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May 2001 | Volume 58 | Number 8

Who Is Teaching Our Children?

Feature Articles

Perspectives / Ideals and Shortcuts

Marge Scherer

Improving the Quality of the Teaching Force: A Conversation with David C. Berliner

Marge Scherer

An authority on teacher expertise discusses ways to inspire more confidence in the profession.

The Challenge of Staffing Our Schools

Linda Darling–Hammond

In times of shortage, what can states and districts do to retain the best teachers?

Who's in Our Classrooms: Teachers Speak for Themselves

Carol Tell

Teachers describe the moments that reveal why they stay in teaching.

Why New Teachers Choose to Teach

Deborah Wadsworth

The Public Agenda's A Sense of Calling suggests that new teachers are far from apathetic about their new profession.

Removing the Barriers for Teacher Candidates

Chester E. Finn Jr. and Kathleen Madigan

The authors call for compressed training programs, flexible hiring policies, and more alternative routes for teacher candidates.

No Shortcuts to Preparing Good Teachers

Barnett Berry

The author examines the flaws and weaknesses of alternative licensing programs.

Making Room for Alternative Routes

Carol Tell

How are alternative models like Teach for America doing in staffing high-needs schools?

The Realities of Out-of-Field Teaching

Richard M. Ingersoll

What's behind the many mismatches between class assignments and teachers' coursework, and what can be done to correct the problem?

Why Competency Tests Miss the Mark

Greta Nagel and Penny Peterson

Required standardized tests can eliminate good candidates; multiple measures for assessing new teachers work best.

Strengthening Teaching Through National Certification

Dolores Boylston Bohen

Teachers undergoing the national certification process often perceive it as the best professional development of their career.

A Wider Role for the National Board

Ann E. Harman

How the National Board's standards are influencing teachers and the education system.

Growing Great Teachers in Cincinnati

Susan Keiffer-Barone and Kathleen Ware

The Career-in-Teaching program offers performance-based compensation and a career ladder that allows teachers to advance at their own pace.

Preparing Second-Career Teachers

Virginia Resta, Leslie Huling and Nancy Rainwater

Project TRIP in Texas helps adults who are changing professions to meet the needs of students.

Supporting a Diverse Teacher Corps

Olaf Jorgenson

How do we attract teachers from under-represented ethnic groups to teach our increasingly diverse students?

Helping Immigrants Become Teachers

Flynn Ross

A program in Maine finds teacher candidates among the community's highly educated immigrant population.

Where Have All the Principals Gone?

David Alan Gilman and Barbara Lanman-Givens

Daunting tasks often deter would-be principals.

The Learning Needs of Principals

ElizaBeth McCay

How can a principal grow on the job?

Special Topic

Special Topic / Using Portfolios to Reflect on Practice

Seung-Yoeun Yoo

A professor introduces observational portfolios to Korean educators.

Departments

Response / Avoiding Comprehensive Schoolwide Reform Models

Stanley Pogrow

Research Link / The Benefits of Mentoring

John H. Holloway

Letters

Having Your Say / Results from the February Reader Survey

Kevin Davis and Lisa Bintrim

EL Extra

Carol Tell

Reviews

Your Turn—A Survey for Readers

ASCD in Action

Web Wonders / Teachers for Today and Tomorrow

Lisa Bintrim

Copyright © 2001 by Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development




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