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…

Part one of this manual introduces the supervisor to the Youth Tutoring Youth program and outlines his particular responsibilities; the outline also provides a guide to seven resource chapters in part two which contain specific information about how to fulfill the responsibilities. Through the resource chapters, information on the following…

Generalized views of the role of the elementary school in a democratic society and of the uniqueness of each student have implications for policy in improving elementary education. Owing to the youth of its clientele, the elementary school has an intense impact. No school so greatly affects so many Americans. It is a democratic institution…

The purposes of this national study were to investigate practices used by colleges in the recruitment and selection of potential industrial arts teachers, to identify factors which influence students to enter industrial arts teaching, and to devise recruitment and selection procedures. Questionnaire data were collected from 270 college students…

This paper examines current program efforts at the University of California, Los Angeles, which are designed to meet the needs of minority students, particularly Negroes and Mexican-Americans. Recruitment of these groups, traditionally barred from regular college admission, has been pursued with the help of minority students who go into the…

Included in this report are the following papers which were delivered at the conference: (1) "Elements in a Manpower Blueprint--Library Personnel for the 1970's" by Paul Wasserman, (2) "New Directions in Library Education?" by Lester Asheim, (3) Howard Roberts Lamar's response to receiving the Southwestern Library Association's…

This booklet contains training recommendations for professional, administrative, and commercial trainees of the carpet industry in Great Britain. Focus is upon persons to be trained; responsibility for training; assessment of training needs; recruitment and selection; descriptions of types of programs; instruction and supervision; control of…

This review on the gifted student reveals quite forcefully that those who are young, gifted, and black have neither been observed nor served to any appreciable extent. The findings of this survey of programs show that most schools that responded to the questionnaire had more than one program for student with high academic potential and that these…

This document summarizes the final report of the Commission on Educat1on for Health Administration with emphasis on the recommendations and observations on health administration education for the next decade. Recommendations cover unmet educational needs, developing lifelong learning opportunities, improving educational content, enhancing…

The purpose of the project was to provide instructional and technical services directed towards remediation of problems associated with motivation, recruitment, and retention being encountered by 57 individuals affiliated with rural adult basic education programs in Regions 7, 8, 9, and 10 of the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.…

The status of women faculty at the University of Wisconsin was investigated in a survey sent to all faculty women on the tenure track in teaching departments. Questionnaire responses were categorized into academic qualifications; teaching responsibilities; publications; marital status; family background; religion; organizational membership;…

A questionnaire designed to assess reaction to possible enlistment incentives was administered to 100 junior college students. A factor-analysis of the measure indicated the importance both of traditional tangible incentives and of the "newer" incentives of control over one's work life. The data also indicated that: a) individuals term low…

This report discusses the recruitment, training, and development of management teachers in the United Kingdom. Chapter 1 presents a summary of the main recommendations. Chapter 2 presents the scope of this report, the scope of a report that is to follow, and a definition of management teachers. Chapter 3 deals with management education at present…

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,…

According to its President, the Association's achievements during the year were hampered by the change in Government, financial cutbacks, price increases, and job shortages for qualified librarians, but its membership continues to grow and its activities continue to diversify. Other topics covered in the report include the public lending right;…