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Shortage of Teachers Impacts High School Rankings

Teachers and Their Place and High school rankings

The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) specifically determines the quality of teachers in a school as one of the basis for high school rankings. According to the provisions of NCLB, teachers are required to be highly qualified to teach core academic curriculum, and are required to prove their competency through tests. Teachers need to have a bachelor’s degree and must demonstrate their proficiency through completion of an academic major. Finding such teachers is proving to be easier said than done. Qualified teachers are hard to find and this shortage has inevitable repercussions on high school rankings for those institutions that fail to attract and retain top quality teachers.

High School Rankings and Under Qualified Teachers

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Why Educators “Teaching To The Test” Are Destroying Student Learning & Teacher Individuality

I’m a Kindergarten Teacher and my partner is very open to allowing me to “do things according to my own style” of teaching. However, statewide and nationwide that doesn’t seem to be the norm anymore, and it’s destroying teaching and student learning as we know it.

Just take a look at your own “best” teachers growing up. Didn’t they all kind of “do their own thing” rather than just read out of a textbook to peak your interest?

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