BY MEANS OF MAIL QUESTIONNAIRES AND CAMPUS VISITS, DATA WERE OBTAINED FROM 42 COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES ON RECRUITMENT PROGRAMS FOR POTENTIAL TEACHERS AND TRAINING PROGRAMS FOR TEACHING ASSISTANTS. ONLY FOUR OF THE INSTITUTIONS SURVEYED REPORTED CONTINUING, SYSTEMATIC RECRUITMENT EFFORTS, THE OTHERS DEPENDING ON INFORMAL TEACHER-STUDENT CONTACTS.…

Effective school leadership, in the form of a dedicated, skilled principal, is a key element in creating and maintaining high quality schools. Improving school leadership is particularly important for poorly performing schools. The passage of the federal "No Child Left Behind" legislation and Michigan's Education YES! School…

Discusses a job fair held by Collegiate Employ-Net, a consortium of colleges and universities in Ohio and Michigan. Explains the benefits of 15 institutions of higher education working together, as well as the weaknesses of the collaboration. The consortium holds an annual job fair and has expanded its services to include additional methods of…

Author uses a benefit-cost model in analyzing socio-economic determinants in teacher movement and attrition. (LN)

Purpose: Teacher hiring decisions have far-reaching consequences for a school, its students, and faculty. This article examines how new teachers in four states are hired and explores whether the process leads to good matches between these individuals and their schools. The authors conceive of hiring as a two-way process and examine the extent to…

The purpose of this study was to determine the practices used by community colleges in the State of Michigan to recruit, hire, and prepare part-time instructors in vocational-technical education, and to compare certain attitudes on six selected variables. Administrators of programs at twelve colleges were interviewed and the Minnesota Teacher…

A sound and slide show was produced at Parchment (Michigan) High School to show the community foreign language learning in their own school system. The program was designed to portray the nature of the local foreign language program and to increase support for and enrollment in the program. (Author/SW)

Residence life programs play a key role in recruiting students, helping them make a successful transition to a new institution, and in retaining them, whether students are enrolling for the first time, transferring from another institution, or entering graduate school. Chapters in this book address theories of learning and development, new…

The report provides information on the special education professional personnel in Michigan schools from 1979 through 1987. The first section covers instructional-ancillary personnel and student counts with specific information on personnel distributed by age, by assignment, by educational attainment, and by region; personnel and student ratios;…

This report reviews the situation public school districts encountered in recruiting teachers for the 1999-2000 school year. Data come from staffing surveys completed by administrators within 216 public school districts. Level of difficulty in finding teachers depended on type of teacher being sought. Elementary, social sciences, and language arts…

Describes the key features of a new and unconventional teacher preparation program intended to provide urban minority students with skills and incentive to be educators. Discusses how the success of the program will be evaluated. Describes the Urban Teacher Program in Michigan, a collaboration among two school districts and three colleges. (JS)

This Michigan edition of the National Council on Teacher Quality's (NCTQ's) 2009 "State Teacher Policy Yearbook" is the third annual look at state policies impacting the teaching profession. It is hoped that this report will help focus attention on areas where state policymakers can make changes that will have a positive impact on…

Almost 900 employers responded to this year's "Recruiting Trends" survey, the largest response in the history of this project. Hiring of college graduates is expected to increase by single digits minimally, or double digits if certain geographic sectors are excluded (between 6% and 14%). This growth follows a robust 20% increase in…

The purpose of the Neighborhood Education Center (NEC) Project, funded under Title III of the 1965 Elementary Secondary Education Act, is to significantly raise academic achievement in the areas of language arts and computational skills. The NEC encompasses four elementary schools in Region 8 of the Detroit Public Schools system. This region…

Results of a study of apprenticeship programs, which provide related educational instruction, sponsored by the Kalamazoo Public Schools are presented. The study contains four sections. The first section includes a description of the nature of apprenticeship training, the role and status of apprenticeship training in Kalamazoo, and an analysis of…