Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont and Education Commissioner Charlene Russell-Tucker announced the expansion of the northeastern reciprocity agreement to include certified educators throughout the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, and beyond. As of April 21, 2022, "educators in Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maine, Massachusetts, Maryland, New…

Policymakers know that improving teaching in our schools requires a systemic look at many policies related to educator effectiveness. For example, teacher preparation programs need to be dramatically improved and strengthened, but without accompanying reform in compensation, even highly effective and innovative schools of education are unlikely to…

In this article, we explain how overly prescriptive, rigid state statutory and regulatory policy frameworks regarding teacher evaluation, tenure and employment decisions outstrip the statistical reliability and validity of proposed measures of teaching effectiveness. We begin with a discussion of the emergence of highly prescriptive state…

There is broad agreement that teacher quality is related to student achievement, but there is far less agreement about the degree to which school districts and administrators are constrained in making policies to improve teacher quality that might also affect teacher employment and working conditions. Conventional wisdom holds that state law and…

The purpose of this study was to investigate teacher selection practices in public high schools on Long Island, New York. More specifically, this study sought to identify criteria used to guide teacher selection, how the criteria are developed and used within the process, and the role of the principal in teacher selection. This research was…

In the era of No Child Left Behind, principals are increasingly held accountable for student performance. But are teacher labor agreements giving them enough flexibility to manage effectively? This study answers this question and others. It examines how much flexibility school leaders enjoy on key dimensions of management in America's fifty…

The shortage of teachers has been discussed for years as a crucial problem. In 1969, the National Education Association estimated that the teacher shortage was 224,200 when a minimum quality criterion was considered. Despite this apparent shortage of "qualified" teachers, decreases in the number of births, and increases in the number of…

This report summarizes data collected by the Central Staff Office of Institutional Research of the State University of New York based on a questionnaire completed annually for the National Education Association. The institutions included in this study are all those that offer programs in education that enable students to be recommended for New…

The employment experience of participants in the Empire State Scholarship/Fellowship program are discussed. It was found that many individuals certified to teach science have encountered difficulty in obtaining employment and that the concern about the quantity of science teachers needed in the 1990s is perhaps unwarranted. (KR)

Much good work has recently been done on the socioeconomic history of teaching in the United States, particularly in relation to the "feminization" of the profession that occurred over the course of the nineteenth century. This article brings together evidence from disparate local sources in both North Carolina and New York to explore…

THE AVAILABILITY AND NATIONAL DISTRIBUTION DATA OF MODERN LANGUAGE TEACHING MANPOWER IN INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION FOR 1959-60 WERE COORDINATED, TABULATED, EVALUATED, AND REPORTED. CANVASSING WAS CONDUCTED OF 1,700 DEPARTMENT CHAIRMEN AT 1,170 COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES FOR (1) NAMES AND POSITIONS OF LANGUAGE TEACHERS, (2) LANGUAGES TAUGHT BY…

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 OBJECTIVES WERE TO DESCRIBE THE PATTERN OF JOB SEQUENCES THAT TYPIFY A CAREER IN EDUCATION AND TO DETERMINE THE TYPES OF PRESSURES, SATISFACTIONS, AND FRUSTRATIONS THAT LEAD TEACHERS TO CONTINUE IN EDUCATION OR SEEK OTHER POSITIONS. SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHERS EMPLOYED IN URBAN CENTERS OF CENTRAL NEW YORK WERE INTERVIEWED. THEY INCLUDED TEACHERS…

INFORMATION ON STATE CERTIFICATION OF TEACHERS IN CATHOLIC SCHOOLS, THE LARGEST SECTOR OF THE NONPUBLIC SCHOOLS, WAS PROVIDED BY A SURVEY OF (1) STATE POLICIES FOR CERTIFYING CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS, (2) THE EXTENT OF STATE CERTIFICATION IN CATHOLIC SCHOOLS AND REASONS FOR THESE SCHOOLS' CERTIFICATION STATUS, AND (3) OPINIONS OF DIOCESAN…

Current methods of funding teachers' retirement systems, which base pensions on final salaries, are inequitable because they are not related to school districts' ability to pay and because they require some teachers to subsidize others. A five-state survey shows it is common for pensions to be funded by school districts and teachers, sometimes…