Presents the historical context and an overview of alternative teacher certification (ATC). Common properties include: states have installed various forms of ATC since the early 1980s, people who enter teaching via alternate routes are usually self-selecting, and alternative programs include an intern/mentor relationship between candidates and…

Discusses the adoption of state standards in New Jersey, which requires all students in Grades K-12 to study a world language. The implementation of these standards has created many challenges for educators in terms of teacher shortages, teacher recruitment, and examination of current practices in both preservice and inservice teacher education.…

To help alleviate the severe shortage of principals in the next 10 years, advocates principals sharing leadership with teachers as a strategy for recruiting teachers to the principalship. Also suggests several ways principal training programs can support and foster collaborative leadership. (PKP)

Discusses how Black educators say too few young Blacks, regardless of whether they attend historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) or majority White institutions, are choosing physics as an undergraduate major or a career with the acquisition of a Ph.D. Explores the role that HBCUs, collaboration with the federal government, and Black…

In this article, we report data from two projects concerned with the aspirant principals' perspectives about school principal recruitment in three Australian states. In particular, we consider what our informants perceive as factors that inhibit the realisation of their aspirations. These factors include aspects of the operation of school-based…

The shortage of teachers in America's classrooms is reaching epidemic proportions. The National Education Association (2003) predicted that nearly one million veteran teachers will retire within the next decade, and reported that the number of classrooms without qualified teachers increases each year. In this article, the authors contend that a…

Given the surging growth in the U.S. Latino population in recent years, nowhere have those increases been occurring faster than in the southeast. North Carolina, Arkansas and Georgia, for example, have seen population increases between 300 and 400 percent since the early 1990s. Naturally, Latino community leaders and state officials have been…

In the last decade there have been many attempts to mount online distance higher education programs on a global scale, led by the e-learning industry and university companies and consortia, some with government support: e.g. Universitas 21 Global, Cardean University, Fathom, NYUOnline and the UKe-University. A primary commercial objective has been…

Currently in the UK there is much pressure to increase the recruitment and retention of ethnic minority teachers, not only to respond to the continuing shortage, but to develop a teaching force that reflects the diversity in the UK population and provides role models for ethnic minority students. There is, however, little research on how ethnic…

School officials and policymakers have grown increasingly concerned about their ability to attract and retain talented teachers. A number of authors have shown that in recent years the brightest students--at least those with the highest verbal and math scores on standardized tests--are less likely to enter teaching. In addition, it is frequently…

University-school partnerships can be effective in recruiting undergraduate science majors to careers in education, enhancing the capacity of in-service teachers, and improving science literacy among school-age children. A partnership model that included extended elementary classroom teaching experiences for university students, professional…

Jim Black is president of SEM WORKS, one of the leading higher education consulting firms in the area of enrollment management. Dr. Black has delivered keynote addresses and conducted training workshops for business leaders and educators worldwide. His areas of expertise include leadership, organizational change, customer service, strategic…

In this article, the author discusses the military recruiting in high schools that has been a mainstay of the so-called all-volunteer armed forces from the start. High school kids are at an age when being a member of an identifiable group with a grand mission and a shared spirit--and never underestimate a distinctive uniform--is of exaggerated…

This article discusses the export of post-secondary education, together with the educational models and methodologies, by Canada to meet considerable international demands. In addition, their post-secondary institutions actively market their services overseas to attract international students to Canadian campuses. In the developed and developing…

In this article, the author talks about Darcy Frey's famous book "The Last Shot: City Streets, Basketball Dreams," which was published in 1994. In his book, Frey describes Coney Island's urban renewal wherein most of the cottages and triple deckers had been replaced by a vast tract of housing projects where African Americans now reside.…