This paper reports teacher survival rates in the St. Louis metropolitan area and updates a similar 1978 study by the authors. High dropout rates continue to exist in the beginning years of teaching for each entering cohort. Implications for teacher effectiveness, salaries, and future demand for new teachers are discussed. (Author/BS)

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)

Considered the problem of surplus teachers and how to utilize those teachers. (RK)

This report analyzes and documents trends of teacher supply and demand in Illinois, based on data collected by the Illinois Office of Education on the number of educational personnel being prepared and employed by educational institutions in the state. In large part, the report is an update on Illinois teacher supply and demand data previously…

To fully develop a teacher cost model, it is essential to be able to forecast the number of teachers that leave the experience category distribution -- not only the total number that leave, but also the number that leave from each category and experience level within the distribution. Similarly, it is essential to be able to forecast, to the same…

This booklet presents projections of supply and demand for elementary and secondary public and nonpublic school teachers for the United States for the years 1975-76 through 1980-81. Three alternative sets of projections are presented, based on assumptions of high, intermediate, and low rates of teacher turnover. Chapter 1 describes the objectives,…

The author, a lecturer in educational administration at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, explored the present precarious situation facing teacher education institutions from the viewpoint of an administrator. (Editor/RK)

Colleges of Education need to be viewed as more than a job training institution. Authors suggested the viability of a non-teaching major specialization in the undergraduate study of education. (Editor/RK)

Presents information obtained from a national survey of college and university placement officers conducted during September and October 1976. They found that placement opportunities in 1977 for secondary education graduates are similar to those of the past few years and that mobility and teaching combinations are the primary criteria for locating…

This report lists percentage distribution and annual median salaries (in constant 1998 dollars) of full-time elementary and secondary school teachers, by age for 1971-98. As a wave of younger teachers hired in the mid-1970s has aged, a demographic shift in the age of teachers has occurred. The percentage of full-time teachers 45 years or older has…

Article listed the hazards of working overseas and advised those applying on how to avoid such pitfalls. (RK)

The discipline of home economics faces a greater shortage of personnel today than it did five years ago. (Author)

Teaching positions for women vocational agriculture teachers are sparse. (GB)

Funded by the National Foundation for Educational Research, the project's aims were to investigate the perceptions which sixth-formers held of teaching and to monitor the progress of sixth-formers who decided to teach up to the time when they had completed their initial period as members of the profession. (Author/SSH)

Seven major studies of teacher supply and demand are reviewed, and their data collection, projection techniques, and findings are compared. Reports include: (1) teacher supply and demand in public schools; (2) new teachers in the job market; (3) statistical projections; (4) the changing labor market; and (5) current teacher supply. (JN)