IB a Math Teacher posts an interesting OECD chart showing that U.S. teachers spend far more time teaching in front of their classrooms each year than educators in other developed counties. This isn’t exactly something to be proud of, he says: What it shows is that other countries recognize that it’s in the “best interest of the educational system to let teachers have proper time to grade, contact parents, and work with students.”
A version of this news article first appeared in the Blogboard blog.