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50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Attracting and Recruiting an Ethnically Diverse Teaching Force.
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Contreras, Gloria; Engelhardt, Jon M. – Teacher Education and Practice, 1991
Presents information from a Texas conference which examined the problems of creating an ethnically diverse teaching force. Recommendations for recruiting culturally diverse students into teaching are provided, focusing on the role of public school educators, university personnel, state legislators, education agency personnel, educational…
Descriptors: Access to Education, College Faculty, College Students, Cultural Pluralism
Summer Transitional Programs to Attract Minorities to Teaching.
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Nicklas, Willis L.; Contreras, Gloria – Teacher Education and Practice, 1991
Describes the successful University of North Texas Minority Teacher Recruitment Program's transitional experience for recruiting minority two-year college and high school students via a five-week, university-based summer session. Recommendations to colleges of education include promote forgivable loan programs; prioritize low student transfer…
Descriptors: Access to Education, College Transfer Students, Cultural Differences, Equal Education