Provides a brief review of teacher education reform, examines the force behind the current reform movement, and synthesizes the original recommendations of the various reform reports as they relate to teacher education. Discusses major criticisms of the reports. (Author/JOW)

Urban Teacher Residencies (UTRs) are an emerging innovation designed to embody best practices in recruitment, screening, preparation, placement, induction, and teacher leadership for urban school districts. UTRs can be a key element of urban districts' portfolio of pathways into teaching and a lynchpin of a larger strategy to strengthen the…

To improve the quality of the teacher workforce, some states have tightened teacher preparation and certification requirements while others have eased requirements and introduced "alternative" ways of being certified to attract more people to teaching. Donald Boyd, Daniel Goldhaber, Hamilton Lankford, and James Wyckoff evaluate these…

PROJECT 120 ASSISTS SPECIAL SERVICE SCHOOLS IN RECRUITING AND HOLDING TEACHERS, TRAINS TEACHERS TO WORK IN URBAN SCHOOLS FOR THE DISADVANTAGED, AND EXPLORES FACTORS THAT WILL IMPROVE TEACHER EDUCATION FOR URBAN SCHOOLS. THE SPECIAL PROGRAM IS ANNOUNCED TO UNDERGRADUATES WHO HAVE QUALIFIED FOR STUDENT TEACHING. IN ADDITION TO CONVENTIONAL…

To examine ways to increase recruitment of minority students into college deaf education training programs a questionnaire was randomly sent to programs for the hearing impaired employing more than 100 staff. Data from a variety of Black respondents (57 percent) resulted in suggestions for encouraging minority recruitment. (Author/CL)

Suggestions for recruiting teachers are as follow: talk to teens, recruit from within, involve counselors, target uncertain students, network, build relationships with tech prep, enlist military personnel, recruit extension agents, contact outplacement and employment services, and use distance-learning methods. (JOW)

U.S. society proposes that all students should have equal opportunities to achieve academically; therefore, urban and rural schools that serve socio-economically disadvantaged students must employ highly qualified teachers who are prepared to teach in those particular school environments. Recruitment practices, teacher preparation programs, and…

American educational leaders seek to educate children (regardless of race, class, or economic status) to become productive citizens. In order for our country to compete with other countries where students are well educated and highly motivated, we need to ensure that our educational system is equipped with the technology and tools that would allow…

The knowledge, skills, and practices of early childhood care providers and teachers are critical factors in their delivery of high-quality developmental and educational experiences to young children. However, studies have found that the majority of professionals that make up the current early childhood workforce are not adequately prepared. Recent…

Project TRREE is a three-year, federally funded project conducted by the Kentucky Department of Education. The purpose of the project is to develop a systemic approach to increase the number of highly qualified special education teachers with a focus on recruitment of linguistically, culturally and ethnically diverse educators. Taskforce members…

The booklet is intended to help recruit teachers and familiarize prospective teachers and related services personnel with opportunities for serving exceptional children in North Dakota. Teaching careers and professional preparation for students with five types of disabilities (specific learning disabilities; emotional disturbances; mental…

With all the rhetoric on education appearing in the form of reports, legislative proposals, opinion polls, and statements from the profession, the observation of Lortie (1975) that "teaching, from its inception in America, has occupied a special, but shadowed, social standing. Real regard shown for those who taught has never matched the professed…

Recent developments indicate that future urban teacher education models will have as one of their basic components a clinical experience program. This experience should constitute a direct involvement in the activities and way of life of a given group of people in an urban community. The legitimacy of urban sub-cultures must be recognized, and the…

The Mid-continent Regional Educational Laboratory's Cooperative Urban Teacher Education (CUTE) program, a cooperative field experience program for the recruitment and training of teachers for the inner city, is the focus for discussion of teacher education in this collection of speeches made at the Eighth National Clinic of the Association for…

The question of entrance requirements for teacher education program is discussed; in particular, the relationship of student quality to program quality is examined. Selection procedures, recruitment, curricula, faculty, students, resources and facilities, and program review and evaluation procedures are analyzed in detail. Also mentioned is the…