Teacher shortages aren’t just a problem for the United States. There’s a “global crisis” in finding and keeping educators.
That’s what education leaders at the United Nations World Summit on Teachers in Santiago, Chile, concluded last week. In a new report unveiled there, a U.N. group estimated countries will need to recruit more than 44 million primary and secondary educators by 2030 to keep pace with demand and replace exiting teachers.
Worldwide, primary school teachers are leaving the classroom nearly twice as fast as they did a decade ago, and fewer young people are entering the profession.