Migrant Teachers : : How American Schools Import Labor /

Migrant Teachers : : How American Schools Import Labor / / Lora Bartlett.

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Migrant Teachers investigates an overlooked trend in U.S. public schools today: the growing reliance on teachers trained overseas, as federal mandates require K-12 schools to employ qualified teachers or risk funding cuts. A narrowly technocratic view of teachers as subject specialists has led distr...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG and UP eBook Package 2000-2015
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Bartlett, Lora,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2014]
©2013
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (202 p.) :; 3 line illustrations, 5 graphs, 3 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Introduction and Overview
  • Part one. The Count, Context, and Conditions
  • 1 The Scope and Pattern of Overseas Trained Teachers in U.S. Schools
  • 2 The Perfect Policy Storm
  • Part two. The Teachers and the Schools
  • 3 Transnational Teacher Motivations and Pathways
  • 4 Navigating Migration
  • 5 A Tale of Two Schools
  • Part three. Implications
  • 6 Teachers' Work
  • 7 Transnational Teacher Migration
  • Afterword
  • Appendix. Investigating Teacher Migration
  • Notes
  • References
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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