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Book SynopsisA technocratic view of teachers as credentialed specialists has led to a growing reliance on migrant teachers, as federal mandates require K-12 schools to employ qualified teachers or risk funding cuts. Lora Bartlett investigates the result: transient teaching professionals with little opportunity to connect meaningfully with their students.
Trade ReviewMigrant Teachers highlights a largely invisible phenomenon in American schools--the hiring of teachers from other countries, and the concentration of those teachers in high poverty schools and districts.
Lora Bartlett places teacher labor markets in global context, opening a new line of research on teachers' work and careers, and compelling us to consider what it means to be a teacher at this time and place. -- Judith Warren Little, University of California, Berkeley
This important study persuasively describes the motivations for teacher migration and the insecurity of their tenure in America, and reveals, for the first time, how dependent some urban schools have become on overseas-trained teachers. -- Rhacel Salazar Parreñas, author of
Children of Global Migration: Transnational Families and Gendered WoesA powerful exploration of a significant and neglected issue in American education.
Migrant Teachers is a very original book. -- John Skrentny, author of
After Civil Rights: Racial Realism in the New American Workplace
