Policy solution or hollow promise? Will mid -career entrants to U. S. public school teaching help avert a teacher shortage, reduce racial and gender imbalances, and fill vacancies in hard -to -staff subjects and schools?

• Main Author: Marinell, William H
• Format: Dissertation
• Language: English
• Published: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses 01.01.2009
• Subjects: Alternative Teacher Certification; Beginning Teachers; Data Analysis; Education Policy; Educational administration; Outcomes of Education; Preschool Teachers; Public schools; Race; School administration; Teacher Certification; Urban Schools

In the face of a predicted shortage of public school teachers, experts have identified “mid-career entrants” to teaching—teachers who enter the profession as a second career—as a source of supply of public school teachers that will be critical to tap in order to avert a staffing crisis (e.g. Nationa...