| Contributing Authors | ||
| Acknowledgments | ||
| Pt. I | Introduction | 1 |
| Introductory Remarks | 3 | |
| Conference Background | 7 | |
| The NCES Perspective | 9 | |
| Choosing Teachers and Choosing to Teach | 12 | |
| Pt. II | Summary | 19 |
| Summary of Conference Proceedings | 21 | |
| Overview of Teacher Supply, Demand, and Shortage | 24 | |
| Teacher Quality: A Major Policy Issue | 32 | |
| TSDQ Projection Models | 43 | |
| Teacher Data Bases | 53 | |
| General Suggestions for Action | 60 | |
| Pt. III | Policy Issues | 63 |
| The Problem of Improving Teacher Quality While Balancing Supply and Demand | 65 | |
| Policy Efforts to Improve the Supply of Quality Teachers | 69 | |
| Supply of Quality Credentials | 71 | |
| Supply of Teachers with High Tested Ability | 77 | |
| Supply of Demographically Representative Teachers | 82 | |
| Supply as a Function of the Quality of Professional Lives of Teachers | 87 | |
| Supply of High-Quality Classroom Teaching Practice | 92 | |
| Discussion | 109 | |
| Discussion | 117 | |
| General Discussion | 123 | |
| Pt. IV | Models | 127 |
| Models for Projecting Teacher Supply, Demand, and Quality: An Assessment of the State of the Art | 129 | |
| Models of the Demand for Teachers | 132 | |
| Models of the Supply of Retained Teachers | 148 | |
| Models of the Supply of Entering Teachers and the Supply-Demand Balance | 179 | |
| Overview: The State of the Art and Prospects for Improvement | 199 | |
| Discussion | 210 | |
| Discussion | 217 | |
| General Discussion | 222 | |
| Pt. V | Data Bases | 225 |
| State Data on Teacher Supply, Equity, and Qualifications | 227 | |
| Breadth of State Data on Teachers | 228 | |
| Quality and Timeliness of Teacher Data | 230 | |
| Linked Teacher Data from States | 232 | |
| Example of Uses of State Data for National Analyses | 232 | |
| Developing a Regional Data Base on Educators in the Northeast: Problems, Products, and Prospects | 242 | |
| Data Collection and Data Processing | 243 | |
| Utility of Administrative Data for Educator Supply, Demand, and Quality Models | 246 | |
| Prospects for the Northeast Regional Data Base | 248 | |
| Overview and Discussion of National Data Bases Relevant to Teacher Supply, Demand, and Quality | 253 | |
| Who Will Teach? | 262 | |
| Who Prepares to Teach | 262 | |
| Who Enters Teaching | 265 | |
| How Long Teachers Stay in Teaching | 265 | |
| Who Returns to Teaching | 268 | |
| Discussion: Teacher Supply and Demand Research With State Data Bases | 271 | |
| General Discussion | 281 | |
| Pt. VI | Conclusion | 285 |
| Directions for the Future | 287 | |
| Appendixes | 291 | |
| A : Conference Agenda and Attendees | 293 | |
| B : National Data Bases Related to Teacher Supply. Demand, and Quality | 299 | |
| C : Teacher Supply, Demand, and Quality Variables: National Data Base Sources | 318 |
Overview
It identifies additional data needed to clarify policy issues or for use in projection models, with a long-range view of contributing to the development of a teaching force of higher quality in the United States.
The book has major implications for the ...