In "Are Texas Teacher Retirement Benefits Adequate?," authors Chad Aldeman and Anthony Randazzo analyze the Teachers' Retirement System (TRS) of Texas and find it is not serving all of its members well. Most members will leave their teaching service in Texas with inadequate retirement benefits, and the unfunded liabilities the system has…

In the era of No Child Left Behind, principals are increasingly held accountable for student performance. But are teacher labor agreements giving them enough flexibility to manage effectively? This study answers this question and others. It examines how much flexibility school leaders enjoy on key dimensions of management in America's fifty…

Tollowing a brief description of the purposes of tenure, the policy adopted by the College of the Mainland (Texas) in July 1967 was presented. The policy outlines: who is eligible to receive tenure, the rights of those who have received tenure, and the criteria and procedure used by the president for recommending tenure. (MB)