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Kallio, Brenda; Geisel, Richard – National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP), 2007
Public schools are unique environments where the rights and responsibilities of one individual or group can easily, if unintentionally, infringe on the rights and responsibilities of other individuals or groups. This can leave public school employees wondering about the nature and scope of their rights. While it is well established that public…
Descriptors: Work Environment, School Personnel, Principals, Secondary School Teachers
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Chisholm, Julie K. – Academe, 2006
These days, most newly hired faculty are appointed on a part-or full-time nontenure- track basis. The AAUP has reported that between 1975 and 2003, full-time tenure-track positions increased by only about 16 percent, while full-time non-tenure-track positions grew by 178 percent, and part-time appointment rose by 189 percent. Yet tenure…
Descriptors: Nontenured Faculty, Tenure, College Faculty, Job Security
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Edwards, David; Spreen, Carol Anne – Perspectives in Education, 2007
This article describes and analyses the growing trend of teachers as mobile knowledge workers in the global labor market. According to the authors, the task of small countries of fulfilling the increasing demands of universal primary education under Education for All (EFA) is reaching crisis proportions. With a more flexible labor market, teacher…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Global Approach, Educational Policy, Faculty Mobility
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Li, Yin – Frontiers of Education in China, 2006
It has been over ten years since the "Teacher's Law" took effect on January 1, 1994, and its promulgation and implementation have somewhat helped in protecting teachers' legal rights and interests. Undeniably, however, the "Teacher's Law" is defective in many aspects, such as the absence of teachers' legal identity, its failure…
Descriptors: Interests, Educational Legislation, Educational History, Foreign Countries
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Kaboolian, Linda – Education Next, 2006
According to Joe A. Stone of the University of Oregon, average students do better in classrooms with unionized teachers, but less able and more able students do not. While this particular assumption lacks empirical clarity, many administrators and school board members feel that it would be much easier to reform public education if teacher unions…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Boards of Education, Union Members, Unions
Eckes, Suzanne; McCarthy, Martha – National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP), 2006
Newly hired teachers regularly have questions about whether their lifestyles and actions outside of school could have repercussions on their career. Because they are expected to be role models for their students and thus held to a higher level of discretion than the general citizenry, educators have had restrictions placed on their living…
Descriptors: Role Models, Privacy, School Personnel, Teacher Rights
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Fox, Robert A.; Buchanan, Nina K. – Journal of School Choice, 2006
Virtually all state charter school legislation addresses teacher rights and working environment. Relationships with teacher unions are either specified in the law, or approval of the charter requires suitable provisions for employee hiring, firing, grievances, etc. Charter school evaluation almost without exception includes some references to…
Descriptors: Teacher Rights, Charter Schools, School Attitudes, Teacher Participation
Moe, Terry M. – Education Working Paper Archive, 2006
In the positive theory of public bureaucracy, the prevailing view is that the structure of public agencies is designed from the top down by political superiors. Faced with bureaucrats who may disagree with them on policy and who are advantaged by private information, superiors choose rules and procedures to try to ensure that agencies do what they…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Schools, Public School Teachers, Collective Bargaining, Teacher Transfer
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