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We begin this chapter by discussing key areas where the misalignment of demand and supply results in an inequitable distribution of teachers. These areas include the use or lack of salary and incentives, seniority-based transfers, and improper or corrupt practices. We then offer examples from our research of promising efforts to align the demand and supply sides to ensure greater access by marginalized children to qualified teachers. We discuss the importance of ensuring equity in teacher assignments and transfers, recognizing and acting on teacher preferences, carefully designing incentives, giving voice to marginalized children and their communities, investing in local infrastructure and human capital, and involving civil society to act as an intermediary between the demand and supply sides. Using these examples as a foundation for future action, we offer a set of recommendations to work toward more equitable access of marginalized children to qualified teachers. Finally, we discuss the study’s limitations and offer areas for future research.
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Luschei, T.F., Chudgar, A. (2017). Good Teachers for All: Toward a More Just Distribution of Teachers. In: Teacher Distribution in Developing Countries. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57926-3_6
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