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Selecting Teachers For Tenure In The East Whittier School District, Russell Palmer Vincent

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Boards of education throughout the country are cognizant of the shortage of well qualified elementary school teachers. There has been considerable competition among school boards for the limited supply of teachers, so much so that teachers have been tempted to move from place to place, standards of teaching proficiency have been lowered, and little relief of the general shortage has been achieved. When a school system has succeeded in filling all teacher vacancies, too frequently complacency reigns until the beginning of another school year.

When the quantitative shortage of teachers is compounded by a recognition of the persistent qualitative shortage, …