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Direct linkBerry, Barnett; Shields, Patrick M. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2017
Two decades ago, at a time when much of the country faced looming teacher shortages, a number of states invested in comprehensive strategies for strengthening the teaching profession. For example, and drawing upon recommendations from the National Commission on Teaching & America's Future, both California and North Carolina built statewide…
Descriptors: Teacher Shortage, Teacher Supply and Demand, Teaching (Occupation), Teacher Recruitment
Download full textBerry, Barnett; Hare, R. Dwight – 1986
A series of case studies examined the problems of the teacher labor market (such as difficulty in recruiting high quality teachers) and explored avenues for supplying schools with effective teachers. The case studies were based primarily upon 525 interviews with (or surveys of) teachers, school and university administrators, teacher education…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Faculty Mobility, Labor Market, Teacher Attitudes
Berry, Barnett – 1985
A report is given of a series of qualitative studies conducted to clarify the market patterns of career choice and expectation, recruitment and selection, turnover and mobility, and working conditions and career alternatives of public school teachers. A study of the career expectations of noneducation college students was also made. These studies…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Faculty Mobility, Labor Market, Policy Formation
Peer reviewedBerry, Barnett – Urban Review, 1986
For the brightest students the most significant reasons why they won't teach relate to frustrating working conditions, bureaucratic requirements, the lack of professional control, and few opportunities for intellectual growth, as well as these students' intolerance for diversity in the workplace and their perception of teaching as a "boring…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Intellectual Freedom, Participative Decision Making, Professional Autonomy
Peer reviewedBerry, Barnett – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 1988
Educational reform movements--changes in state policies about teacher quality and recruitment and the professionalization of teaching--and their impact on the teacher labor market of the coming century are discussed. Four studies of teachers, teacher persistence, recruitment, and school district hiring practices are discussed. (JL)
Descriptors: Educational Change, Futures (of Society), Professional Recognition, Public Schools
Berry, Barnett – 1984
In an effort to explore significant supply and demand variables that affect the teacher labor market in the Southeast, a qualitative research study was undertaken to examine the market patterns of initial career choice, position availability, recruitment and selection, turnover, and mobility of public school teachers. An ethnographic investigation…
Descriptors: Educational Economics, Elementary Secondary Education, Labor Market, Schools of Education
