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Commentary
6.13.2024
Curriculum & Instruction, Governance, Teachers & School Leaders

Poland proves that education matters

Terry Ryan

Poland has been the economic tiger of Europe in recent decades and one of the fastest growing economies in the world over that time. In 1990, when I taught high school in a rural Polish town located in Silesia between Poznan and Wroclaw, Poland’s GDP was less than Ukraine’s.

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Commentary
6.13.2024
Evidence-Based Learning, Governance, Teachers & School Leaders

Is performance-based licensure a viable solution for teacher vacancies?

Heena Kuwayama

Forty-five percent of U.S. public schools report feeling understaffed, 70 percent report that too few candidates are applying to teaching vacancies, and 86 percent report challenges hiring teachers in the 2023–24 school year.

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