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The shortage is particularly acute for certain subject areas and in some geographic locations. It is especially severe in schools with high shares of students of color or students from low-income families. The shortage is not a function of an inadequate number of qualified teachers in the U.S. economy. Simply, there are too few qualified teachers willing to work at current compensation levels given the increasingly stressful environment facing teachers.  \nWhy it matters: A shortage of teachers harms students, teachers, and the public education system as a whole. Lack of sufficient, qualified teachers and other staff threatens students’ability to learn and reduces teachers’effectiveness, undermining the education system’s goal of providing a sound education equitably to all children.  \nWhat we can do about it: To end the teacher shortage, we must address the two most pressing reasons for the shortage: the long-standing decline in the pay of teachers relative to other workers with a college degree and the high and increasing levels of stress public school teachers face.  \nSECTIONS  \n1. Introduction • 2  \n2. Teacher shortages are widespread and longstanding • 2  \n3. The teacher shortage is bigger than unfilled or underfilled vacancies • 14  \n4. Main drivers of the teacher shortage • 14  \n5. Conclusion • 22  \nAcknowledgments • 23 Notes • 23  \nReferences • 25  \n1  \nIntroduction  \nFor more than a decade, academics and education policy experts have raised concerns about a widespread shortage of teachers in the United States.1 The first wave of warnings came in response to the drastic cuts in state and local spending on education following the Great Recession. But teacher shortages remained a significant challenge for the nation’s public education system long after the immediate effects of the Great Recession wore off. Most recently, the COVID-19 pandemic ignited a new round of concerns.  \nIn this report, we use data from a wide range of sources to document the size and scope of the teacher shortage. The data show that the teacher shortage is both widespread and acute across several dimensions, from subject matter specialties to school poverty status. We also review data that point to the two most important drivers of the shortage:  \n• the declining compensation in the teaching profession relative to other occupations that employ college graduates  \n• and the increasingly stressful work environment teachers face, a long-standing reality that has been greatly exacerbated by COVID-19.  \nOur key finding is that the current shortage is generally not the result of an insufficient number of potentially qualified teachers.2 The shortage is, instead, a shortfall in the number of qualified teachers willing to work at current wages and under current working conditions. The combination of substandard teacher compensation and highly stressful working conditions has, in recent decades, made teaching a much less attractive profession than alternatives available to workers with college degrees.3  \nLow pay and high stress are, and have been for many years, the major barriers to meeting the national demand for teachers. A shortage of this nature––driven by poor pay and stressful working conditions––will not be ameliorated simply by increasing the potential number of qualified teachers.  \nTeacher shortages are widespread and long-standing  \nResearchers using data from a variety of sources have documented a long-standing and widespread shortage of teachers—overall, by subject area, by racial and ethnic composition of schools’ students, by poverty status, by geography, and by other dimensions.4 In this report, we f","cbCaiob7pi79FDpj","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiob7pi79FDpj","pdf",760764,29,"English","# 1. Introduction\n# 2. Teacher shortages are widespread and longstanding\n# 3. The teacher shortage is bigger than unfilled or underfilled vacancies\n# 4. Main drivers of the teacher shortage\n# 5. 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