Analysis Projects Growing National Shortfall of Teachers

Education Week: Already faced with worrisome hiring gaps, the country is on the precipice of a dramatically widening shortfall of teachers, a new analysis warns.

In a package of reports released Wednesday, the Learning Policy Institute, a California-based think tank led by Stanford University education professor Linda Darling-Hammond, digs into federal data sets to gauge the state of teacher supply and demand, and what it means for school staffing and diversity in the near future.

The trend lines are far from encouraging, according to the group, though not all education experts are convinced of an impending widespread national shortage.

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