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A 5 page paper. There is a teaching shortage in America right now, which is leading schools to hire individuals who have emergency certificates rather than fully-trained teachers. It is urban schools that suffer the greatest lack of quality qualified teachers further perpetuating low achievement and high drop-out rates in these areas. It is also urban school districts where there is concentrated poverty. This essay discusses the reasons for the lack of qualified teachers in urban schools and provides data regarding this situation. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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because research clearly shows that lower class size has a dramatic effect on student performance. All it means is that it has caused an even greater shortage of qualified teachers.
And, it is the urban schools that suffer the greatest lack of qualified teachers. Oakes and colleagues put it this way: "Policy makers and school district administrators have responded to
the current teacher shortage with a characteristic focus on the short run. Popular responses include Peace Corps-like recruitment strategies to persuade college graduates to teach for a year or two
on alternative or emergency certification. . . . Nowhere has the rush to boost supply and de-skill teaching been more acutely felt than in urban schools" (2002, p. 228). Few
graduates of teacher education programs want to teach in big cities (Melcon, 2002). Teacher shortages result in schools hiring individuals who do not have full teaching credentials; many have emergency
credentials and in urban schools, few have any special training in the teaching of students in urban areas (Melcon, 2002). In fact, urban schools have been reporting teacher shortages
in the fields of special education, math, physical science and bilingual education for years and these schools historically must hire individuals who have emergency teaching certificates (NASBE, 2002). Consider these
data: * Urban schools are twice as likely to hire unlicensed or underqualified teachers (Melcon, 2002). * At least one survey found that 92 percent of the largest urban districts
reported an immediate need for teachers from minority races and ethnic groups (Melcon, 2002). * Only 20 percent of undergraduates in teacher education are minority-group members (Melcon, 2002) so individuals
from minority groups are not even entering teacher preparation programs * Newly hired teachers in urban schools are more likely than their counterparts in suburban and rural districts to
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