Warranty Pledges Help for Struggling Teacher Graduates

By Julie Blair

Like cars and washing machines, teachers who graduate from California State University-Long Beach this spring will come with one-year warranties.

Under a policy adopted last month, the university will aid stranded and struggling teachers during their first year on the job, shuttling education professors to school districts for one-on-one advice.

"As a part of the preparation, we have an obligation to go with [teachers] into the classroom," Robert Maxson, the president of the university, a campus of 28,600 students, said in an interview last week. "If we are doing as well as we think we are, then we'll have to honor this...