This report presents data which were collected and summarized for the purpose of facilitating the Georgia Educational Models Feasibility Study. Included are (1) a summary of the number of bachelor degree graduates recommended for certification for elementary school teaching in Georgia and from the University of Georgia from 1961-68 and a projection for 1969-74; (2) a summary of the enrollment figures (and breakdown by class) for the University of Georgia College of Education for students...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Teacher Supply and Demand, Ayers, Jerry B.
An analysis of the job market for teachers indicates that the average candidate's ability to find a job will be influenced by his geographic preference and his subject area specialization. Geographically, the greatest opportunity is in areas of high population concentration. Certain subjects, such as science and mathematics, have a high demand for teachers, but in other subjects, prospective teachers should improve their chances by broadening their competencies and obtaining certification in...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Teacher Background, Teacher Certification, Teacher Supply and Demand
SUPPLY AND DEMAND DATA ON SECONDARY SCHOOL HOME ECONOMICS TEACHERS IN NEW YORK STATE WERE FURNISHED BY QUESTIONNAIRE RESPONSES FROM 82 PERCENT OF 783 SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS. FIVE HUNDRED REPLACEMENT TEACHERS AND 497 NEW TEACHERS WILL BE NEEDED DURING THE PERIOD 1964-68. CERTIFICATION STATUS AND EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND INFORMATION WAS FURNISHED BY QUESTIONNAIRE RESPONSES FROM 80 PERCENT OF 1,964 HOME ECONOMICS TEACHERS. ONE-HALF HELD PERMANENT CERTIFICATES, ONE-THIRD HELD PROVISIONAL CERTIFICATES,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Home Economics Education, Teacher Education, Teacher Supply and Demand
The digest examines the supply and the quality of special education personnel and notes problems in the area of personnel preparation. Statistics are cited to show that the current supply of qualified personnel does not meet demand, particularly in such important areas as special education. Similarly, efforts in recent years to strengthen the quality of teacher preparation programs in colleges and universitites are noted. The "quandry" facing special education because of the limited...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Disabilities, Special Education, Teacher Education, Teacher Morale, Teacher Supply...
A review of available research emphasizes a need for a more reliable, systematic collection and interpretation of data on science teacher production. The currently reported "crisis" in science education is not a new phenomenon nor a surprise to educators in the field, as it was predicted as early as 1976 by researchers noting a decline in newly certified mathematics and science teachers and an enrollment drop in teaching programs. Generalizations have been made from research results...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Elementary Secondary Education, Science Teachers, Teacher Shortage, Teacher Supply...
This report documents the nature of teacher shortages in Connecticut for the 1987-88 school year from multiple perspectives. A general overview is provided through a statewide analysis based on totals summed across all positions. Analyses of individual positions and position categories with reference to the number of school districts with vacancies provide more detailed information on the possible existence of teacher shortages. The most precise estimate of teacher shortages in the report is...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Elementary Secondary Education, Employment Patterns, Teacher Employment, Teacher...
The recent sudden reduction in the birthrate, following an earlier reduction in 1964-65, makes it clear that school enrollment will shrink steadily for the next 15 years. Demand for teachers in the state of Connecticut will decrease from about 2,300 per year to about 1,300 per year by 1980 and will continue to shrink the next 4 years to about 1,200 in 1984. Connecticut presently produces about 5,000 to 6,000 new teachers each year, and many who qualified in previous years are competing for the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Enrollment, Teacher Education, Teacher Employment, Teacher Supply and Demand, Hyde,...
This document is the first of four reports on the state of education professions published by the Commissioner of Education. This report discusses the issue of supply of and demand for education personnel in public elementary and secondary schools and in colleges and universities. The first chapter analyzes the alleged "Ph.D. glut" in postsecondary educational institutions. Chapter 2 is a case study of the qualitative need for teachers in 10 school districts of differing sizes and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Needs, Higher Education, Professional Personnel, Public Schools, Teacher...
The shortage of fully certified special education teachers, which has been described as severe, chronic, and pervasive, threatens the quality of educational services that students with disabilities receive. Over the last decade, researchers have investigated the magnitude of the special education teacher shortage problem and factors that contribute to the imbalance between supply and demand. This special issue includes research syntheses that critically evaluate the complex range of factors...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Teacher Supply and Demand, Special Education Teachers, Billingsley, B. S.|McLeskey, J.
This is one of a series of studies on the training, recruitment, and utilization of teachers in member countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. This document deals with France and Ireland. The section on France (447 pages) is in French with no translation. The chapters deal with the evolution of factors affecting the supply and demand for teachers, the problems of the optimum distribution of graduates between the educational sector and other sectors, the training...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Career Opportunities, Educational Improvement, Teacher Education, Teacher...
The California Postsecondary Education Commission convened a roundtable to begin discussing issues related to the changing role of higher education in preparing California's teachers. This report summarizes presentations by the three keynote speakers at the roundtable and provides highlights of the policy discussions among the participants. The first paper, "National Perspective on Teacher Preparation Issues," (by Eric Hirsch) explains that much of the pressure California is feeling...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Policy, Higher Education, Public Policy, Teacher Education, Teacher...
This white paper summarizes the scope of the problem of faculty shortages in nursing education and discusses issues contributing to the shortage of faculty. It also outlines strategies for expanding the capacity of the current and future pool of nursing faculty. The United States is in the midst of an unprecedented shortage of registered nurses, and this shortage is expected to persist. Intensifying the overall nursing shortage is the increasing deficit of full-time master's and doctorally...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Faculty, Nurses, Nursing Education, Nursing Students, Teacher Recruitment,...
ESTIMATES OF TEACHER SUPPLY AND DEMAND IN CALIFORNIA ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS LEAD TO THE EXPECTATION OF AN AVERAGE ANNUAL DEFICIT OF 6,510 TEACHERS DURING THE 1965-75 PERIOD. THE DEFICIT (31 PERCENT OF THE DEMAND) WILL HAVE TO BE MET BY OUT-OF-STATE RECRUITING AND BY HIRING THOSE WHO DO NOT QUALIFY FOR REGULAR CREDENTIALS. MAJOR REDUCTIONS IN PROVISIONALLY CERTIFICATED PERSONS AND IN PUPIL-TEACHER RATIOS ARE UNLIKELY IN THE NEAR FUTURE. AT THE JUNIOR COLLEGE LEVEL, THE SUPPLY OF...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Teacher Qualifications, Teacher Recruitment, Teacher Shortage, Teacher Supply and...
This twenty-third annual NEA survey of public school teacher supply and demand estimates that the supply of qualified teachers is adequate. To supplement these estimates, special surveys were made in State departments of education and in the nation's 67 largest school systems to assess teacher supply and demand in various types of school systems. By late summer 1970, most States had reported shortages of applicants in some areas and excesses in others. Shortages occurred in elementary school...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Beginning Teachers, Curriculum, Surveys, Tables (Data), Teacher Education, Teacher...
This book analyses ways of improving the status of teaching as a profession. The first chapter states a set of characteristics of professions and semi-professions. Chapter two assesses the extent to which teaching presently meets the criteria of a profession and looks at societal factors, conditions in schools, and the nature of teaching. The third chapter examines the various elements involved in the governance of teacher education and explores collaborative relationships among participating...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Professional Development, Professional Recognition, Teacher Certification, Teacher...
This document forms part of a research project initiated by the Ministry of Education in Quebec and designed to forecast teacher demand over the next 15 years. It analyzes the problem of identifying potential teacher dropouts by means of a statistical model which provides simulations of various hypotheses and which can be easily revised by the incorporation of new data. The observation period covered the four academic years 1967/68, 1968/69, and 1970/71. Chapter one provides the framework on...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Dropout Characteristics, Educational Research, Faculty Mobility, Teacher Persistence,...
Recruiting and retaining good teachers has recently reemerged as an important policy concern on the national agenda, as shortages of qualified teachers have appeared in a number of regions around the country. This four-section report addresses the recruitment and retention of teachers. The first section considers the shortage of high quality teachers, proposed explanations, and how teacher personnel policies are a strategic area for addressing the problmem. The second section describes the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Personnel Policy, Secondary Education, Teacher Persistence, Teacher Recruitment,...
This report forecasts a slight increase in the number of public school teachers in 1988. The number of public secondary school teachers is projected to decrease in 1989; however, an increase is again expected beginning in fall 1990. The number of public elementary school teachers will grow throughout the period, 1988 to 1992, reflecting the rising number of elementary school pupils. A table showing figures for 1986 and 1987 and forecasts for 1988-1992 is included. A chart comparing the number...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Elementary Secondary Education, Employment Projections, Enrollment Projections,...
This survey investigated problems of teacher supply and demand and collected information from local school districts to be used as base-line data on the current employment of teachers. Iowa's 452 school districts comprised the total sample for the empirical data given. The model survey was designed so that it could be replicated in subsequent years for comparison and trend analysis, and so that the approach might be implemented in other states. Experience gained from this survey will be used to...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Data Analysis, Employment Opportunities, Surveys, Teacher Employment, Teacher Supply...
This report considers the question of what becomes of college graduates who are newly qualified to teach and who face a teacher surplus. National statistics provide data on the following questions: What is the state of the market for new teachers? How do graduates newly qualified to teach fare in the labor market compared to other graduates? What kinds of jobs do graduates newly qualified to teach get when they aren't teaching? and, What is the outlook for teaching jobs over the next several...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Beginning Teachers, College Graduates, Employment Patterns, Teacher Education,...
This issue of The Progress of Education Reform summarizes recent research on the issue of teacher supply and demand, including: (1) An analysis of urban district hiring practices, and their effect on applicant attrition and teacher quality; (2) An examination of the role of teacher turnover in school staffing problems, and the extent to which school characteristics and organizational conditions contribute to teacher turnover; and (3) A report calling for increased federal leadership and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Teacher Supply and Demand, Faculty Mobility, Urban Education, Teacher Selection,...
The following topics are covered in this report: 1) supply of graduates completing preparation to enter teaching, 2) supply of beginning teachers, 3) supply of qualified former teachers, 4) demand for new teachers, 5) demand for minimum quality, 6) demand for beginning and re-entering teachers, 7) teacher supply compared to demand, and 8) future trends. (JD)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Beginning Teachers, Labor Market, Public Schools, Teacher Employment, Teacher Supply...
This position paper discusses the question of teacher shortage or surplus and related issues. Informal surveys were conducted by the Recruitment Leadership and Training Institute (LTI) and other major educational organizations to provide a factual basis for the study. A review of the surveys conducted by LTI and a summary of published reports are presented. A chart depicting supply and demand for beginning teachers in public schools from 1952 to 1971 and projected to 1980 is included. Following...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Needs, Occupational Surveys, Teacher Employment, Teacher Selection,...
This School Board Policy kit, one of a series, covers the subject of Policies that Support Effective Teacher Recruitment. It requests all district boards to "incorporate into written policy form their refusal to consider race, religion, sex, or national origin as a basis for employment," and stresses the importance of teacher recruitment as a year-round activity. Board deliberations on the topic of recruitment must inevitably call for a review of policies on hiring, orientation, and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrative Policy, Board of Education Policy, Personnel Policy, Superintendents,...
The first half of this document examines the national supply and demand of teachers, while the second half is concerned with the situation in Wisconsin. The change from the teacher shortage of the 1960's to the surplus of the 1970's is traced and explained, and the continued shortage in certain fields, such as industrial arts, special education, mathematics, trade and vocational, natural and physical science, women's physical education, remedial reading, speech correction, library science, and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Student Teacher Ratio, Teacher Education, Teacher Employment, Teacher Recruitment,...
This selected bibliography lists 93 publications that contain information on: (1) personnel supply/demand in special education, general education, related services, and higher education; (2) trends in education, enrollments, populations, and related topics; (3) demographic data that may influence personnel supply/demand in special education; and (4) models or procedures for measuring and projecting supply/demand. A note indicates that the publications do not deal primarily with such teacher...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Demography, Disabilities, Educational Trends, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher...
This fact sheet focuses on the five-year projections for teachers of English learners (ELs) reported by states. States may have different definitions of EL instructors and different ways of calculating the five-year projections. It provides the following data for teacher projections for ELs in the 2017-18 school year: (1) Number of States That Met or Exceeded Projected Need for English Learner Instructors: School Year 2017-18; (2) Top Five States That Most Exceeded Their Projections for English...
Topics: ERIC Archive, ERIC, Language Teachers, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction,...
This study by the Rand Corporation is part of a series analyzing the educational personnel system. This report focuses on the principal educational manpower policy problem--the teacher surplus. Specifically, a number of alternative projections are developed for the market for teachers, showing policy issues that will arise if the current imbalances in the market continue are discussed, and information that educational personnel policy-makers will need in order to deal with these issues are...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Planning, Educational Policy, Labor Market, Teacher Employment, Teacher...
Factors that influence the design of state teacher policies and the impact of these policies on issues of coordination, equity, and teacher supply are examined. The structure and operation of policies in effect in four states--California, Colorado, Georgia, and Oklahoma--are described, and the factors that influence the design of these state policies are analyzed. While all four states each use some type of individual assessment as well as an approved program approach to screen teachers, the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Policy Formation, State Standards, Teacher Certification, Teacher Employment, Teacher...
Fluctuations in interest and enrollment in the study of Latin in the United States have led many to believe that the language was in permanent decline. However, in the last decade the public has become more aware of the need for language instruction, and high school Latin enrollments have risen dramatically since 1976. There is a shortage of teachers. In general, growth in college Latin enrollments has not paralleled that in high schools, and teachers are not being trained to meet the demand....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Enrollment Trends, High Schools, Higher Education, Language Proficiency, Latin,...
An update of a previous study produced information on the status of special education professional personnel in Michigan. Computer tape copies of the state's Professional Personnel Register and Certification Master File were analyzed. Detailed data are reported for eight basic tasks, including employment of beginning professional personnel in special education assignments in 1980 (a 4% increase over 1979-80, but less than the 7% or 8% growth rate of the preceding 2 years); new employment of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrators, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Employment Patterns,...
The dynamics of the teacher labor market were examined, focusing upon the problems of which teachers leave the profession, why they leave, where they go, and what it would take to retain them as public school teachers. In-depth case studies were made of six universities and six school districts. Data were collected by interviews (n=180) with deans, professors, placement officers, education students, administrators, principals, and teachers in the school systems. The study highlighted the fact...
Topics: ERIC Archive, School Demography, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Employment, Teacher Persistence,...
This report summarizes data gathered by the National Center for Education Statistics on the number of special education degrees conferred from 1980-81 to 1985-86. This time period showed an uninterrupted decline in the combined number of bachelor's and master's degrees conferred. Most dramatic losses occurred in the areas of physical handicaps, mental retardation, and special learning disabilities. An increase in the number of graduates was reported in education of the gifted. The number of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Graduates, Degrees (Academic), Disabilities, Gifted, Higher Education, Labor...
It is pointed out in this Digest that there is an imbalance between the number of Black, Hispanic, Asian and Native American teachers and the percentage of children of similar ethnic backgrounds in the schools. The growing minority student enrollment in public schools has increased the demand for proportional minority teacher representation. Factors contributing to shortages of minority teachers are discussed. References in the ERIC database are cited. (JD)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Elementary Secondary Education, Minority Group Teachers, Role Models, Teacher...
This report of teacher supply and demand in Florida looks at measures of teacher shortages during the 1984-85 school year, compares the projected supply of teachers by subject field with the numbers needed during 1986-87, and then projects the demand for teachers through the end of the century. As seen in prior years, some fields showed a much higher percentage of positions not filled by certified personnel than others. Mathematics, science, foreign languages, and education for the emotionally...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Demography, Elementary Secondary Education, Enrollment Trends, State Surveys, Teacher...
Data about teachers and about the content and methods of teaching are most critical to understanding the conditions of education. Spotty evidence about two recent trends have produced a waft of legislation concerning teacher education, certification, and compensation across the United States. The first consists of data suggesting that the academic ability of those choosing to teach may be declining; the second suggests that the number of prospective teachers will soon be insufficient to meet...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Data Collection, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Research Needs,...
This digest focuses upon what is known about current and impending needs for teachers, data on which this knowledge is based, and what needs to be done to create a solid foundation for projections on future needs. It is pointed out that the data needed to describe the market for teachers vary according to how and by whom the information is used. A description is given of seven users of information on the supply and demand of teachers. Four national agencies that provide the basic information...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Employment Patterns, Enrollment Projections, Information Needs, Teacher...
Responses from 36 state technology education supervisors showed that all have unfilled positions; 94% said university programs were unable to meet the demand for technology teachers; 95% have or are considering alternative certification 71% felt alternatively certified teachers were adequately prepared; and only 48% felt alternative certification was meeting the need for teachers. (Contains 22 references.) (SK)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Alternative Teacher Certification, Higher Education, Teacher Education Programs,...
This summary examines the shortage of science and mathematics teachers in the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) states and describes initiatives underway. Fewer persons have been graduating from college prepared to teach and large numbers of science and mathematics teachers are leaving the classroom. At the same time, requirements and enrollments in science and mathematics are increasing. The status in six states is analyzed: Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, South Carolina, and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Research, Mathematics Teachers, Science Teachers, Secondary Education,...
In an interpretive studies project conducted for the Office of Education, Dr. Dale L. Bolton of the University of Washington, Seattle, surveyed the findings of research and the hiring and placement practices of business and industry, governmental agencies, and large school systems. In his final report he examines such problems as how to approach and carry out the tasks of recruiting, selecting, and evaluating teachers in a school district; how to determine the number of teachers to be hired;...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Data Collection, Decision Making, Educational Methods, Personnel Selection, Public...
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, scope, and approach of the study and briefly summarizes its findings; chapter 2 discusses the projection model that was used; and chapter 3 presents...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Trends, Elementary Secondary Education, Employment Projections, Models,...
This Policy Research Brief summarizes findings from several studies of the Illinois teacher supply pipeline. It describes current teacher shortages, and identifies opportunities to plug leaks in the teacher supply pipeline. (Contains 7 endnotes.)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Teacher Shortage, Teacher Supply and Demand, Teacher Recruitment, Faculty Mobility,...
This policy brief presents a strong case for the creation of a statewide teacher data system in California by highlighting some of the simple teacher workforce questions that cannot be answered because such a system does not currently exist. At the state level, data on teacher qualifications are needed to fulfill the new reporting requirements of the federal No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) and the recent Williams lawsuit settlement. At the county and district levels, local officials need...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Federal Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education, Court Litigation, Credentials,...
The shortage of teachers has been discussed for years as a crucial problem. In 1969, the National Education Association estimated that the teacher shortage was 224,200 when a minimum quality criterion was considered. Despite this apparent shortage of "qualified" teachers, decreases in the number of births, and increases in the number of college graduate education majors reveal a trend towards a surplus of available teachers. Although presently the oversupply of teachers is in selected...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Employment Patterns, Surveys, Teacher Employment, Teacher Supply and Demand, Trend...
Identifying major trends related to the supply and demand for teachers in Michigan provides the purpose for this study. The data was gathered primarily from the Professional Personnel Register compiled annually by the Teacher Education and Professional Service Division of the Michigan Department of Education. The data provides empirical evidence of the attrition of teaching personnel who have graduated from various institutions. It also provides a basis for estimating the extent to which...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Demography, Employment Patterns, Employment Projections, Public School Teachers,...
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 increased from about 26 percent in 1975 to 43 percent in 1993. The annual median salaries of full-time teachers decreased between 1971 and 1981 by...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Elementary Secondary Education, Government Publications, Public Schools, Teacher...
A decline in the college-going rate for high school graduates, and the shrinking public school population with its resultant decline in the demand for new teachers, have both contributed to drops in enrollment which many schools of education are experiencing. There are ways, however, by which schools of education can avoid disastrous results. These include the following: (a) eliminate nonproductive programs and courses, (b) retrain faculty in areas of declining interest for employment in growth...
Topics: ERIC Archive, ERIC, Riggs, Bob Education Majors, Enrollment, Enrollment Rate, Schools of Education,...
This is the third annual report of teacher supply and demand in Florida. It looks at measures of teacher shortages during the 1983-84 school year, compares the projected supply of teachers by subject field with the numbers needed during 1985-86, and then projects the demand for teachers through the end of the century. Teacher vacancies in Florida during fall 1983 varied across subject fields, with some fields showing a much higher percentage of positions not filled by certified personnel than...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Elementary Secondary Education, Enrollment Trends, Population Trends, State Surveys,...
The General Accounting Office (GAO) reviewed supply and demand conditions for elementary and secondary school teachers as well as federal assistance programs affecting teacher supply. Surveys over the past four years indicate that federal action has helped to alleviate the previous teacher shortage and may have contributed to the present surplus of teachers. GAO noted that: a) no central information source identifies federal education programs that affect the teaching profession; b) agencies...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Elementary School Teachers, Federal Government, Federal Programs, Secondary School...
This report attempts to predict the rates of teacher turnover in the 1970s, which teachers will leave the profession, and what the effects of turnover will be on the educational personnel system. The overall termination rate has varied from six to 11 percent over the last 15 years. An analysis of recent changes in the teaching profession is used to modify collected results on these past rates of turnover. The report recommends that administrators should not try to prevent the coming surplus of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Labor Turnover, Teacher Employment, Teacher Persistence, Teacher Retirement, Teacher...