Teacher shortage

Tyler Wright teaches 4th grade math at Stono Park Elementary School in Charleston, S.C., Friday, Nov. 18, 2022. America's teacher workforce has long been whiter than its student body. In South Carolina, Charleston County aims to increase the number of Black male teachers in the classroom — 60 more in the next three years. While teacher vacancies are affecting all educators, experts say if South Carolina wants its Black students to succeed, it can't afford to lose any more Black men in the classroom. (Grace Beahm Alford/The Post And Courier via AP)

South Carolina program aims to boost ranks of Black teachers

A program in Charleston is trying to make the teaching profession more accessible to Black men, who are vastly underrepresented in classrooms in South Carolina and around the United States.
 
Westwood High School English teacher Jeff Hall, top center, monitors his class, Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2022 in Mesa, Ariz. Like many school districts across the country, Mesa has a teacher shortage due in part due to low morale and declining interest in the profession. Five years ago, Mesa allowed Westwood to pilot a program to make it easier for the district to fill staffing gaps, grant educators greater agency over their work and make teaching a more attractive career. The model, known as team teaching, allows teachers to combine classes and grades rotating between big group instruction, one-on-one interventions, small study groups or whatever the team agrees is a priority each day. (AP Photo/Matt York)

In 1 classroom, 4 teachers manage 135 kids -- and love it

 
Lety Vargas, a newly hired English Language teacher at Russellville Elementary School, in Russellville, Ala., coaches small groups of students on her first day of school, Aug. 9, 2022. For years, rural Russellville's Central American population has grown, with immigrants moving to town to work at the local chicken processing plant. Now, some Spanish-speaking adults who graduated from that same school system are returning to teach students, hoping to give today's English learners a better experience. (Rebecca Griesbach/AL.com via AP)

How one small town is teaching English to kids of immigrants

 
Paige Hicks, teacher and Athens City Educator (ACE) leader, discusses ethics scenarios as preservice teachers took an ethics seminar provided by the Athens State college of education, Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2022, in Athens, Ala. The seminar aimed to help prepare prospective teachers for real-world issues in the education workplace. (AP Photo/Vasha Hunt)

With teachers in short supply, states ease job requirements

 
Fatima Nunez Ardon, a teacher in training, teaches Spanish to second graders at Madrona Elementary School in SeaTac, a suburb in Seattle, Wash., Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2022. Ardon went through a program at Highline College, a community college, to train to be a teacher. (Ellen M. Banner/The Seattle Times via AP)

To fill teacher jobs, community colleges offer new degrees

 

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Timothy Allison, a collaborative special education teacher in Birmingham, Ala., works with a student at Sun Valley Elementary School on Thursday, Sept. 8, 2022. The school district is struggling to fill around 50 teaching spots, including 15 in special education, despite $10,000 signing bonuses for special education teachers. (AP Photo/Jay Reeves)

Teacher shortages are real, but not for the reason you heard

Everywhere, it seems, the return to school has been shadowed by worries of a teacher shortage. The U.S. education secretary has called for investment to keep teachers from quitting.