Mr. McCarthy, who is based in California and will remain there during the search, has conducted searches for universities, school districts and nonprofit educational organizations.
One company, Lotus Tours, founded in 1959 and based in New York, has focused on special-interest tours to China since 1973, arranging trips for museums, universities, school groups and the like.
Although it may be possible to "hide the problem" for some time longer in the universities, school teaching "is already at an absolute crisis point", he says.
In many countries, ministries of education, universities, school districts, and various other educational entities responsible for offering formal teacher education and on-going professional development support teachers in remaining current in their expertise.
Although professional development offered by universities, school districts, and other educational entities provides the primary source of formal learning tools for teachers, an increasing number of teachers also utilize other informal web-based resources regularly.
It is owned by Phillips 66. Increased demand for the tour from universities, school groups and families now has the Huntington Park-based organization hosting hundreds of visitors on dozens of bus trips a year.
