For more than half a century we have heard about exemplary schools, and how a handful of inspired teachers – over even just one– can “turn around” dysfunctional schools. The latest example comes from the pages of the Economist (2/4/2010:62) which praises Paddington Academy and encourages others to follow suit: “Paddington Academy is a brilliant [...]
Teacher Attrition: From School Turnover to Transnational Migration Teacher attrition has been an area of interest since (Ingersoll 2001) that teacher shortages in the US might actually be related to teachers leaving schools or the field itself, not a shortage of newly trained teachers. An analysis of the Schools and Staffing Survey (Marvell 2007) looked [...]
Autonomy is the mark of a professional. We expect that doctors, engineers or police detectives should be given considerable room to exercise their judgment when they carry out their job. This is not true for teachers in many countries, especially the U.S. in the lower and middle grades. As early as 1969, scholars like Elliot [...]
Yesterday we talked about the difficulty in transferring teacher professional development polices across national boarders. In some nations, teachers have a high status, and policies have tended to promote professional autonomy. In others, teachers have a relatively low status and policies have tended to erode professional autonomy. Could a typology of teacher policy regimes be [...]
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