Urges higher education leaders to become more involved in K-12 needs and identifies problems in recruiting, training, and credentialing elementary and secondary school teachers. Recommends seven actions including: (1) creating flexible, adaptive, high-quality teacher education programs; (2) integrating the school of education into the university…

Discusses teacher-quality issues related to current and projected teacher shortages, including out-of-field teaching, teacher certification, working conditions, and salaries. Asserts that nation is currently experiencing a crisis in teacher quality, with a disproportional impact on disadvantaged urban students. (PKP)

FOLLOWING AN EARLIER REPORT (SP 000 858), ANALYSIS OF LICENSING PRACTICES POINTS TO THE ANACHRONISM OF APPLYING PROCEDURES PERTINENT WHEN SUPPLY EXCEEDS DEMAND BUT NOT TO THE PRESENT "TEACHER MARKET." RECOMMENDATIONS ARE (1) ESTABLISH A COMMISSION TO MONITOR THE PERSONNEL SYSTEM AND A BUREAU STAFFED BY TECHNICAL SPECIALISTS TO DEVELOP…

This study examined whether National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) certification would impact school districts' educational processes, identifying areas in which NBPTS certification impacted such factors as: classroom teaching practices; professional development; employment procedures and opportunities; teachers' career paths;…

Twelve writers have contributed to this 30 page bulletin concerning contemporary problems of teacher education. (JS)

The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) sets standards for the teaching profession and certifies teachers who meet those standards. Currently there are NBPTS-developed standards for 27 fields, such as age range (e.g., early childhood, adolescence, young adulthood) and content area (e.g., English/language arts, middle…

A collaborative program between the Fort Worth Independent School District (Texas) and several regional private and public colleges to alleviate district teacher shortages is described in this paper. The Cooperative Teacher Aide-Scholar Program, which developed instructional aides into certified classroom teachers, provided participants with an…

This report was prepared to inform and advise the presidents of state colleges and universities of the scope of the current nationwide movement for teacher education reform, and offer recommendations for action. It also assesses briefly principal recommendations for change in teacher education with particular reference to the responsibilities,…

A community survey was undertaken to assess public opinion on five educational issues: (1) teacher recruitment, preparation and certification; (2) professional career ladders and master teacher roles; (3) school staff development; (4) merit salary increases; and (5) teacher image. Respondents (142) included businesses and residences with and…

TO GATHER DATA ON TEACHER PERCEPTIONS OF PERSONNEL PRACTICES, A SAMPLE OF 1,025 NEW YORK CITY TEACHERS WAS INTERVIEWED. TO STUDY CAREER PATTERNS, A "COHORT-STUDY" WAS MADE OF THE RECORDS OF 413 TEACHERS FIRST HIRED BY THE CITY IN 1950. EDUCATIONAL OFFICIALS IN NEW YORK, CHICAGO, DETROIT, AND PHILADELPHIA WERE INTERVIEWED. MAJOR FINDINGS…

This report presents actions states can take to help ensure that they have a highly qualified teacher in every career/technical classroom. In order to meet this goal, states may need to rethink their approach toward recruitment by developing a system to enroll interested and capable high school and college students in a career/technical teacher…

This paper is the third in a series of reports that examine the impact of No Child Left Behind, the newly revised Elementary and Secondary Education Act, on state policy and policymaking. It focuses on teaching quality. The first section explains that a highly qualified teacher is one who has been fully licensed or certified by the state and not…

This compendium describes nearly 100 national, regional, and state resources, including data sources, initiatives, Web sites, studies, and reports related to teacher mobility. It offers policymakers, researchers, and educators information and approaches to guide research and focus policy discussions on particular aspects of teacher mobility.…

Recent research demonstrates that teacher quality has a greater impact on student achievement than any other educational factor. Yet there is concern that overall teacher quality is variable, and hard-to-staff schools (i.e., high poverty and minority schools) have an even more difficult time recruiting and retaining quality teachers. The No Child…

This study was designed to obtain information on the national supply of special education teachers of low incidence disabilities including training program capacity, individual training program characteristics, and projections of numbers of program graduates. A pilot survey instrument was developed and completed by 233 low incidence area special…