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TEACHER
SHORTAGE: FALSE ALARM?
President
Clinton has warned the nation of an impending teacher shortage,
saying in his most recent State of the Union address and elsewhere
that we will need to hire 2.2 million new teachers over the next
decade. Rising enrollments and the imminent retirement of many
teachers are the causes of this crisis, he explained, so we must
recruit more people into the 'pool' of teachers. But virtually
every President since Eisenhower has sounded the same alarm, and
somehow we have survived. Is the danger real this time, or could
this be a false alarm?
On this
edition of The Merrow Report, Elizabeth
Fideler of Recruiting
New Teachers and Richard
Ingersoll, assistant professor of sociology at the University
of Georgia, discuss the nature of the teacher shortage. Is Clinton's
plan to spend $1.2 billion on teacher recruitment the solution?
Could it be that we've misdiagnosed the problem? |
recorded 9/14/99
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ARTICLES
"The
Teacher Shortage: Apply Please!", Glori Chaika, Education
World, 3/27/00.
"Scrambling
for Staff: The Teacher Shortage in Rural Schools", Glori
Chaika, Education World, 1/10/00.
"Teacher
Shortage forces another school to send pupils home",
Will Woodward, Guardian Unlimited, 1/16/01.
"Teacher
Shortage Targeted by Proposed Clarke Program", Clarke
College News Release, Education World, 1/24/01.
WEB SITES
American
Association of Colleges for Teacher Education
California
Center for Teaching Careers
Education Week
The Holmes Partnership
(Reform in teacher training and professional
development)
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