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IS
TEACHER SHORTAGE IN THE U.S. REAL?
California
Florida New
Orleans
Washington Cincinnati
Texas
Kentucky
New York Philadelphia
Boston Dallas
Nevada
California
Why
Join?
Desperate
to find qualified teachers for the city's most underserved schools,
Los Angeles Superintendent Roy Romer launched a campaign Wednesday
to recruit mid-career professionals and train them for the
classroom.
Romer
said the Los Angeles Unified School District will begin running
print, radio and movie advertisements this week, appealing to
white-collar professionals with at least a bachelor's degree who are
interested in a career change and who want to make a difference in
children's lives.
Source:
http://www.lateachingfellows.org/press.shtml
Gov.
Davis allocates funds to resolve teacher shortage
The
Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) is facing a shortage of
full-time and substitute teachers.
In
light of the problem, Gov. Gray Davis has allocated money
specifically earmarked for colleges to train more students to enter
the profession.
The
shortage is due to the increase of students enrolling in LAUSD
schools, as well as the California class size reduction policy which
caps kindergarten through fourth-grade classes at 30 students.
Source: http://www.dailybruin.ucla.edu/DB/issues/99/05.20/news.schools.html
State
to Tap Middle-Aged for Teachers
This
year alone, about 22,177 new teachers will be needed statewide, more
than a third of them in Los Angeles County, according to the state
Department of Education.
Class
size reduction increased the need for teachers, bringing about
10,000 uncredentialed teachers into the state's primary grade
classrooms. But a tidal wave of teacher retirements and continued
growth in the student population also play significant roles.
Source:
http://www.laep.org/essay/10_15_99/middleage.html
The
Teacher Shortage: Solutions That Work
Low
pay, large classes, lack of respect for the profession: Those are
probably the most common in a long list of reasons cited for the
nation's teacher shortage, which most experts predict will worsen
over the next decade. What can school administrators do to combat
the dearth of teachers?
Source:
http://www.education-world.com/a_admin/admin274.shtml
Help
Wanted: Teacher Preparation in Kern County
The
clock is ticking on Kern County's teacher supply. Like in the rest
of the State, fully trained teachers are in short supply in Kern
County, and are difficult to recruit and retain.
The
teacher shortage isn't new to local educators. Nor is it being
ignored.
Source:
http://www.irvine.org/news/newsletter/Vol.2_Issue2/3_education.htm
Lots
of Students, Not Enough Teachers
Since
California passed class-size reduction legislation three years ago,
the number of teachers teaching on emergency permits has jumped to
more than 18,000. Often, these teachers wind up teaching the
toughest classes in the poorest schools, with little support.
Source:
http://search.csmonitor.com/durable/1998/09/15/p51s1.htm
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Florida
Florida
Facing Major Teacher Shortfall
Board
Told Florida Needs 20,000 New Teachers This Fall
Florida's teacher shortage could produce a crisis in the coming
school year.
The
state Board of Education says Florida needs to hire 20,000 more
teachers before August. The increased hires are needed because of
the class-size amendment, ballooning numbers of students in the
state, and teacher retirements and transfers.
"Across
the state, that 20,000 number includes 16,000 a year that we have
to replace for retirements or turnovers," said Hillborough
County Administrator Jim Hamilton. "If we can reduce that
rate that will help a lot."
Source:
http://www.nbc6.net/education/1991867/detail.html
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New
Orleans
Explanations
Behind Teacher Shortage
The
idea that shortages of teachers across the nation can be attributed
largely to a wave of retirements or to surges in student enrollments
is a myth, argues a University of Pennsylvania researcher.
Source:
http://www.edweek.org/ew/newstory.cfm?slug=30aera.h21
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Washington
Bridging
the great teacher gap
They
call it the "baby boom echo," but this one just gets
stronger. A record 53 million students are surging into the nation's
classrooms - and will keep on surging well into the next century.
For
many schools, it's meant figuring out how to shoehorn yet another
cluster of portable classroom trailers onto the lot. Or how to come
up with a few dozen new bus drivers, fast.
But
the toughest challenge for American education will be finding
qualified teachers. Shortages are so severe in some areas that
they're forcing lawmakers and educators to rethink the terms of the
teaching profession.
Source:
http://search.csmonitor.com/durable/1999/08/27/p1s1.htm
Cincinnati
Teacher
shortage may grow
New, tougher guidelines
for hiring teachers paid with federal dollars might worsen the
teacher shortage, especially in urban districts such as Covington,
where 835 students need special education, educators say.
Beginning
with the 2002-03 school year, all new teachers hired with Title I
funds must be “highly qualified,” which means they must have
full or permanent certification.
Source: http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2002/04/10/loc_teacher_shortage_may.html
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Texas
Teacher
Shortages: Myth or Math?
With the teacher shortfall in Texas projected to reach 66,000 by the
year 2020, legislators and administrators are scrambling to attract
or generate additional teachers as quickly as possible. Alternative
certification, such as Troops-To-Teachers, Teach-America, and the
Educational Service Centers' Programs will all help. Houston and
other districts are recruiting nationally and internationally to
fill current and projected vacancies with qualified teachers.
Grow-your-own programs are springing up statewide, grants are being
funded and even community colleges are now in the game, providing
interested students low-cost teacher education programs. Loan
forgiveness, hiring bonuses, housing allowances are additional
options being offered.
Source:
http://www.sareview.com/flint.html
Attracting
and keeping quality teachers
A
historic turnover is taking place in the teaching profession. While
student enrollments are rising rapidly, more than a million veteran
teachers are nearing retirement. Experts predict that overall we
will need more than 2 million new teachers in the next decade.
This
teacher recruitment problem, which has reached crisis proportions in
some areas, is most acute in urban and rural schools; for high-need
subject areas such as special education, math and science and for
teachers of color.
Source:
http://www.nea.org/teachershortage/
Teacher
Shortage
Education
is the cornerstone of the knowledge-based society. But will quality
teachers be available to provide it, or is the profession cracking
under the strain of low salaries, an ageing workforce and demand for
ever more complex teaching abilities?
Source: http://www.oecdobserver.org/news/fullstory.php/aid/431/Teacher_shortage.html
Is
Teacher Shortage Real?
With
some 2.2 million teachers needed in coming years by the nation's
schools a panel of education experts Tuesday debated how to get
them, and keep them.
In a
90-minute panel discussion at the National Press Club, eight experts
tossed about ideas for better pay and working conditions and outside
recruitment but came to no single conclusion.
Source: http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/8/14/195652.shtml
The
Teacher Shortage: Apply, Please!
In some areas, competition over certified
teachers has become so fierce that districts are promising signing
bonuses, paid health insurance, subsidized housing, and more. Just
what does it take to woo -- or lose -- a teacher? This week,
Education World explores what some school districts are doing to
attract and retain teachers.
Mix
together swelling numbers of immigrant and baby boomer children,
class size reduction initiatives, and a graying teacher force.
Source:
http://www.education-world.com/a_admin/admin155.shtml
Teacher
Shortage: False Alarm?
President
Clinton has warned the nation of an impending teacher shortage,
saying that we need 2.2 million teachers over the next decade.
Rising enrollments and the imminent retirement of many teachers are
the cause of this crisis, he explained, and so we must recruit more
people into the "pool" of teachers.
Inner cities and rural areas are having great difficulty finding
math and science teachers and often hire people without proper
credentials. New York City, for example, has about 10,000 teachers
who hold only emergency or temporary credentials. In some schools in
Oakland, California, half of the faculty is on emergency
certification.
Source:
http://www.pbs.org/merrow/tv/tshortage/
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Around
the Nation
Lots
of Students, Not Enough Teachers
Question:
Where will the schools find the teachers they need to fill this
fall's classrooms?
In
New York City, new math and science teachers are coming from Austria
and bilingual teachers from Spain. Mississippi is offering a free
college education to students who commit to teaching in districts
with critical shortages. Texas and California are making teachers
out of ex-aerospace engineers and volunteer parents.
Kentucky
In
response to such pressures, Kentucky is allowing five districts to
hire substitutes who have only a high school diploma, "as a
last resort," Kentucky officials say.
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New
York
New
York stayed ahead of the hiring game to avoid a repeat of last
year's fiasco, when 3,000 teaching posts remained vacant the week
before schools opened. This time, school administrators tried new
recruiting strategies, including importing 24 math and science
teachers from Austria and seven Spanish teachers from Spain.
New
York hired 7,500 teachers last year, and 5,000 this year. The city
estimates it will need yet another 30,000 new teachers over the next
five years. Math, science, and Spanish are the posts most difficult
to fill. For next year, Barton says he already has his eye on
Switzerland and Scotland, in addition to Austria.
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Philadelphia
Marjorie
Adler, the Philadelphia School District's human-resources director,
says that "people experience our hiring process as frustrating
and cumbersome. They get distracted and go elsewhere." She is
setting up a new information system to track applicants who may be a
year from a job decision, "so they don't go away feeling that
no one ever cared about them," she adds.
The
city's new approach is already showing results. "We have a
vacancy rate of just under 1 percent on the opening day of school.
By historic standards of shortage, that's small [about 100 teachers]
- but not if it's your kid's kindergarten teacher," she adds.
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Boston
Boston
is also tackling an antiquated recruitment process. Last year, the
city set up a computerized database of teacher candidates, held its
first-ever teacher fair, and began offering job guarantees to top
student teachers. It also expanded advertising in newspapers across
the country and completely reworked its recruitment literature.
"We've
redone the entire process," says Karen Cahill, director of
recruitment for the Boston Public Schools. "Before, nobody knew
if there was a rhyme or reason to whether we called someone back for
an interview. Now we have a strong process."
With
an eye to the future, state lawmakers in July approved $20,000
bonuses, over four years, to recruit top teachers. About 40 percent
of the state's 70,000 teachers will turn over in the next decade.
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Dallas
Dallas
is offering prospects a $1,500 signing incentive. "I've been
here 22 years, and we've never been fully staffed," says
Loretta Simon, spokeswoman for the Dallas Independent School
District. For the most part, the city has matched the growing
student population - 2,500 new students each year - with more
teachers and schools. But this year, the district is still about 185
teachers short of its full 9,800-teacher quota, she adds.
Source:
http://search.csmonitor.com/durable/1998/09/15/p51s1.htm
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