The COVID-19 pandemic sounded alarms about the precarity of the U.S. teacher workforce as educators reported high levels of burnout, stress, and job dissatisfaction. A 2022 National Education Association survey found that 55% of teachers were thinking about leaving teaching “sooner rather than planned.” These trends paint a troubling picture for the future of education.
In new research, Erica Harbatkin and Tuan D. Nguyen utilize statewide administrative data from Michigan linked with unique survey data to examine teachers’ intentions to leave, whether they did, and the role of school conditions in their decisions.
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Climate change isn’t just about emissions. “Even with a global crash program to cut emissions—which is essential—climate change will worsen for at least the next two decades. We need national strategies that can help us bounce back from increasingly devastating hits,” argue David Victor and Veerabhadran Ramanathan inThe Los Angeles Times.
Reimagining research with girls. As the world continues to struggle toward achieving gender equality, relevant gender-specific research and programming are necessary to learn from marginalized girls and uplift them, say Ellen Wang, Claudia Hui, and Atenea Rosado-Viurques.
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