Any solution to the surplus of senior teachers without positions must reflect this reality if it is to be fair to those teachers whose only crime has been to give the city years of service.
These, and many other, insights would not have been possible without the visual surplus of the teachers, researchers and infants in polyphonic chorus.
The Board of Education began recruiting in Austria in 1998, after Alfred Posamentier, a professor of mathematics education at City College, pointed out that Austria had a surplus of math and science teachers, many with advanced degrees.
Free schools are being opened in parts of England where there are surpluses of places, a teachers' union says.
Instead, the commission called on Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani to grant large raises for job categories for which there is a shortage of applicants, like math teachers, but far smaller raises for jobs for which there is a surplus of applicants.
But the commission called for a raise of just 1.2percentt, or about half the inflation rate, for job categories like elementary school teacher, firefighter and correction officer, for which it said there was a surplus of applicants.
The literature has shown that disadvantaged schools have difficulty recruiting teachers and are less selective in hiring, while advantaged schools tend to have a surplus of applicants, allowing them to be more selective.
