The creation of the two conditions mentioned above, and the ultimate entrance of sufficient numbers of better persons into teaching will be facilitated by well-planned, well-financed, and well-directed programs of recruitment on local, state, and national levels. Phi Delta Kappa's Commission for the Selective Recruitment of Teachers recently challenged each individual teacher to assume his share of the responsibility for recruitment by starting an action program: first, as a one-man campaigner; Second, as a member of a faculty; and third, as a citizen in a community. After citing some twenty-five specific things which individuals could do, the Commission concluded by pointing out that, in order to meet the teacher needs of 1956, eleven per cent of all the pupils who were graduated from the high schools of our nation last spring must be prepared to enter the teaching profession four years hence. If that portion of the seniors of the high school in your community has not entered a program of teacher education, then you have a job to do.
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