University of Houston sociology professor, Gary Dwokin, recently penned an study on teacher burnout. Entitled “Teacher Burnout in the Public Schools: Structural Causes and Consequences for Children” has looked at how education has changed in the past decade. Overall he finds a profession with increasingly passionless teachers stressed by budget cuts and high-stakes testing that impacts their work, but with little or no feedback or responsibility, put back on support from their student’s family’s, the community or institutions that hire them.
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