Article listed questions found to be greatly beneficial in selecting teacher candidates at a time when it is extremely difficult to differentiate between the most acceptable and the very most acceptable. (Author/RK)

Advice to administrators from the assistant director of teacher recruitment for the Chicago public schools. (SP)

The author discusses various cases involving desegregation. The focus is on alleged injustices inflicted upon teachers by the process of desegregation. (MF)

If student teaching is purported to be the culminating experience of a rather lengthy training process, should it not then approximate an actual life situation? Given this premise and the competitiveness of the student teacher placement process, the interview then becomes an integral part of gaining an educational appointment. (Editor/RK)

Article examined some of the arguments utilized in support of the quota system for hiring teachers. (Author/RK)

This article described a survey recently completed on the selection processes for admitting students into teacher education programs. (Editor/RK)

Article focuses on the exasperating experience faculty members face in attempting to fill out job placement forms for their students. It further stresses a need for a unified and defensible teacher training program. (Author/RK)

If the restrictions of credentialing requirements were lifted public schools could make much greater use of teaching talent. (AP)

Reports a survey of 41 school districts, discussing teacher employment applications and interviews as representative of attitudes and behaviors that school districts desire in potential employees, and their relevance and usefulness to preservice education students. (SR)

Argues that the teacher selection process should begin at the college level with aptitude testing and personal interviews by a faculty committee. Calls upon administrators to borrow from the hiring practices of the business world in choosing teachers. (FL)

In recent research undertaken by the author a panel of middle school experts judged a number of criteria to be essential in order for a school to consider itself a true middle school. The qualities included in this article for the six middle school subsystems are derived from their valuable input. (Author/RK)