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Teacher shortages: where the numbers stand and what may ease them
Federal surveys found 45 percent of public schools with open teaching posts in 2022; the evidence blames low pay, weak support, and burnout, and points to two kinds of fixes.

Federal surveys found 45 percent of public schools with open teaching posts in 2022; the evidence blames low pay, weak support, and burnout, and points to two kinds of fixes.

The literacy rate in the US is a skill ladder, not a pass-fail count. What the 2023 federal numbers show, and why method changes blur the trend.

Decades of research point to one skill at the center of learning to read — and it explains why classrooms keep changing.