Randi Weingarten: Education by the Numbers: "Nearly a third of teachers said they are likely to leave the profession. No other industry would stand for this massive brain drain.
Classrooms are full of children facing hardships and challenges that teachers strive, but sometimes struggle, to address. Years of budget cuts have stripped schools of programs and personnel, swelling class sizes and requiring teachers to do more with less. Teachers are compelled to focus more on standardized testing and paperwork, as opposed to teaching and differentiating instruction to the needs of their students. They are required to implement policies made without their input, then blamed when the policies fail.
The ability of educators to address these challenges has been increasingly threatened and curtailed. A rogues' gallery of governors across the country has used the mantra of "education reform" as a ruse to cut budgets and strip teachers of their voice in their profession. Teachers have even been portrayed in the movies as the villains, leading dedicated educators to wonder how they became the bad guys."
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