Research suggests teachers' observable characteristics are inequitably distributed across schools, leaving minoritized students with less exposure to experienced and credentialed teachers. While prior research focuses on how the teacher sorting explains disparities in students' test scores, little research explores how teacher quality gaps might…

Research over the past decade suggests teachers have low instructional self-efficacy/confidence and more concerns about implementing inclusive teaching practices. This quantitative correlational study explored whether reported concerns and demographic variables (gender, age, education, and years of teaching experience) predicts teachers'…

Persistent and consistent criticism of our nation's educational system has increased pressure on school districts and teacher education programs to improve the quality of teachers in our public schools. While there is research regarding the characteristics of effective teachers, the difficulty is often in identifying and hiring those teacher…

An instrument of 55 items, "Teachers' Perceptions of Teaching and Educational Reform," was developed using factors and reform proposals emphasized in current literature. Using a stratified random sampling technique, 64 schools from the southeastern section of Georgia were selected for participation. Surveys were returned by 56 (87.5%) of…

Identifies the content areas and academic variables that are significant predictors of success on the social studies component of the Georgia Teacher Certification Test. Finds that concentrated study in behavioral sciences is not advantageous while interdisciplinary approaches in geography, political science, and history better prepare prospective…

THE OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY WERE TO INVESTIGATE THE UTILIZATION OF SPECIAL TEACHERS, THEIR QUALIFICATIONS AND EFFECTIVENESS, THEIR PROFESSIONAL TIME DISTRIBUTION, AND THE INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAM. GEORGIA HAS HAD SPECIAL TEACHERS FOR YOUNG AND ADULT FARMER CLASSES SINCE 1951 WHEN A TEACHER-ALLOTMENT SYSTEM MADE THESE CLASSES DIFFICULT TO OFFER WITH…

There are many compelling reasons for introducing foreign language study at the middle school level. Adolescents are initiating new and higher levels of cognitive processing, their curiosity is high, and they are concerned with intellectual, philosophical, biological, sociological, moral, and ethical issues. A survey of 82 middle school foreign…

Examined were the educational conditions and efficiency of the school systems during the 1929-30 school year in both the mountainous and nonmountainous counties of Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia. Information was obtained for five counties in each State which were regarded as the most mountainous and five…