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