For several years now, there has been a surplus of headlines about a teacher shortage in the United States, but a shortage of data about the shape of the issue. Now a new report adds to that body of ...

One-fifth of vacant teacher positions remained unfilled at the start of this school year, according to new federal data. On average, public schools reported having six open teacher positions ahead of ...

This article is part of the collection: Data Bytes: Parsing Education Data Into Snack-Size Servings. New federal survey data on the education workforce shows that a majority of schools had a tough ...

Special education staffing strategies often focus on recruiting and training new teachers in the specialty, but those efforts alone aren’t enough to address shortages in the high-demand field.

Teachers in the U.S. are known for having low salaries, which deters some people from pursuing teaching as a career. But other options exist for people interested in working in education who hope to ...