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- Title: Expanding Teacher Preparation Pathways for Paraprofessionals: A Recruiting Seminar Series (Report)
- Author : Teacher Education Quarterly
- Release Date : January 22, 2009
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 231 KB
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The landscape of public schools is changing. Nationally, nearly one third of school age children are cultural minorities versus only 16% of the teaching force (National Center for Education Statistics, 2003). Projections for the next twenty years estimate dramatic changes in national demographics with 61% of the population increases occurring among members of the Hispanic and Asian communities (Hodgkinson, 2002). In response to changing demographics, teacher education programs have been limited in their ability to produce substantial numbers of teachers from racial, ethnic, and language minority groups (Clewell & Villegas, 1998; Hodgkinson, 2002; Kane & Orsini, 2005; Villegas & Lucas, 2002; Su, 1997). Schools in general and urban schools in particular, suffer from a shortage of minority teachers in their teaching force. On a national level, the number of minority teachers is diminishing, while the number of minority students continues to grow (Hodgkinson, 2002; Stanford, 1999).