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Recruiting Expert Teachers into Hard-to-Staff Schools
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Amrein-Beardsley, Audrey – Phi Delta Kappan, 2007
America's most highly qualified teachers are underrepresented in America's most challenging schools. Across the nation, only about 15% of America's expert teachers teach in high-poverty, underachieving schools. Most expert teachers teach in schools with fewer racial minority students, fewer students from low-income households, and fewer students…
Descriptors: Minority Groups, Teacher Effectiveness, Beginning Teachers, Teacher Recruitment
Recruiting Expert Teachers into Hard-to-Staff Schools
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Amrein-Beardsley, Audrey – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2007
Rather than continued reliance of high-stakes tests to increase student achievement, a practice for which the author feels there is little supporting evidence, the author urges for educators and educational leaders to work co-operatively to enact insightful, data-driven policies to improve student achievement. In this article, the author argues…
Descriptors: Teacher Recruitment, Teacher Qualifications, Disadvantaged Schools, Minority Groups
From Minority to Majority: Education and the Future of the Southwest. A Report and Recommendations by the WICHE Regional Policy Committee on Minorities in Higher Education.
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Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, Boulder, CO. – 1987
Recommendations presented to the states of Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas represent both an assessment of the demographic and educational challenges faced by these states, in which minority populations will become the majority in the foreseeable future, and a call for action to deal with these challenges. The report is the…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Access to Education, Blue Ribbon Commissions, Diversity (Student)
Minority Student Progress Report, 1991.
Diaz, Porfirio R.; Luan, Jing – 1992
This report offers a consolidated systemwide analysis of key issues and recommendations for improvement of minority recruitment and retention at Arizona State Universities and an evaluation of progress toward achieving Arizona Board of Regents (ABOR) approved recruitment and graduation goals. A description of ABOR system goals notes three goals:…
Descriptors: American Indians, Bachelors Degrees, Black Students, Dropout Prevention
Corporations & Schools: An Integrated Partnership.
Post, William J. – 1997
This paper addresses the issue of what business leaders can do to help schools prepare the workforce of tomorrow. As the pace of change in American businesses quickens and their communities broaden, the need to recruit both a highly skilled and diverse workforce increases. Businesses should take more responsibility for setting employment…
Descriptors: Business Responsibility, Corporate Support, Education Work Relationship, Educational Change
Our Common Commitment. Enhancing Ethnic Minority Integration and Achievement in Arizona's Universities.
Arizona Board of Regents, Phoenix. – 1989
A report and recommendations of the Arizona Board of Regents' Ad Hoc Committee on University Access and Retention focuses on the enhancement of ethnic minority integration and achievement in Arizona's universities. Eight sections cover: introduction (the challenge for Arizona's universities); House Bill 2108; early outreach (linkages and…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Access to Education, Accountability, College Admission
Barriers to Minority Access and Persistence in Arizona's Universities: Perceptions of Students, Faculty, Staff and Administrators.
Wood, John J. – 1988
One of the working papers in the final report of the Arizona Board of Regents' Task Force on Excellence, Efficiency and Competitiveness, this study considers issues of minority access and persistence in Arizona's universities. Themes abstracted from personal interviews with minority students, faculty, and staff and minority and nonminority…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Access to Education, College Administration, College Faculty
Minority Education in Arizona's Universities.
Wood, John J. – 1988
One of the working papers in the final report of the Arizona Board of Regents' Task Force on Excellence, Efficiency and Competitiveness, this report describes a study evaluating the effort by Arizona's universities to recruit and graduate minority students. Current outcomes and recent trends are noted along with the general strengths and…
Descriptors: Access to Education, American Indians, Asian Americans, Blacks
Minority Access and Persistence Study: A Working Bibliography with Annotations.
Cowart, Vinette; And Others – 1988
One of the working papers in the final report of the Arizona Board of Regents' Task Force on Excellence, Efficiency and Competitiveness, this contribution offers an annotated bibliography on minority access and persistence. It cites the following: nine books (e.g., "Student Outcome Questionnaires: An Implementation Handbook" by P. Ewell…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Access to Education, American Indians, Annotated Bibliographies