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Teacher supply and demand issues are of critical importance as our society enters the 21st century. Over the next decade, about two million new teachers will be needed largely because of a dramatic increase in enrollments and high attrition rates as an aging teacher workforce becomes eligible for retirement. It is important to understand where these teachers will come from and where they will teach. This is especially important for high-poverty districts that tend to have large numbers of students at risk of educational failure. These districts, which also tend to be disproportionately minority, are already facing difficulty recruiting and retaining qualified teachers. Given this, it is important to ask whether we will be able to staff high-risk and high-minority districts. National data show that these districts are staffed predominantly by minority teachers. Thus, the answer to the question of who will staff these districts revolves around whether we will have enough
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Staffing At-risk School Districts in Texas : Problems and Prospects
author
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Kirby, Sheila Nataraj.; Naftel, Scott; Berends, Mark
publisher
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RAND
isbn10 | asin
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0833027603
print isbn13
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9780833027603
ebook isbn13
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9780585243108
language
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English
subject
Minority teachers--Supply and demand--Texas--Longitudinal studies, Children of minorities--Education--Texas--Longitudinal studies.
publication date
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1999
lcc
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LB2833.3.T4K57 1999eb
ddc
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331.12/313711/009764
subject
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Minority teachers--Supply and demand--Texas--Longitudinal studies, Children of minorities--Education--Texas--Longitudinal studies.
Page i
Staffing At-Risk School Districts in Texas
Problems and Prospects
Sheila Nataraj Kirby Scott Naftel Mark Berends
Supported by the U.S. Department of Education
Page ii
The research reported here was supported by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement's Field Initiated Studies Grant Program under Grant No. R306F60175.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Kirby, Sheila Nataraj, 1946 Staffing at-risk school districts in Texas : problems and prospects / Sheila Nataraj Kirby, Scott Naftel, Mark Berends. p. cm. "MR-1083-EDU." Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 0-8330-2760-3 1. Minority teachersSupply and demandTexas longitudinal studies. 2. Children of minoritiesEducationTexas longitudinal studies. I. Naftel, Scott, 1952 . II. Berends, Mark, 1962 . III. RAND Corporation. IV. Title. LB2833.3.T4K57 1999 331.12 ' 313711 ' 009764dc21 99-39615 CIP
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Page iii
Preface
The research reported here was supported by Grant No. R306F60175 from the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement's Field Initiated Studies Grant Program. Teacher supply and demand issues are of critical importance as our society enters the 21st century. Over the next decade, we will need about two million new teachers, largely because of a dramatic increase in enrollments and high attrition rates as an aging teacher workforce becomes eligible for retirement. It is important to understand where these teachers will come from and where they will teach as our society faces increasing racial, ethnic, and linguistic diversity. Amidst this diversity is a continuing concern that some racial/ethnic groups are disproportionately placed at risk. The larger project focuses on teachers of at-risk children, with special emphasis on the supply and demand patterns of minority teachers, who tend to be the ones primarily teaching in high-risk districts. This report analyzes longitudinal data on teachers from Texas between 1979 and 1996 to address this issue. Our results show that although Texas has been successful in attracting minority teachers, it has a long way to go in attaining the goal of the Texas State Board of Education: to have a teacher workforce that reflects the racial/ethnic composition of the state. These results should be of interest to researchers and policymakers dealing with issues of teacher supply and demand, particularly with respect to minority teachers.
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Contents
Preface
iii
Figures
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Tables
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Summary
xiii
Acknowledgments
xix
Chapter One Introduction
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Staffing At-Risk Districts
2
Research Questions
4
Rationale for Selecting Texas as the Focus of Study
4
Availability of Longitudinal Teacher and District Data
5
High Representation of Minorities in the Teaching Force
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