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McCarthy, Martha – National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP), 2008
What is the scope of First Amendment free expression rights of public school employees and students? Following a long period with no Supreme Court rulings pertaining to public employee or student speech, the Court since 2006 has delivered significant opinions in this regard. These decisions continue the trend of narrowing the circumstances under…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Freedom of Speech, Constitutional Law, Student Rights
American Federation of Teachers (NJ), 2009
This publication is designed to help teachers, nurses and paraprofessionals meet the challenges of dealing with children who have serious medical problems. It contains information on training, health and safety, and legal rights and responsibilities. Specifically, this third edition sets out to accomplish three goals: (1) to educate American…
Descriptors: School Buses, Student Transportation, School Nurses, Position Papers
Wheeler, Thomas E., III – School Administrator, 2007
In May 2006 administrators in the Austin, Texas, Independent School District learned that Tamara Hoover, an art teacher at Austin High School, was the subject of several explicit photographs that had been posted on Flickr, a public photograph-sharing website. Purportedly these photographs were posted on Flickr by the teacher's partner without her…
Descriptors: Photography, Teacher Behavior, Privacy, Teacher Rights
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Berube, Michael – Academe, 2006
This plenary address from the AAUP's annual meeting says that it is time to clear away the obfuscating rhetoric and emphasize the urgency of this basic democratic principle. Michael Berube argues that not only is academic freedom under attack, but that what the society is now dealing with is a coordinated program of obfuscation about just what…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Political Attitudes, Politics of Education, Teacher Rights
Burroughs, Nathan – Center for Evaluation and Education Policy, Indiana University, 2008
The role of collective bargaining in K-12 education invokes sharply different perspectives and debate. Teachers and administrators bring profoundly different points of view to the discussion, creating a division which significantly colors conversations on school reform. School administrators and many educational reformers have generally been…
Descriptors: Teacher Rights, Teacher Effectiveness, Elementary Secondary Education, Academic Achievement
Kommers, Piet, Ed.; Issa, Tomayess, Ed.; Issa, Theodora, Ed.; Chang, Dian-Fu, Ed.; Isias, Pedro, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2014
These proceedings contain the papers of the International Conferences on Educational Technologies (ICEduTech 2014), and Sustainability, Technology and Education (STE 2014). The International Conference on Educational Technologies (ICEduTech 2014) is the scientific conference addressing the real topics as seen by teachers, students, parents and…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Conferences (Gatherings), Educational Technology, Sustainability
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Schimmel, David; Militello, Matthew – Harvard Educational Review, 2007
In this article, David Schimmel and Matthew Militello document the legal knowledge and training of teachers based on a survey of more than thirteen hundred K-12 respondents in seventeen states. The findings from this study suggest that most educators (1) are uninformed or misinformed about student and teacher rights; (2) have taken no course in…
Descriptors: Teacher Rights, Elementary Secondary Education, School Law, Teacher Certification
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Uerling, Donald F. – Educational Considerations, 2007
Educators are generally aware that federal law protects persons with disabilities from unjustified discrimination, but they may not be familiar with the details of how these protections come into play when decisions are made about an individual's educational or employment opportunities. This article focuses on the protections that two federal…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Academic Accommodations (Disabilities)
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Ochs, Kimberley – Perspectives in Education, 2007
The Commonwealth Teacher Recruitment Protocol (CTRP), adopted by Commonwealth member states in 2004, "aims to balance the rights of teachers to migrate internationally, on a temporary or permanent basis, against the need to protect the integrity of national education systems, and to prevent the exploitation of the scarce human resources of poorer…
Descriptors: Migration, Teacher Recruitment, Human Resources, Developing Nations
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Ni, Shawn; Podgursky, Michael; Ehlert, Mark – National Center on Performance Incentives, 2009
Policy discussions about teacher quality and teacher "shortages" often focus on recruitment and retention of young teachers. However, attention has begun to focus on the incentive effects of teacher retirement benefit systems, particularly given their rising costs and the large unfunded liabilities. In this paper we analyze accrual of…
Descriptors: Teacher Retirement, Public School Teachers, Teacher Persistence, Labor Market
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Monahan, Amy B. – National Center on Performance Incentives, 2009
There is significant interest in reforming retirement plans for public school employees, particularly in light of current market conditions. This paper presents an overview of the various types of state regulation of public pension plans that affect possibilities for reform. Several states have legal protections that effectively prevent a state…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Retirement, State Regulation, Retirement Benefits
Foulger, Teresa S.; Ewbank, Ann Dutton; Kay, Adam; Popp, Sharon Osborn; Carter, Heather Lynn – Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2009
MySpace and Facebook are innovative digital communication tools that surpass traditional means of social interaction. However, in some instances in which educators have used these tools, public reactions to them have resulted in sanctions. With the notion that traditional ideas of privacy and teacher conduct are not yet defined in online worlds,…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Sanctions, Interpersonal Relationship, Interaction
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Nelson, Gerald – World Englishes, 2006
This paper is concerned with the "common core" of world Englishes. This is defined as the set of features and characteristics which all varieties have in common. It is also concerned with the "periphery", that is, those features which are unique to individual varieties, and are not shared with any other variety. The study is based on comparisons…
Descriptors: Teacher Rights, Computational Linguistics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Synott, John – International Electronic Journal for Leadership in Learning, 2007
This article presents a discussion of the development of Jeongyojo or the Korean Teachers and Educational Workers Union from its emergence as a social movement in the late 1980s to its current status and prominent campaigns. The article identifies certain aspects of South Korean history and culture that have shaped the distinctive identity of this…
Descriptors: Teacher Role, Unions, Foreign Countries, Social Change
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Williams, Robert L. – Innovative Higher Education, 2006
This paper examines the potential threat that a conservative sociopolitical culture poses to academic freedom in state colleges and universities. Already a number of states are considering legislation that would restrict professors' rights to discuss political issues within their classes, especially political issues having religious or moral…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, State Colleges, Teacher Rights, Political Issues
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