Bulletin Board
Abstract
SEE HOW MUCH MORE THE NEW blulleti^ laard TEACHER SUPPLY. Reprints are now available of "The 1953 Teacher Supply and Demand Report" which appeared in the March 1953 Journal of Teacher Education. The material in the pamphlet was prepared by the NEA Research Division for the National Commission on Teacher Education and Professional Standards, under the direct supervision of Ray C. Maul, assistant director of the Research Division. (Readers are referred to Mr. Maul's article in this issue of the Journal entitled, "What Are You Doing About the Shortage of Teachers?") In the foreword to the report it is stated: "The 1953 report presents some alarming facts, in some respects the most alarming of all of the reports. The study reflects the harsh impacts of two factors which long have been recognized as threats to teacher supply: (1) the inevitable decline of college enrollments (the chief source of supply) as a result of low birth rates of the 1930's, and (2) the full-swing demands upon available manpower resources of the nation's defense program. By the fall of 1953 the schools will receive the first of what may prove to be an annual series of intense blows resulting from