Special issue includes two articles by Berens, two by Fairhurst, and one each by Freeman, Grutter, Meserow, and Van De Voorde and Berens. (SK)

Examines superintendent search and selection practices in New York State districts, using gatekeeping and career mobility theories. Findings illustrate how certain elements of school-board and headhunting practices, school-administration norms, and dominant ideological/sociocultural values facilitate nonminority males' access and limit others'…

This study, based on ethnographic methods, explores how the professional identities of a group of bilingual (Spanish/English) Latino/a teachers-in-the-making in an urban public school district in the USA are formed and enacted. It illustrates the national and local discourses that influence novice bilingual teachers in their professional…

This article discusses a phenomenon that gained prominence in the 1990s, namely the entry of retired senior Israeli army officers as managers into the educational system. This development will be analyzed through an exposure of the socio-educational mechanisms contributing to this process and an examination of the motivations underlying it. These…

While nearly all states now have something on their books labeled "alternate route to certification," these programs defy standard definition due to their enormous variability. States differ in the types of candidates allowed to apply (e.g., career changers or recent college graduates) and in the academic backgrounds these individuals must…

Compassion fatigue is a theoretical framework researchers have applied to helping professions other than teaching. The purpose of this report is to propose the use of this theory to better understand the prevalent rates of special education teachers' exit from the profession often labeled as burnout. A qualitative study with six middle school…

Through their own inventiveness and persistence, adults are circumventing institutional indifference and creating alternative educational networks to teach themselves art. Problems that must be overcome are as follows: inadequate instructor preparation, a generally narrow array of programs in most community centers with the preponderance of…

A continuum of professional development proposed at the University of North Florida conceptualizes points along the continuum as junctures for initiating collaborative activities between public schools and higher education. The findings of four different studies were merged to investigate the career development continuum of urban educators. The…

This book provides a blueprint to help both practicing and aspiring administrators conduct a successful job search. Eight chapters present specific strategies for the following: preparing a winning profile; locating and selecting potential positions; writing an effective job application; getting the job interview; negotiating the employment…

A growing number of graduate students are career changers who are seeking second careers as teachers. This paper focuses on 20 novice teachers, graduates of a program specifically designed to recruit and meet the needs of those who enter teaching from other careers. Two questionnaires, biographical in nature, were distributed to participants upon…

This 3-year longitudinal study was conducted in order to help students, enrolled in a graduate level teacher certification program designed for career change individuals, clarify their beliefs and perspectives about teaching and develop skills in reflective analysis. The study used perspectives including attitudes, values, beliefs, and behaviors,…

This paper analyzes changes in educational aspirations and related constructs as an approach to understanding student careers. It explores the effects of beginning postsecondary education in a two-year college versus a four-year college/university, after controlling for background characteristics (gender, race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and…

Changes in farming and agribusiness influence rural community and rural education. This paper reports on Kentucky-farmer surveys that focused on farm characteristics and adaptive strategies. The survey, when first conducted in 1986, yielded responses from 1,000 farmers. The second survey, in 1988, drew responses from 830 members from the first…

This do-it-yourself handbook for the individual looking for a new job is most useful if the individual is changing from one company to another, from one field to another, or from one kind of employment situation to another. Its goal is to help the job seeker get the knowledge he or she needs, use it to find employers who need his or her skills,…

A study, examining why some students in a credentials program chose not to become teachers, had three purposes: (1) to describe processes involved in becoming a "statistical dropout"; (2) to describe unsuccessful recruitment and socialization processes to improve the knowledge base and to understand where future interventions could be made; and…