collaboration, austerity over investment, and scapegoating teachers rather than valuing them. The Every Student Succeeds Act, the new federal education law, moves us in the right direction, but past policies have left their mark.
By Randi Weingarten, ContributorPresident, American Federation of Teachers, 2016-04-17