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The Career Paths of Teachers: Implications for Teacher Supply and Methodological Lessons for Research

Educational ResearcherPublished 1 August 1988
Richard J. Murnane, J. David Singer, John B. Willett
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Abstract

these questions matter to various actors in the educational system, including school board members and superintendents evaluating the adequacy of teacher salaries and teacher recruitment budgets and college students assessing the potential attractiveness of careers in teaching. The primary sources of quantitative information for addressing these questions are teacher supply and demand models. In fact, numerical projections of the size of the impending teacher shortage or surplus, based on the National Center for Education Statistics'

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Social Sciences