U.S. found to recruit fewer teachers from top ranks

10-15-2010

By Liana Heitin/Education Week

Countries with the best-performing school systems largely recruit teachers from the top third of high school and college graduates, while the United States has difficulty attracting its top students to the profession, a new report finds. With more than half of all American teachers today becoming eligible for retirement in the next 10 years, however, the country has a “rare window of opportunity to shape the next generation of teachers,” Byron Auguste, Paul Kihn, and Matt Miller write in the report for the Washington-based management-consulting firm McKinsey & Co. Singapore, Finland, and South Korea draw 100 percent of their teachers from the top third of the academic pool, but in the United States, only 23 percent of teachers come from the top third of college graduates—and in high-poverty schools, that rate drops to 14 percent, the authors write. (more…)

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