Education
Are Teachers Satisfied?
Teacher dissatisfaction is at an all-time high, according to the recently released MetLife Survey of the American Teacher. Read Education Week’s news coverage of the survey results, as well as bloggers’ reactions to the findings, and be on the lookout for an EdweekTeacher webinar on April 19th.
- Register for the upcoming EdweekTeacher webinar: What Can Be Done To Improve Teacher Satisfaction?
Survey: Teacher Job Satisfaction Hits a Low PointTeacher job satisfaction is at the lowest it's been in more than two decades, likely as a consequence-at least in part-of the economic do...- Click the link below to see the full MetLife survey.
Teacher Survey | MetLife FoundationThis Teacher survey, conducted by MetLife, examines issues and trends affecting the nation's K-12 schools.- Several Education Week bloggers discuss the MetLife Survey results and the survey data.
What Do Teachers Want?Dear Deborah, We heard a lot last month about the MetLife Survey of the American Teacher. It showed that teachers across the nation are d...- Teacher Job Satisfaction...or Lack There of"Teachers are also more than four times as likely now than they were five years ago to say that they do not feel their job is secure." Th...
- The Problem with One-Size-Fits-All Approaches to Teacher QualityToday's debates over teacher evaluation mostly just leave me tired. On the one side, we've got "reformers" who've accurately identified r...
- Killing Teacher Morale Is EasyThe results of the annual MetLife Survey of the American Teacher confirm what has been apparent to anyone who has been paying attention t...
Interpreting the Teacher Job Satisfaction DeclineWriting in The Huffington Post, Kevin Wilner, director of the National Education Policy Center, laments the MetLife Survey's finding that...- 81% of Teachers are Satisfied with Teaching: Going Beyond the Headlines of the MetLife Teacher SurveyPatrick Ledesma is a National Board-certified teacher and School Based Technology Specialist in Fairfax, Virginia, where he focuses on in...
- Teacher Morale PlummetsPrior to leading the National Education Association and the N.C. Association of Educators, John Wilson taught special education for 23 ye...
- K-12 Parents and the Public - Education WeekMichele Molnar is a veteran journalist who has written about education at the local and national levels, as well as about business and co...
