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Eighty-six percent of U.S. K-12 public schools reported challenges hiring teachers for the 2023-24 school year, with 83 percent reporting trouble hiring for non-teacher positions, such as classroom aides, transportation staff and mental health professionals, according to data released recently by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the statistical center of the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (IES).

Aff. Eighty-six percent of K-12 public schools said they struggled to hire teachers for the 2023-2024 school year, according to data by the National Center for Education Statistics and the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences.

/PRNewswire/ -- Eighty-six percent of U.S. K-12 public schools reported challenges hiring teachers for the 2023-24 school year, with 83 percent reporting...

Fast-tracking reforms and investment in the national statistical system in a mission mode is the need of the hour and cannot be delayed if India wants to once again play an active role in the international statistical fraternity

The committee has also been mandated to provide guidance to conduct pilot surveys/ pre-testing, if necessary, before finalising schedules for data collection.

Stating that all NSS data is prejudiced or biased against urban areas or is not reliable due to sampling design is puerile, akin to throwing out the baby with the bathwater

Exploiting the statistical possibilities of administrative data readily available to India is a challenge whose time has come

Editor’s Note “Broad early modern comparative projects often fail to address Africa at all. A search of the MLAIB [Modern Language Association International Bibliography] finds that the number of pieces published in the last thirty years on the subject of ‘globalization’ is in the thousands, and yet only 5 per cent of them address Africa or African countries. When it comes to eighteenth-century studies, the exclusion is total: not one of the pieces on globalization addresses Africa o...

Editors Note “Broad early modern comparative projects often fail to address Africa at all. A search of the MLAIB [Modern Language Association International Bibliography] finds that the number of pieces published in the last thirty years on the subject of globalization is in the thousands, and yet only 5 per cent of them address Africa or African countries. When it comes to eighteenth-century studies, the exclusion is total: not one of the pieces on globalization addresses Africa or African cou...