Includes four articles that address issues related to the recruitment and employment of librarians and support staff with disabilities. Highlights include the Americans with Disabilities Act; flexibility in work schedules and procedures; mentors; appropriate technology; and meeting the needs of disabled patrons. (LRW)

Business school deans (n=311) rated the present and future importance of organizational change factors. Highly rated were student recruitment, multimedia classrooms, and instructional use of the Internet. Public institutions' deans expected distance learning to be significantly more important. Private school deans considered recruiting more…

Faced with teacher shortages in some subject areas, a New Jersey district developed a comprehensive approach to increase the candidate pool, select superior candidates, and retain them once hired. Innovations include advertising on the Internet, accepting online applications, and encouraging students and nontraditional candidates to enter…

Presents a review of educational development in Britain, concentrating on the activities of the Institute of Public Relations (IPR), the professional body for individual public relations practitioners. Describes the IPR's first steps to define an appropriate curriculum that could form the basis of a qualification to limit entry to the Institute.…

Monetary and nonmonetary incentives for rural teacher recruitment are common in developing-country education systems. This paper interprets incentive policies within the framework of the economic theory of compensating differentials, clarifying implicit assumptions of incentive policies and aids in organizing further empirical work on their…

The University of South Carolina has been making a concerted effort to become a member of the American Association of Universities, which requires specific institutional accomplishments. Some African-American faculty are leaving the institution, feeling that membership-related issues are overshadowing other institutional aims. Other institutions…

Differentiates between alternative teacher certification programs, which involve waiving one or more state-mandated requirements for licensure, and other nontraditional routes to teaching, presenting 13 guidelines for quality in alternative and nontraditional programs. The paper recommends exploring four issues (program entry requirements, type of…

Most camps use specialists to run activities and cabin leaders to manage campers. However, a generalist model offers greater leadership development opportunities. To implement a more generalist paradigm, have camp leaders express their areas of skill and interest, pair up experienced and inexperienced staff, allow specialists to cover activities…

Describes the planning, leadership, and organizational strategies that formed the basis for the Houston School District's efforts to implement standards-based reform. Identifies some reform initiatives that need to be expanded, such as new uses of online instruction and new approaches to the recruitment and training of teachers. (PKP)

Education Queensland's Remote Area Incentives Scheme (RAIS) is intended to provide financial and other benefits to teachers who choose to accept employment in undesirable locations in the state. On paper, this scheme claims that remoteness from an urban centre is the foremost measure of a school's undesirability. However, the percentage of…

This article is a detailed response to the issues raised by the Post-14 Mathematics Inquiry in the UK. It aims to debate some of the central issues in mathematics teaching in the UK, including recruitment and retention of mathematics teachers, the curriculum content, national assessment, teaching resources (including ICT) and national strategies…

The extent to which colleges and universities provide opportunities for students from the most economically disadvantaged families is an important indicator of the potential for U.S. higher education to promote intergenerational mobility. Yet the measurement of "opportunity" for low-income students at the level of individual colleges and…

This article explores the possibility that state educational policies, involving accountability and instructional reform, and local district and school conditions interact with teachers' personal and professional backgrounds to shape two tracks of new teachers that reinforce existing educational inequities. The present 2-year study incorporated…

This study examines the role of district central offices in recruiting and hiring teachers and principals in an urban setting. Findings indicate many district human resources offices, particularly in urban settings, often lose quality candidates to suburban districts whose HR offices are better organized and pay closer attention to managing…

Since 1995, faculty at Ulster County Community College (now SUNY Ulster) have been teaching LIB 111: Information Literacy. As a result of an information literacy initiative that began in 1992, the reference librarians and faculty at SUNY Ulster developed an award-winning information literacy course. Teaching faculty are trained to teach the…