ERIC_NO: EJ398195
TITLE: Reformers' Visions of Tomorrow's Teachers: A U.S.A. Perspective.
AUTHOR: Raths, James
PUBLICATION_DATE: 1989
JOURNAL_CITATION: Childhood Education; v65 n5 p263-67 1989
ABSTRACT: Describes four recommendations made by educational reformers seeking to improve the quality of the teaching workforce. Suggestions are to recruit more intelligent teachers, more persons committed to the profession, more minority people, and more teachers from the upper middle classes. These reform suggestions and the implications of those changes for teacher education and for teaching are discussed. (RJC)
MAJOR_DESCRIPTORS: Teacher Education; Teacher Effectiveness; Teacher Qualifications; Teacher Selection;
MINOR DESCRIPTORS: Public Education; Teacher Characteristics;
IDENTIFIERS: *Professionalism; *Reform Efforts
PUBLICATION_TYPE: 080; 142
CLEARINGHOUSE_NO: PS516900
LANGUAGE: English