In 1992, Ticonderoga Central School District, an isolated rural district in New York, advertised for a single elementary education teacher and received over 400 applications. Given recent publicity about an impending teacher shortage, a project was undertaken to determine the true status of teacher supply and demand in New York. Surveys of 63 of…

In June, 1989, The National Council of Jewish Women and Yale's Bush Center in Child Development and Social Policy convened the Family Day Care Round Table as part of the National Family Day Care Project. Goals of the round table were to: (1) explore hard questions about family day care; (2) identify promising programs and practices for enhancing…

This overview is intended to serve as a guide for readers who are not familiar with the employment and management of teachers in the member states of the European Community. It limits itself to general regulations governing the employment of teachers of pupils of statutory school age and up to age 18 in mainstream schools. The overview covers…

Participants at a conference on staffing multilingual schools reported that the rapid and significant increase in the number of limited English proficient (LEP) students throughout the country is compounding the existing problem of bilingual/English as a Second Language (ESL) staff shortages. The following concerns were outlined: (1) school…

This report responds to the California Maritime Academy's plan to develop a student affirmative action plan to address the needs of underrepresented, women, and low-income students. The report concludes that the final version of the plan (attached as an appendix) provides a good beginning for the changes that must occur at the Academy if…

This two-part document presents recommendations for meeting the national need for African American, American Indian, and Latino scholars, and reports on a conference on the role of college faculty in meeting that need. Part 1, "Meeting the National Need for Minority Scholars and Scholarship: Policies and Actions," emphasizes that college…

Symposium papers pertaining to the competition for students accompanying college desegregation are summarized. Attention is also briefly directed to the impact of court-ordered guidelines for the development of desegregation plans, and the North Carolina Central University's Institute on Desegregation, which promotes research into desegregation.…

A 1983-84 marketing plan is presented for Northern Virginia Community College (NVCC), which is designed to maximize the effective use of shrinking resources to meet the needs of the college's clientele. After introductory material discusses the problems and challenges facing NVCC and the role of marketing in understanding the environment in which…

Several points of view on the topics of affirmative action plans, reverse discrimination, and quotas in college admission, employment, and promotion are presented. (RC)

The Master Builders of Iowa, Iowa State University, and the University of Northern Iowa team up on how to attract and prepare more industrial arts and vocational teachers for teaching construction at the secondary and postsecondary levels. (Author/BP)

This study investigated the attitudes of high school seniors toward teaching as a career and their perceptions of the conditions associated with the teaching profession. Surveys were administered to 605 students with a return rate of 96.36 percent. Results suggest that a pool of minority high school students are available to be recruited into…

This paper analyzes the number and quality of young adults currently choosing teaching as a career in the United States and Japan. As a foundation for comparing recruitment to the teaching profession in the two countries, a conceptual framework analyzing the the process of individual self-selection, as well as institutional selection of…

During the past few years, there has been a drastic shortage of registered nurses in the field of psychiatric mental health. An evaluation conducted on an internship curriculum designed to facilitate effective nursing care in the treatment of clients who exhibit emotional problems is presented with details on a study to attract and retain nurses…

This document includes testimony and prepared statements on the Montgomery GI Bill by House committee members and Horton, Department of Veterans Affairs; Berteau, Department of Defense; Conte, Department of Defense; Conaway, National Guard Bureau; Bultman on behalf of Ward, Army Reserve; Scheer, Air Force Reserve; Taylor, Naval Reserve; Looney,…

The articles in this monograph focus on issues identified during participation in the U.S. Department of Education 1984 Teacher Incentive Structures Program, and the 1986 Project to Design Teacher Incentive Structures. Emphasis was on designing or adapting incentive structures for possible use in the school, community, or university. The following…