The ONLY Way To Fix America’s High Schools (and help higher education in the process)
Merge High School with State Universities and Community Colleges
Consider just a few of the obstacles facing America’s High Schools. It’s a mess.
-A Staggering Teacher Shortage
The nation is facing a massive teacher shortage that is destined to get worse. While an aging foundation of educators retire, new teachers are emerging more slowly from University systems than demand requires, and they aren’t staying after they arrive.
While the old cohort of Boomer teachers — an extensive, unionized, and exhaustedly aging population — is tumbling into retirement at record levels, younger teachers are abandoning the field even faster. Nearly two-thirds of the teachers leaving are doing so before retirement age.
Simultaneously, according to a significant study from the Learning Policy Institute, there’s been a 35% decline from 2009 to 2014 in new students enrolling in teacher preparatory programs. The analysis estimated 2015’s teacher shortage at nearly 60,000, with no sign that the factors affecting the trend will soon reverse.
-Crippling Morale
A decade of teacher bashing, administrative power grab, stagnating pay, swelling…
