This article examines minority teacher recruitment policies and programs of the past two decades and explores their influence on the racial/ethnic makeup of the teaching force in elementary and secondary public schools. The results show that while important progress has been made toward increasing the overall number and proportion of minority teachers in the public schools, those gains have bee...

Dual-qualification nursing teachers are nurses who both teach and practice. However, it is still an unresolved issue to recruit and select a high-quality dual-qualification nursing teacher. This paper sets up a comprehensive assessment system model for dual-qualification nursing teacher recruitment, which was built by analytic hierarchy process (AHP). The model includes four sides such as biogr...

Amid already critical teacher shortages, the COVID-19 pandemic has prompted many teachers to leave profession, but we know little about how it may affect recruitment. Kayla Bill, Amanda Bowsher, Betty Malen, Jennifer King Rice, and Jason Saltmarsh conducted a survey focus groups explore influenced undergraduates’ interest in perceptions of teaching. The had mixed troubling effects on teaching, ...

A shortage of highly qualified math and science teachers pervades the U.S. public school system. Clearly, recruitment of talented STEM educators is critical. Previous literature offers many suggestions for how STEM teacher recruitment programs and participant selection should occur. This study investigates how early STEM majors who are not already considering teaching careers experienced a summ...

Dale Ballou is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. His research specializes in the economics of education, with particular focus on policies that effect teacher recruitment and performance. His work, much of it in collaboration with Professor Mike Podgursky of the University of Missouri, has appeared in the Journal of Human Resources, the Quarterly...

The critical role and effect of teacher assessment in ELT has been ratified by researchers among whom are Darling-Hammond (2000); Knox (2002); Bailey (2006); Davison & Cummins (2007); and Blum (2009).Taking this issue into account, this exploratory study seeks to investigate the underlying criteria of both recruiting and assessing in-service EFL teachers in private language institutes of Iran. ...