This report looks at age/time-related data for the teaching force in Illinois public schools now and as they are likely to be in the year 2000. The report also includes a description of reentering teachers and an assessment of the current status of, and future need for, administrative/supervisory personnel. The report answers the following…

The following information is provided in this monograph: (1) the number of graduates completing teacher preparation programs in 1980 and a comparison of figures for the seven previous years; (2) the number of teachers needed to raise the quality of public school programs and staffing to minimum levels; (3) the number of prospective teachers…

This issue brief uses data from the 1987-88 and 1990-91 Schools and Staffing Survey to examine the various sources on which schools depend to meet the increasing demand for new hires to teaching. There are four sources of newly hired teachers: new college graduates, college graduates who pursued other activities before entering teaching (delayed…