The teachers strike in Los Angeles is the first big one of 2019, but likely not the last. An education scholar says low teacher pay and inadequate public school funding will likely spur more strikes.
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Yes, money is one big reason. But teachers also just want to be heard like everyone else and are using methods that have been shown to be effective.
There's been a drop in the number of people enrolling in teacher preparation courses. This is due to problems such as pay, professional autonomy, and a national obsession with standardised testing.
The Oklahoma teachers strike is about more than just pay, but rather a longstanding pattern of decline in funding for the state's public schools.
The recent strike by teachers in West Virginia demonstrates larger issues with pay disparities for rural teachers.
Gratitude for and celebrating of the accomplishments of teachers is essential to keeping them motivated and engaged in the profession.
We need to have fewer teachers, to pay them more on scales differentiated by skill, and to have more restricted entry into teacher education programs.
We have an oversupply of teachers, a lack of specialist teachers and an undervalued profession.
While schools receive an extra $1.2 billion in funding for 2018-20, reforms for higher education are delayed by a further year.
Bring back collective bargaining to help fix the developing teacher crisis.
Plaid hits out at the "smacking defence" in otherwise typical education manifesto.
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Assistant Professor of Higher Education, West Virginia University
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Assistant Professor, University of Bath
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Director of Research and Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, School of Education, University of Nottingham
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Professor of Education Leadership and Management, London Centre for Leadership in Learning, UCL
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Dean of Education, University of Melbourne
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Vice-Chancellor's Fellow, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne
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Executive Director, IRU, La Trobe University
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ARC DECRA Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Education Policy and Sociology of Education, University of Western Australia
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Research and communications director, The Sutton Trust
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Professor/Head of School/Dean of Education School, University of Newcastle
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Director of Research and Deputy Head of Southampton Education School, University of Southampton
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School Education Program Director, Grattan Institute
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Director, Mitchell Institute, Victoria University
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Program Director – Health and Physical Education, Maths/Science, Faculty of Education, University of Tasmania
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