Bob’s Blog has posted a useful review of the 2008 “MetLife Survey of Teachers, Principals and Students.” It identifies changes to a similar survey taken in 1984.
Many of the findings are substantially more positive than they have been in the past.
Teachers today are more satisfied in their careers than teachers were in earlier years.
Today more teachers feel respected in society, recognized for their work and better compensated than they have in the past.
They rate the quality of their schools higher, as well as their school’s academic standards and curricula.
Overall, principals agree with teachers on the improvements of career satisfaction and school quality and are generally even more positive than teachers in their assessments.
Bob provides more summary than what I posted from the report’s Executive Summary.
If you don’t take time to skim the report, at least review Bob’s post.
MetLife Survey of the American Teacher: Past, Present and Future (2008.)