Are Core Subjects Becoming a Dumping Ground for Reassigned High School Teachers?.

Gehrke, Nathalie J.; Sheffield, Rosemary

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ERIC Number: EJ319820

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Publication Date: 1985

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Are Core Subjects Becoming a Dumping Ground for Reassigned High School Teachers?

Gehrke, Nathalie J.; Sheffield, Rosemary

Educational Leadership, v42 n8 p65-69 May 1985

A study of the reassignment of a shrinking metropolitan district's unterminated high school teachers during the late 1970s and early 1980s revealed that except in music and home economics, the number of classes taught by teachers who had majored in the relevant subject area declined, sometimes dramatically. (PGD)

Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Reduction in Force, Secondary Education, Secondary School Teachers, Teacher Education, Teacher Qualifications, Teaching Load

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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