{"id":124652,"date":"2022-09-26T14:50:24","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T18:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/ceel\/?p=124652"},"modified":"2022-09-26T14:50:24","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T18:50:24","slug":"dr-jennifer-robinson-remarks-on-teacher-student-diversity-gap-in-new-jersey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/ceel\/2022\/09\/26\/dr-jennifer-robinson-remarks-on-teacher-student-diversity-gap-in-new-jersey\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Jennifer Robinson Remarks on Teacher-Student Diversity Gap in New Jersey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/~robinsonj\">Dr. Jennifer Robinson<\/a>, Executive Director of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/center-of-pedagogy\">Center of Pedagogy<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/newjerseymonitor.com\/2022\/09\/09\/teacher-student-diversity-gap-widens-in-new-jersey\/\">is quoted in this New Jersey Monitor article<\/a>\u00a0about the teacher-student diversity gap that has widened in the state.<\/p>\n<p>The article stated: College costs, the fees required of standardized tests like the edTPA, and other financial stressors make teaching an increasingly impractical career choice, she added.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s especially true for people of color, who already grapple with an entrenched wealth gap, said Dr. Robinson.<\/p>\n<p>Teachers union officials say boosting pay for first-time teachers would help. Starting salaries for teachers with bachelor\u2019s degrees range from $54,000 in Hopewell to $58,000 in Montclair to $61,000 in Jersey City. The average starting salary for most New Jersey teachers is about $56,400, according to the New Jersey Education Association.<\/p>\n<p>The union has a \u201c$60K the first day\u201d campaign that aims to lift starting pay statewide to $60,000 a year, but only 77 of the state\u2019s 600 districts have met that target. (Another 35 have approved contracts that would hit that mark in future years, a union spokesman said.)<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Robinson said policymakers intent on getting more teachers of color into classrooms should focus on removing the profession\u2019s financial barriers.<\/p>\n<p>Teacher certification requires a semester or more of full-time student teaching \u2014 and that\u2019s typically unpaid, she noted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow do you pay tuition, while apprenticing with an experienced teacher full-time and you\u2019re not getting any compensation whatsoever?\u201d Dr. Robinson said.<\/p>\n<span class=\"prpl-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newjerseymonitor.com\/2022\/09\/09\/teacher-student-diversity-gap-widens-in-new-jersey\/\">Read the full story<\/a><\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Jennifer Robinson, Executive Director of the Center of Pedagogy, is quoted in this New Jersey Monitor article\u00a0about the teacher-student diversity gap that has widened in the state. The article stated: College costs, the fees required of standardized tests like the edTPA, and other financial stressors make teaching an increasingly impractical career choice, she added. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":384,"featured_media":120934,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-266_cssee","category-23_college-news-and-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/ceel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/ceel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/ceel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/ceel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/384"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/ceel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/ceel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/ceel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/ceel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/ceel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/ceel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}