School districts throughout the country have faced increasing challenges with recruiting and retaining beginning STEM teachers. In 2017, turnover rates for mathematics and science teachers were 90% greater in the top quartile of schools serving students of color than in the bottom quartile. A RAND Corporation 2021 survey found nearly one in four…

There is ample opportunity for state boards to improve outcomes for children by strengthening the early care and education workforce and thereby improving the quality of early care and education. Ensuring that ECE professionals have the knowledge, supports, and resources they need to support children's learning is one avenue to improving the…

A critical issue in educator preparation is how to ascertain if program graduates are sufficiently prepared to be effective through the acquisition of meaningful evidence of graduates' impact on their students. Challenges to proving specific impact of educator-preparation programs on student learning include identifying and following program…

Although arts partnerships in schools have existed since the 1960s (National Endowment for the Arts), they are becoming more prevalent and may encourage the emergence of a different kind of music teacher. These new music teachers are often musicians termed teaching artists (Association of Teaching Artists). Although teaching artists are more…

Why did the New York City school district once have the lowest ratio of minority teachers to minority students of any large urban school system in the country? Using an array of historical sources, this provocative book explores the barriers that African American and Latino candidates faced in attempting to become public school teachers in New…

The recently mandated change in teacher certification procedures in the state of New York offers the New York State Council for the Social Studies a unique opportunity to exercise a significant role in the preparation of social studies teachers. An overview of the teacher certification changes is provided. (Author/RM)

This study was prompted by the change in New York State certification (effective October 1968) which requires only 18 hours of courses in college mathematics for permanent certification in secondary school mathematics. The study does not suggest any recommendations as to the desired preparation for teaching secondary school mathematics, but…

In this chapter, the authors examine developments in the teacher workforce and in the occupation of teaching across recent generations. They take their point of departure from the perspective of prevailing policy discourse on enduring problems of educational equity, asking not only how teaching has evolved in recent decades but more specifically…

The results of a survey of the chairmen of physics departments in the publicly supported two-year colleges in New York are presented. Included questions on the acceptability of the Doctor of Arts degree, degrees held by current staff members, and course work background desired in new staff members. (Author/TS)

A key component of a quality early care and education system for young children is the early childhood workforce--teachers and others who work directly with children, as well as directors and administrators. This paper explores a number of issues central to early childhood teacher education in New York State. The paper first describes the…

The purpose of this study was to investigate and derive answers to specific questions regarding the needed preparation and the needed attributes of science faculty for teaching biology, chemistry, physics and earth science in community colleges. The study was limited to the public community colleges of New York State. Data, gathered by means of a…

Used data on New York state teachers to determine how much variation in the average attributes of teachers exists across schools, identify schools with the least qualified teachers, assess changes in the distribution over time, and determine how the distribution of teachers is affected by attrition, transfer, and the matches between teachers and…

THE PROBLEM OF EDUCATING SLUM CHILDREN IS SPECIAL AND SHOULD NOT BE BUTTRESSED WITH DEMOCRATIC SLOGANS. AN EXAMPLE OF THE LATTER IS GIVING SLUM CHILDREN AN OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE TEACHERS WHO ARE KNOWN TO BE GOOD IN OTHER SCHOOLS. TRANSFERRED TO THE SLUM SCHOOL, THEY BECOME DEMORALIZED AND FAIL. THEIR INSUFFICIENT SOCIAL AWARENESS AND THEIR LACK OF…

The purpose of this study was to ascertain the effect of a 1972 change in New York certification requirements for vocational education teachers which made it possible for individuals with minimal work experience to become certified to teach vocational subjects. To determine the effect of these changes on local schools, this study attempted to…

Relationships between salary levels and community and teacher characteristics were analyzed for public school districts in New York State in order to determine the causes of variation in salary levels paid and to examine the consequences of those variations. A strong relationship was found between socioeconomic status and salaries paid, especially…