Migrant teachers
Subtitle: how American schools import labor
By: Lora Bartlett
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 187
ISBN-13: 9780674055360
Subjects: Urban Education; Foreign Teachers
Description: " ... Maps the shifting landscape of American education, as federal mandates require K-12 schools to employ qualified teachers or risk funding cuts"--Jacket, page [2].
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-177) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction and overview; title: The scope and pattern of overseas trained teachers in U.S. schools; title: The perfect policy storm: colonization, education, and immigration; title: Transnational teacher motivations and pathways; title: Navigating migration; title: A tale of two schools: the transient school and the transplant school; title: Teachers' work; title: Transnational teacher migration.