Chapter 3: Educators are still struggling with the need for both quantity and quality in the teacher workforce. Schools that serve high-need students suffer high turnover and must attract more teachers with monetary bonuses, service scholarships, and strong mentoring. Service scholarships would help on the quality side as well if they are sufficiently generous to attract more students to a career in teaching so that schools have a stronger potential workforce.
About the Author
Dr. Michael Hansen holds the Herman and George R. Brown Chair in Governance Studies and is a senior fellow in the Brown Center on Education Policy at the Brookings Institution. A labor economist by training, he has conducted original research on a wide array of education policy issues, with a specialization in K–12 teacher policy.
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