Paraprofessionals represent a growing segment of district employees seeking professional licensure. National preparation programs through the American Federation of Teachers, national testing programs, and state initiated portfolio programs offer a variety of options for meeting the stipulations set under No Child Left Behind (NCLB) legislation…

Project FUTURE is one component of a multifaceted approach in the Northwest Texas region to target Hispanic and African-American youth, encouraging them to go through school with a desire to complete education programs leading to professional credentialing in teaching. Project FUTURE inspires students to believe that they can attend Texas Tech…

The author evaluates several recruitment programs with a view toward bringing talented students into teaching. He recommends a Teacher Corps Fellowship program, which would include both service-payback and sponsored employment components. (MT)

The Multilingual/Multicultural Teacher Preparation Center (M/M Center), a teacher preparation program offered by the Bilingual/Multicultural Education Department (BMED) at California State University, Sacramento, is entering its third decade of operation. The M/M Center was established by a group of progressive teacher educators, most with a…

Recent trends in state action to recruit, recognize, reward, and renew teachers are described. Generally, testing has been but one part of a comprehensive state policy addressing teacher-related issues. (Author/MT)

The prevailing situation in which students of color represent over one-third of school enrollments, yet teachers of color represent merely one-tenth of the nation's teacher force, is an important yet rarely considered factor amidst the constant claims of teacher shortages. Urban and rural schools struggle with an inadequate supply of teachers, but…

This article is about bridge building: building cultural bridges of authentic collaboration between the university and the Navajo and Hopi nations; building curricular bridges between the White, European culture and the cultural worlds these nations seek to preserve; and building bridges between languages, the language of the…

Many institutions that prepare teachers profess a commitment to issues of diversity and educational equity in their mission and vision statements. However, despite the fact that the enrollment of students of color in institutions of higher education has increased by 48% over the last ten years, the racial/ethnic composition of teacher preparation…

Interviews with six minority women teachers on how to attract larger numbers of minority women to the professional of teaching indicated two areas in which teacher education programs must be more inclusive. These are discussed. (Author/MT)

Statements, goals, and recommendations of the Holmes Group are compared with resolutions and statements of belief of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. (MT)

Presented is a condensed version of the Executive Summary of "A Nation Prepared: Teachers for the 21st Century," the report of the Task Force on Teaching as a Profession of the Carnegie Forum on Education and the Economy. (MT)

Legislative strategies to help institutions of higher education recruit minority students and to encourage those students to become teachers are discussed. These strategies include work-study programs and mid-career programs, as well as preservice and inservice programs. (MT)

The pros and cons of using career ladders as incentives to attract and retain outstanding teachers are discussed, focusing on recent problems experienced in attempts to implement such models. (Author/CB)

Merit pay proponents argue that merit pay will: (1) attract higher caliber individuals to teaching; (2) retain good teachers; and (3) motivate teachers to improve instruction. These claims are investigated. Recommendations regarding effective alternatives to merit pay are discussed. (MT)

The Academy for Teacher Excellence (ATE) at the University of Texas at San Antonio and San Antonio College is proposed as a comprehensive model whose overarching goals include: (1) creating a learning ecology that values diversity and prepares teacher candidates for work in diverse communities; (2) increasing the number of Latino students pursuing…