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Academic Senate for California Community Colleges, 2010
The Rostrum is a quarterly publication of the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges. The following articles are included in this issue: (1) The Master Plan for Higher Education and the Missions of the California Community Colleges (Jane Patton); (2) Academic Dishonesty and the Faculty's Right to Assign a Grade: A Test of the Academic…
Descriptors: College Governing Councils, Community Colleges, Master Plans, Institutional Mission
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Militello, Matthew; Schimmel, David – Action in Teacher Education, 2008
This article examines how preservice and in-service teachers can be prepared to understand and implement school law. First, we report on research findings about what teachers know, do not know, and want to know about education law and where they get their information. Second, we identify the current norms, practices, and implications of preservice…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Inservice Teacher Education, Knowledge Level, School Law
Donlevy, J. Kent – International Electronic Journal for Leadership in Learning, 2009
In 2005, a total of approximately 2, 915 student teachers were placed for practicum purposes in Alberta's schools by the five Alberta universities which offer teacher preparation programs leading to the Bachelor of Education degree: the University of Alberta, the University of Calgary, the University of Lethbridge, King's University College, and…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Foreign Countries, Educational Legislation, Program Descriptions
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Cain, Timothy Reese – American Educational History Journal, 2009
In the modern era, the National Education Association (NEA) is committed to the rights of teachers and faculty members to teach, undertake research, and lead fully political lives without fear of retribution. This devotion can be seen in policy statements, legislative activities, and the pages of "Thought and Action," its journal devoted to higher…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Academic Freedom, Elementary Secondary Education, College Faculty
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Imber, Michael – Action in Teacher Education, 2008
This article explores common misbeliefs and misconceptions that many teachers have about the law of education, focusing on those that have the greatest potential to cause harm to schools, students, and teachers themselves. The myths fall into three categories: myths concerning the legal vulnerability of schools and teachers, myths concerning the…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Misconceptions, Teachers, Knowledge Level
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Clayton, Jennifer K. – Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership, 2009
This case study focuses on a teacher who discloses a learning disability to her Principal. Given the teacher's challenges in retention of her content material, the district is faced with how to handle the personnel situation of an employee with a disability. This case raises questions of how to balance the needs and interests of students with the…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Teacher Competencies, Case Studies, Self Disclosure (Individuals)
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Aydin, Inayet; Karaman-Kepenekci, Yasemin – Journal of Educational Administration, 2008
Purpose--This study aims to present the opinions of public elementary school principals in Turkey about the current organisational justice practices among teachers from the distributive, procedural, interactional, and rectificatory dimensions. Design/methodology/approach--The opinions of 11 public elementary school principals in Ankara about…
Descriptors: Opinions, Focus Groups, Foreign Countries, Principals
Teh, Mui Kim – School Business Affairs, 2009
School business officials and other education leaders worry now more than ever about facing legal battles. Maybe today's parents are more likely to run to the lawyer's office. Or maybe they simply expect everything to be a certain way--their way. Regardless, the result is the same: today's school leaders are likely to find themselves having to…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Legal Problems, Prevention, School Business Officials
Gordon, Neve – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2007
While both the author and Norman Finkelstein were reviled by American Zionists for their opinions regarding Israel's policies in the occupied Palestinian territories when they came up for tenure, the author ultimately gained tenure at an Israeli university, while Finkelstein was denied tenure at an American one. Drawing on this experience, the…
Descriptors: Tenure, Academic Freedom, Universities, Foreign Countries
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Webb, Sheila Anne – Forum on Public Policy Online, 2007
One may ask, "What is tenure today with its fuzzy parameters?" Is it a property right that a faculty member may earn and "hold" to retain employment? To understand the issue, educators must first understand what they are tenured to. Since the tenure process emanates from a department, are they tenured to a department or to a…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Tenure, Personnel Policy, College Administration
Beckner, Gary, Ed. – Association of American Educators, 2007
"Education Matters" is the monthly newsletter of the Association of American Educators (AAE), an organization dedicated to advancing the American teaching profession through personal growth, professional development, teacher advocacy and protection. This issue of the newsletter includes: (1) How to Avoid Burnout (Kate Johanns); and (2)…
Descriptors: Teacher Burnout, Academic Achievement, Court Litigation, Federal Legislation
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Bernard-Donals, Michael – College Composition and Communication, 2009
In this essay, the author explains how teaching assistant (TA) unions work to the benefit not only of the graduate students who are their members but also of the writing programs that employ them. While university administrations understand unions to be bothersome at best and forces of evil at their worst, unions are essential to the maintenance…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Unions, Teaching Assistants, Graduate Study
Bugeja, Michael J. – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2008
Most people have at least secondhand knowledge about Second Life, a virtual-reality world created by Linden Lab, in which avatars (digital characters) lease "islands" for real-life purposes--to sell products, conduct classes, do research, hold conferences, and even recruit for admissions. About nine million avatars reportedly interact on this…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Technology Integration, Technology Uses in Education, Technology Education
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Hale, Sharon Joy Ng – Academe, 2007
Online education is particularly well suited to the needs of community college students. Although community colleges have lower per-unit fees than four-year colleges and universities, many community college students still experience economic hardship. Even with fee waivers, students may have problems finding the money for textbooks,…
Descriptors: College Students, Teacher Rights, Community Colleges, Online Courses
Honawar, Vaishali – Education Week, 2007
Videos of teachers that students taped in secrecy are all over online sites like YouTube and MySpace. Angry teachers, enthusiastic teachers, teachers clowning around, singing, and even dancing are captured, usually with camera phones, for the whole world to see. Some students go so far as to create elaborately edited videos, shot over several…
Descriptors: Internet, Telecommunications, Videotape Recordings, Teacher Rights
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