Migrant teachers : how American schools import labor /

Bartlett, Lora, 1967-

Migrant teachers : how American schools import labor / Lora Bartlett. - Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, (c)2013. - 1 online resource

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction and overview -- The scope and pattern of overseas trained teachers in U.S. schools -- The perfect policy storm: colonization, education, and immigration -- Transnational teacher motivations and pathways -- Navigating migration -- A tale of two schools: the transient school and the transplant school -- Teachers' work -- Transnational teacher migration.

" ... Maps the shifting landscape of American education, as federal mandates require K-12 schools to employ qualified teachers or risk funding cuts"--Jacket, page 2..



9780674726345


Education, Urban--United States.
Teachers, Foreign--United States.


Electronic Books.

LC5115 / .M547 2013