This study by the Rand Corporation is part of a series analyzing the educational personnel system. This report focuses on the principal educational manpower policy problem--the teacher surplus. Specifically, a number of alternative projections are developed for the market for teachers, showing policy issues that will arise if the current…

The impact of population trends upon teacher employment is examined. The growing and shrinking of school enrollment is discussed as it relates to trends in the nation's birth rate. The direct relationship of this phenomenon upon teacher shortage and over-supply and the employment prospects for teachers is considered. With currently declining birth…

This is the fifth report in a series on the educational personnel system in the United States. This report is an analysis of the paths by which individuals are attracted to, trained for, enter, and reenter the teaching profession. A review of previous analyses of the teacher market is followed by development of a theoretical model of occupational…