The Jefferson County (Kentucky) Public Schools have a long-term plan for "inventing" schools that will offer excellent programs for students, induct new faculty members, and serve as "exemplars of practice." (Author/TE)

Describes Council of Europe meetings on teacher education. A 1987 meeting examined new challenges. In 1990, one seminar discussed selection and development of teacher trainers, and another examined training classroom teachers for working with varied abilities and backgrounds. The All-European Conference of Directors of Educational Research…

The Los Angeles Unified School District Intern Program uses alternative teacher certification for recruitment and training in large, urban, multicultural school districts. The article examines program effectiveness, candidate characteristics, the kind of professional education provided by alternative routes, and how alternatively educated teachers…

Describes policies and programs that can successfully recruit, prepare, retain, and support a diverse, well-qualified teaching force for all communities, discussing the importance of emphasizing: teacher salaries and supports, improved teacher recruitment and training, quality preservice preparation, streamlined selection and proactive…

Weary of fighting with other districts for the best teachers, Fairfax (Virginia) County Schools adopted a more cooperative approach. The district is pursuing professional-development school agreements with four area universities. Similar recruitment partnerships are under way in Cleveland, Ohio; Tolleson, Arizona; and Olathe, Kansas. (MLH)

Begins with an investigation of teacher availability for public schools in the United States. Examines the impact of an impending teacher shortage on Catholic schools. Describes some current programmatic initiatives that address resourcing needs in these institutions. Considers other ways in which the Catholic community can more creatively…

Contrasts a bilingual Austrian school, which has German-speaking and English-speaking students and German and English as equal languages of instruction, with an independent school in the United Kingdom where German is taught intensively to students of all age groups. Focuses on the status of foreign languages, teacher recruitment, teaching…

Nontraditional teacher candidates often must make Herculean efforts and financial sacrifices to prepare for new classroom careers. The Portland (Oregon) Teachers Program is addressing the shortage of minority teachers by recruiting minority students, many beginning second careers, and providing tuition wavers and mentoring support. Three other…

As universities and colleges have changed, so has the role of faculty. Greater accountability is expected for faculty time and effort. This paper considers faculty roles by the institution preparing new faculty, the institution hiring new faculty, and the new faculty member themselves. All institutions are seeking faculty who are triple threats:…

Teachers make the greatest impact on students--what they learn, how they learn it, and what they do with it. Decades of research clearly demonstrate that a quality teacher, more than any other factor, enables students to overcome obstacles to learning like poverty and can even erase the achievement gap. The problem is that many teachers lack the…

This report provides background information concerning recruitment of teachers in Maryland, especially minority teachers; identifies current initiatives; and presents new directions. Actions were taken by a task force established by the Maryland State Board of Education to recruit teachers in critical shortage areas and to promote teaching as a…

The purpose of "Teach for America," a program modeled after the Peace Corps, was to recruit a cadre of bright college graduates to become uncertified teachers for two years in some of America's toughest schools. This book tracks the successes and failures of the program in its first year and presents the stories of seven idealistic corps…

This brief report summarizes a longer report with the same title. It examines the problems of the increasingly severe shortage of qualified teachers in American higher education and the need to recruit large numbers of new faculty during the next decade and, as the potential solution to both problems, the recruiting of women to fill these faculty…

Descriptions are given of three programs at the University of Missouri-Columbia which were implemented to recruit talented minority students into a career of teaching. The first of these, the Brooks Scholarships, are basically "full-ride" scholarships which provide a $3,000 scholarship renewable for 4 years. Two-thirds of the funding is…

Teach for America is a national teacher corps of outstanding individuals who commit 2 years to teach in urban and rural areas experiencing persistent teacher shortages. Teach for America selects corps members through an intensive application process, prepares them to enter the classroom in a preservice institute, clusters them in placement sites,…