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A Survey of Investing and Retirement Knowledge and Preferences of Preservice Teachers
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Thripp, Richard – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2019
New teachers are facing lower pay and less generous retirement benefits than the prior generation, yet their financial and retirement knowledge, concerns, and preferences have received little attention. To investigate these areas, the author developed a 39-item survey instrument and administered it to 314 preservice teachers in undergraduate…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Knowledge Level, Investment, Money Management
A Survey of Investing and Retirement Knowledge and Preferences of Preservice Teachers
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Thripp, Richard – Online Submission, 2019
New teachers are facing lower pay and less generous retirement benefits than the prior generation, yet their financial and retirement knowledge, concerns, and preferences have received little attention. To investigate these areas, the author developed a 39-item survey instrument and administered it to 314 preservice teachers in undergraduate…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Knowledge Level, Investment, Money Management
Thriving in Academia: Building a Career at a Teaching-Focused Institution
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Ansburg, Pamela I.; Basham, Mark E.; Gurung, Regan Areesesh Raj – APA Books, 2021
Veteran professors synthesize their combined 60+ years of expertise at primarily undergraduate, teaching-focused universities into easy-to-follow advice for graduate students and current faculty seeking to build thriving careers at similar institutions. Writing in a friendly tone that includes their personal reflections, the authors guide readers…
Descriptors: Career Development, College Instruction, College Faculty, Job Application
The Faculty Factor: Reassessing the American Academy in a Turbulent Era
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Finkelstein, Martin J.; Conley, Valerie Martin; Schuster, Jack H. – Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016
Over the past 70 years, the American university has become the global gold standard of excellence in research and graduate education. The unprecedented surge of federal research support of the post-World War II American university paralleled the steady strengthening of the American academic profession itself, which managed to attract the best and…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Educational Change, Global Approach, Comparative Education
Teaching, Learning and Education in Late Modernity: The Selected Works of Peter Jarvis. World Library of Educationalists
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Jarvis, Peter – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
Professor Peter Jarvis has spent over 30 years researching, thinking and writing about some of the key and enduring issues in education. He has contributed well over 30 books and 200 papers and chapters in books on learning theory, adult education and learning, continuing professional education, nurse education, primary school education, distance…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learning Theories, Distance Education, Continuing Education
Annual Report of the Secretary of the Interior for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1895. In Five Volumes. Volume V -- In Two Parts. Part 1 [Report of the Commissioner of Education]
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United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1896
This is the Report of the Commissioner of Education, part of the Annual Report of the Secretary of the Interior for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1895. The Bureau of Education report is contained within volume five, which is in two parts. Part one contains: (1) The Commissioner of Education's Introduction; (2) Statistics of State Common-School…
Descriptors: Statistical Data, Public Schools, Urban Schools, Secondary Schools