{"id":244,"date":"2016-01-10T15:12:39","date_gmt":"2016-01-10T20:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spatialdeterminants.com\/2016\/01\/10\/clear-the-way-for-more-good-teachers\/"},"modified":"2025-04-29T10:04:52","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T14:04:52","slug":"clear-the-way-for-more-good-teachers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/determinants\/2016\/clear-the-way-for-more-good-teachers\/","title":{"rendered":"Clear the Way for More Good Teachers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Clear the Way for More Good Teachers\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>This article has some great food for thought regarding university student success, retention, and attraction. In too many universities the focus has been (primarily) on marketing and recruitment, on the administrative side. I&#8217;ve seen many studies showing the relative growth of administration costs compared to teaching costs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I offer a simple hypothesis in response: Many of our problems \u2014 retention, class attendance, educational success, student happiness and well-being, faculty morale \u2014 might be ameliorated by ratcheting down the bureaucratic mechanisms and meetings and hiring an army of good teachers. If we replaced half of our administrative staff with classroom teachers, we might actually get a majority of our classes back to 20 or fewer students per teacher. This would be an environment in which teachers and students actually knew each other.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/Clear-the-Way-for-More-Good\/234773\">http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/Clear-the-Way-for-More-Good\/234773<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article has some great food for thought regarding university student success, retention, and attraction. In too many universities the focus has been (primarily) on marketing and recruitment, on the administrative side. I&#8217;ve seen many studies showing the relative growth of administration costs compared to teaching costs. &#8220;I offer a simple hypothesis in response: Many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[33,45,46],"class_list":["post-244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-highered","tag-education","tag-new-brunswick","tag-policy"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/determinants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/determinants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/determinants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/determinants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/determinants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/determinants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":287,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/determinants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions\/287"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/determinants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/determinants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/determinants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/determinants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}