Teach for America and rural southern teacher labour supply: an exploratory case study of Teach for America as a supplement to teacher labour policies in the Mississippi-Arkansas Delta, 2008-2010

Thesis

The recent growth of Teach For America (TFA) has enabled it to substantially expand the teacher labour supply in many rural Southern communities, one of its largest and fastest-growing partnership subsets. Though it is generally accepted that these areas face more severe teacher shortages than most other regions in the country, there is little research as to how these staffing challenges arise or how they might be resolved; TFA’s potential to grow the rural Southern teacher supply thus sig...

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Authors: Dwinal, M

• Publication date: 2012
• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: Oxford University, UK
• Language: English
• Keywords: teacher attrition; Mississippi Delta; teacher labour; teacher shortages; Teach for America; rural education; teacher recruitment and retention; US education
• Subjects: Labour economics; Teaching and teacher education; Economics and education; Education