Since 1990, the privately organized Teach For America has deployed more than 10,000 graduates to disadvantaged schools plagued by teacher shortages. The recruits take part in five-week summer institutes that include four weeks of student teaching. Because states have begun stepping up their requirements for Teach For America participants, most…

Administrators may be tempted to feel that the time and money spent on teacher recruitment can now be applied to other endeavors, since a teacher surplus is apparent throughout the country. This author believes that failure to recruit can be risky business. (Editor)

Report of a General Meeting at the Annual Conference of the National Association of Independent Schools, February 1969.

This document is an English-language abstract (approximately 1,500 words) of an inquiry into establishment of an Education Commission in New South Wales. The panel found that it would not be possible to devise an Education Commission acceptable to all parties supporting such a group; no one suggestion seemed an improvement on the present system.…

Provides eight screening practices to consider when hiring new teachers. Includes suggestions on how to conduct interviews. (MD)

This report critically analyzes research on teacher preparation, licensure, and recruitment, questioning the effectiveness of today's teacher education, showing how existing approaches to identifying qualified teachers are lax, and suggesting that district authorities do not always discriminate well between qualified and unqualified teacher…

Index shows that in greatest demand are teachers of elementary physical and health education; elementary music; trade, industrial, vocational and technical education; elementary art; librarians; foreign languages at the elementary level; and, distributive education. (DS)

Using a model to test whether choice-driven schools pay a higher wage differential and increase hiring for certain teacher characteristics, data from schools with traditional school choice and charter schools were analyzed. Choice affected the value schools placed on teachers' effort, independence, college education, and math and science skills.…

In summer 1999, a group of Park City, Utah, school administrators, personnel directors, human-resource specialists, and substitute teacher coordinators brainstormed on improving the recruitment, training, and retention of substitute teachers. Providing effective preservice and on-the-job training and professional recognition are key suggestions.…

Data from the 1993-94 Schools and Staffing Survey for 13,601 traditionally certified and 1,118 alternatively certified (AC) teachers show that 13.4% were math and science teachers, most of whom were AC; there were no differences in gender and racial composition; AC math and science teachers were concentrated in inner-city schools and had higher…

Through administrator and teacher surveys and interviews, this study examined recruiting and interviewing practices of eighty-three rural school districts located in, and between, the rural Ozark Plateau and Mississippi River Delta. Survey results indicated that districts with smaller student populations were far less likely to have an identified…

What is known about recruiting and retaining teachers for hard-to-staff-schools runs counter to many of the assumptions undergirding the teacher quality provisions of No Child Left Behind. Evidence regarding incentives, recruitment pathways, new teacher induction programs, and alternative routes shed considerable light on what needs to be done to…

This report summarizes and highlights what transpired during the four-part conference entitled "Improving Teaching." The purpose of the series was to bring together educational leaders to discuss questions relating to training, attracting, and retention of good teachers in Connecticut. The material is organized according to the…

THIS THIRD REPORT ON SCIENCE EDUCATION IN THE U.S. RAISES THREE ISSUES FOR THE JUNIOR COLLEGE--(1) IS IT A DISCRETE RESOURCE IN THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE EDUCATION, (2) DOES IT REQUIRE A UNIQUE SCIENCE CURRICULUM, AND (3) HOW SHOULD ITS SCIENCE INSTRUCTORS BE PREPARED. UNDER THE COUNCIL OF STATE GOVERNMENTS'"MODEL LAW" (1965), THE COMPREHENSIVE,…