In the US, teacher education as well as teachers have suffered a long history of low respect and support.

A significant aspect of that dynamic, I think, is that the profession in over 70% women.

During the accountability reform movement since the early 1980s, teacher education and teachers have been held accountable without having the autonomy to set the conditions for teaching and learning needed for success.

Here I recommend a new report from the UK: Teacher Education: Time to listen to the experts again.

During the recent rise in “science of” education reform, teacher autonomy and teacher education have been even more significantly eroded, notably with increased education legislation and the shift to scripted curriculum and programs (specifically in reading).

Here are further pieces to consider along with the new report above:

• NEPC review: Teacher prep review: Strengthening elementary reading instruction
• Proposed: NCTE Resolution Statement on Teacher Autonomy
• The Anti-Teacher (and Sexist) Roots of Rejecting Teacher Autonomy
• Beware Scripted Curriculum: More Trojan Horse Education Reform
• Tiered vocabulary and raciolinguistic discourses of deficit: from academic scholarship to education policy, Ian Cushing
• Social in/justice and the deficit foundations of oracy, Ian Cushing
• Teachers Challenging Language Discrimination in England’s Schools: A Typology of Resistance, Ian Cushing and Dan Clayton