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Focus on Elevating the Teaching Profession

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Democracy Dies in Darkness

Treating teaching as a valued profession is essential.

By Alan Mather, The Hechinger Report

The Hechinger Report addresses issues of inequality and innovation in education, aiming to highlight methods of improvement and the significance of these changes.

In the late 1990s, while working as an assistant principal in Chicago, I would post a job opening for a physics teacher and receive around 20 applications. Meanwhile, a position for an English teacher might attract as many as 150 applicants.

However, as time passed and I eventually left the district, the scenario had changed drastically. Those same job postings now struggled to attract even one or two qualified candidates.

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