{"id":994,"date":"2023-02-17T12:00:27","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T13:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=994"},"modified":"2023-03-02T20:34:18","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T20:34:18","slug":"education-watch-why-we-have-a-teacher-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=994","title":{"rendered":"Education Watch: Why We Have a Teacher Shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/reforminggovernment.org\/education-watch-why-we-have-a-teacher-shortage\/\">https:\/\/reforminggovernment.org\/education-watch-why-we-have-a-teacher-shortage\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>From Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Only 54% of potential elementary school teachers pass the final reading test and become a teacher, an all-time low. Only 34% of non-White graduates do.<\/p>\n<p>Only 77% of college students who start a teaching program in Wisconsin become teachers, 4th out of 6 in the Midwest.<\/p>\n<p>Surprisingly, roughly the same number of Wisconsinites are in teacher programs as 2010, 1st out of 6 in the Midwest. Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/dpi.wi.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/imce\/education-workforce\/pdf\/2021-wi-epp-annual-report.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2039\" src=\"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Quinton-e1660321888133-300x300-1.jpeg\" alt=\"Quinton Klabon\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Additional context from IRG Senior Research Director Quinton Klabon:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2192 Our teacher shortage is driven largely by teachers being prepared poorly by our universities, not fewer wanting to enter the progression. This is likely a surprise to all sides of the debate.<\/p>\n<p>\u2192 Of our 5 biggest programs, UW-La Crosse has a 60% reading test passage rate, UW-Whitewater has 38%, UW-Eau Claire has 70%, UW-Oshkosh has 41%, and UW-Milwaukee has 47%.<\/p>\n<p>\u2192 We must treat teachers as a critical, respected profession! This is the opposite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/reforminggovernment.org\/education-watch-why-we-have-a-teacher-shortage\/ From Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction: Only 54% of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-institute-for-reforming-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=994"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":996,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994\/revisions\/996"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}