Most Texas foreign language teachers teach one or more additional fields. Spanish has the highest proportion of teachers assigned to a single field. Only 30 percent of French, German, and Latin teachers teach a single language. The author shows that there is considerable variety in teaching field combinations in a 1969-70 report. (SC)

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

Recruitment, retention, and tenure practices at public junior and community colleges throughout the United States are the subject of this study by the Department of Education, Indiana University. Out of 592 colleges contacted in November 1968, 507 responded; 426 of the responses to this 37-question survey were considered useable sources of data.…

On the assumption that blacks teaching the white middle-class majority students could help prevent further social polarization of majority and minority groups and could best interpret minority experience and potential to our youth, an informal survey by letter and interview was initiated to assess suburban recruitment of black teachers. Reasons…

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)

Reports results of a five-state survey of 331 small school superintendents from Arkansas, Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas which studied techniques and plans of action for teacher recruitment and teacher maintenance. (AH)

American universities are seeking to increase "academic staff diversity" by hiring more females, racial/ethnic minorities, military veterans, and persons with disabilities. Various researchers have presented evidence showing that people of poverty and working-class origins are significantly underrepresented within the US academic staff.…

This is a study done in 1973-74 through questionnaires sent to recent Ph.D.s in comparative literature and to potential employers. Questions were asked regarding the kinds of teaching positions held, if they were held, the type of institution, the permanency of the job, and the informants' subjective evaluation of the job. (SC)

This document, a companion report to a detailed investigation into school districts' teacher selection processes, presents detailed case studies conducted in six different school districts: (1) Mesa Unified School District (Arizona); (2) Montgomery County Public Schools (Maryland); (3) East Williston Union Free School District (New York); (4)…

Tenure fraction has become recognized as an important factor to be taken into account in the administration of institutions of higher education, but there is danger that pursuit of lower fractions per se may lead to actions that unnecessarily weaken the institution or its educational programs. With the aid of an extremely simple mathematical model…

With the opening of new community colleges comes the problem of recruiting and selecting new faculty members. The consequences of an administrator's initial selection of faculty can have lasting significance for a new institution, but there has been no single set of guidelines to help administrators set up procedures. This report reviews the…

This booklet, presenting information on careers in education and teaching, is addressed primarily to high school students and first- and second-year college students. A short history of teaching is presented along with a description of the essential nature of a teacher's work. Teaching situations and conditions are explained, with emphasis on the…

Opportunities abroad for teachers of English as a second language are presented. The role of the Canadian University Service Overseas (CUSO), a placement service, is discussed. Information on how to contact CUSO is also presented. (HP)

Student learning depends on quality instructors. An innovative, multi-tiered framework for selecting such instructors is presented in this book. The program is sufficiently flexible to use in both small and large school systems, but rigorous enough to ensure that only the best available candidates are ultimately chosen. By allocating…

This publication is designed to provide schools and school districts with help in addressing the challenge of recruiting and retaining excellent substitute teachers. It includes information on a variety of school district approaches to hiring, compensating, and supporting substitute teachers. Districts that provide training in classroom management…