ESTIMATES OF TEACHER SUPPLY AND DEMAND IN CALIFORNIA ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS LEAD TO THE EXPECTATION OF AN AVERAGE ANNUAL DEFICIT OF 6,510 TEACHERS DURING THE 1965-75 PERIOD. THE DEFICIT (31 PERCENT OF THE DEMAND) WILL HAVE TO BE MET BY OUT-OF-STATE RECRUITING AND BY HIRING THOSE WHO DO NOT QUALIFY FOR REGULAR CREDENTIALS. MAJOR…

The basic task of recruiting teachers for continuing education programs is to identify a pool of qualified potential teachers. The development of a recruitment plan, a programming philosophy, and a timetable for implementation are important to the success of the staffing process. (Author/SK)

Offers evidence for making teacher diversity a central component of teacher quality and examines elements of the teacher quality agenda that discount or limit diversity. Outlines what the National Education Association is doing to promote teacher diversity, providing recommendations for programs and policies to recruit a more qualified and diverse…

Studies have found substantial sorting of teachers across schools, with the schools with the highest proportions of poor, non-white, and low-scoring students having the least qualified teachers as measured by certification, exam performance, and inexperience (Lankford, Loeb and Wyckoff, 2002). Yet, there have been substantial changes in the…

Over the past four years, Pakistan's higher-education budget has increased more than sevenfold, to about $449-million. While that amounts to only 0.5 percent of Pakistan's gross domestic product, it is a big improvement from the days of barely enough to pay "measly salaries and basic bills." But for students, along with many of…

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…

The School District of Philadelphia (SDP), like many other urban school districts, struggles to increase its hiring and retention of experienced and highly qualified teachers in its low-performing/high-need schools. Excluding its charter schools, SDP serves approximately 165,000 students, largely from high-poverty (76%) and minority (85%)…

The No Child Left Behind Act of 2002 set forth to hold all schools accountable to high standards and address the long-standing objective of closing the achievement gap between students from high and low socioeconomic backgrounds. The guidelines and criteria that describe highly qualified teachers emphasize pedigrees and standardized test scores as…

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 No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) has increased concern about the staffing difficulties faced by schools that serve a high percentage of low-achieving students. NCLB requires each student be taught in all core academic subjects by a highly-qualified teacher by the 2005-06 school year. The law defines highly-qualified teachers as those…

Outlines some steps a district can take to find and select vocational education teachers from nontraditional sources. The people selected will be noncertified but experienced in their trades. (Author/IRT)

In the establishment and development of a two-year agribusiness program in Watertown, South Dakota, the problems of hiring appropriate and qualified staff are traced from the beginning through the developmental stages of the school. (EA)

TASS, a system developed for industrial recruiting, is showing schools how to locate the exceptional teacher and save time and money in the hiring process. (Author)

Discusses educational qualifications of the technical teacher and identifies emerging trends in education and the agricultural complex. Implications are derived for selection and recruitment of teachers as well as preservice and inservice education. (SB)

This paper, one in a series of four describing a boy-oriented program for elementary school children, addresses the problem of staffing an elementary school with teachers who will be able to effectively teach boys as well as girls. It suggests that empathy toward both boys and girls, personal warmth and security in the classroom, a high degree of…