Widespread critical shortages of high-quality teachers in the United States (Sutcher, Darling-Hammond, Carver-Thomas, 2016) has prompted considerable research on staffing trends within the teaching profession. Research suggests both an increase in the demand for teachers and a "chronic and relatively high annual turnover compared with many…

Every year the U.S. Department of Education reports for each state in the country the grade levels, subject areas, and geographic areas that have experienced teacher shortages (U.S. Department of Education, Office of Postsecondary Education, 2015). A teacher shortage occurs when the number of teachers available in a specific grade, subject matter…

For more than a decade, the Center for the Future of Teaching and Learning has supported the Teaching and California's Future (TCF) initiative to provide California policymakers with objective and timely data on the state's teacher workforce. Each year, the Center publishes a report on the status of teaching profession. This year's report focuses…

In 2007, the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, with support from the Lehman Brothers Foundation, commissioned Public Agenda to explore interest in teaching careers among high-achieving college students, recent graduates, and potential career changers. MetLife Foundation, specifically interested in potential career changers as…

In 2007, the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation launched a new teaching fellowship designed to recruit and prepare a new generation of top teacher talent for the nation's schools. Aimed at both traditional-age "and" midcareer candidates, the initiative offers $30,000 Fellowships to individuals with strong records of academic…

This compendium describes nearly 100 national, regional, and state resources, including data sources, initiatives, Web sites, studies, and reports related to teacher mobility. It offers policymakers, researchers, and educators information and approaches to guide research and focus policy discussions on particular aspects of teacher mobility.…

This introduction to the journal's topical issue on supply and demand in special education personnel preparation notes methodological issues in assessing supply and demand, definitional issues, and the importance of accurate determination of supply and demand needs in special education. (DB)

This study looked at future demand for faculty at institutions of higher education by developing a larger and more sophisticated model of faculty demand than previously used and by examining faculty separation and hiring patterns among independent colleges and universities. All members of the Higher Education Data Sharing Consortium (125…

Examines the relationship between teacher shortages and teacher salary differentials for mathematics and science teachers from a sample of school districts within large metropolitan areas. Results support the proposition that salary differentials between teachers and alternative occupations influence teacher shortages. (MLF)

Reported in this part of the survey are faculty demographics, faculty vacancies, and contrasts between conditions in 161 engineering schools and 68 engineering technology schools. Highlights are reported and the methodology of the survey is discussed. (CW)

This report presents scenario projections of the demand for academics in Australia to the year 2002, together with supply side projections on the numbers of new higher degree holders offering themselves for academic employment in that country. Chapter 1 offers an introduction and review of background issues. The second chapter outlines the…

This document records statistics on New York State public school enrollment and staff for 1986-1987. Tables are provided for the following: (1) districts and pupils by type of district; (2) districts and pupils by size of district; (3) public school enrollment by level; (4) number of professional staff members; (5) number of paraprofessional and…

A local study of faculty attrition in a four-campus university system examined two factors not considered in national studies: discipline and campus location (urban or rural). Lack of forecasted increases in local demand for faculty puts into question whether special action to increase faculty supply is needed. (MSE)

This article offers a conceptual model for studying teacher attrition and retention. The model incorporates historical, environmental, and external factors believed to influence teachers' decisions about whether to continue teaching. The framework is used to draw implications for future special education teacher preparation research. (Author/DB)

The theory, research, and prescription done during the 1970's in the areas of classroom management and school discipline are reviewed in this analysis, and the effects of this work on student behavior problems is assessed. An analysis of the sociopolitical context in which scholarly models, research paradigms, and systems for running schools were…