Friday, March 16, 2012
This Week In Education: Thompson: Solutions for Teacher Dissatisfaction, Then & Now
This Week In Education: Thompson: Solutions for Teacher Dissatisfaction, Then & Now:
The 2012 Met Life "The American Teacher" survey shows that 29% of teachers are thinking about leaving the profession, which is two points worse than 1986, when teacher satisfaction hit rock bottom. Then, and now, secondary teachers in the inner city voice the greatest dissatisfaction. So, I looked at a 1995 Met Survey to see how education got out of the mess that was created in the mid-1980s by an economic crisis for poor people, in conjunction with a simplistic set of school "reforms." By 1995, The percentage of inner city teachers who voiced the most dissatisfaction had dropped from 30% to 16%. During that time of economic recovery, teachers reported that the percentages of students entering