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Ravitch, Diane – Teacher Educator, 2014
This article address the falsehoods regarding No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top legislation, the educational reformers' stance that schools are failing, the privatization movement in education, and the issues of technology in the schools. The importance of poverty is emphasized, although policymakers ignore it and advocate school choice as…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Misconceptions, Federal Legislation, Public Education
Neugebauer, Roger – Exchange: The Early Childhood Leaders' Magazine Since 1978, 2009
In the September/October issue the author analyzed trends in business and society and identified three pillars of the new economy. After that article was published, readers were asked to share their views on what these changes mean for the world of early childhood. In this article, the author summarizes respondent's views. [For Part 1, see…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Children, Child Care, Teaching (Occupation)
Acemoglu, Daron; Autor, David – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2010
A central organizing framework of the voluminous recent literature studying changes in the returns to skills and the evolution of earnings inequality is what we refer to as the canonical model, which elegantly and powerfully operationalizes the supply and demand for skills by assuming two distinct skill groups that perform two different and…
Descriptors: Employment, Salary Wage Differentials, Skills, Supply and Demand
Templeton, Peter; McMahon, Elaine; Wilkinson, Jane; Brook, Ruth – Adults Learning, 2010
Adult education will have an important role to play in addressing the challenges facing the world in the wake of the Copenhagen climate change talks. What can providers do to make a difference--and what is already being done? In this article, the authors give their perspectives.
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Activism, Citizen Participation, Climate
Gruenert, Steve W.; McDaniel, Terry M. – School Administrator, 2009
It would be difficult to imagine any first-year teacher had aspirations of becoming a weak teacher. Most individuals hired as teachers have the ability to do a good job and want to do a good job. So how is it that some become ineffective? The authors contend that school leaders make them that way. Consider this preposterous notion: School leaders…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Professional Development, Teacher Administrator Relationship, Teaching (Occupation)
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Lonergan, David – Community & Junior College Libraries, 2009
People use the words "profession" and "professional" in a multitude of ways. This article provides an extensive discussion about the idea of "profession." The author discusses how librarianship stacks up against the established professions and explores whether librarianship is considered as a profession. The author argues that librarianship is not…
Descriptors: Librarians, Library Education, Graduate Study, Library Science
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Maranto, Robert; Van Raemdonck, Dirk C. – Journal of School Choice, 2011
Many people view subgovernments such as the "military-industrial complex" as largely self-governing and budget maximizing. Yet, as defense cutbacks in the 1970s and 1990s show, such networks do not maintain their privileged status indefinitely. In similar fashion, some claim public education is too autonomous and too focused on budget…
Descriptors: Public Education, Politics of Education, Administrative Organization, Power Structure
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Bingham, Charles W. – Studies in Philosophy and Education, 2008
This article explores Derrida's claim that teaching is a deconstructive process. In order to explore this claim, the Derridean concept of "erasure" is explored. Using the concept of erasure, this article examines two important aspects of teaching: the name that teachers establish for themselves, and, teaching against social power from a Derridean…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Reputation, Power Structure, Resistance (Psychology)
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Precey, Robin – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2008
This article argues that education leaders in this country, and indeed leaders of other public services, are facing life-changing decisions. The way ahead is full of possibilities and pitfalls. The article employs the metaphor of a railway journey to explore these. In particular it considers the implications for leaders in terms of how they…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Leadership, Public Service Occupations, Public Service
Zingales, Luigi – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2012
Economists may be biased in ways that are not apparent to many. A widely espoused theory in economics is that regulators' decisions often become biased in favor of the industries they regulate; to use economic jargon, they become "captured." Economic incentives encourage even the best-intentioned regulators to cater to the interests of the…
Descriptors: Economics, Professional Occupations, Professional Identity, Bias
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Houston, W. Robert – Action in Teacher Education, 2008
It has been generally accepted that teaching does not meet the criteria of a profession, at least as exemplified by the more mature professions of medicine and law (Abbott, 1988; Darling-Hammond & Youngs, 2002; Etzioni, 1969; Howsam, Corrigan, Denemark, & Nash, 1976). Teaching is most often referred to as a semiprofession; Myers's (2008 [this…
Descriptors: Professional Occupations, Definitions, Classification, Reports
Hess, Frederick M. – American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 2009
"Human capital" is quickly becoming the new site-based management, a popular strategy from the 1980s and 1990s that sought to increase autonomy in schools and spread decision making more widely. While few are sure what human capital means, everyone craves it, has a model to deliver it, and is quick to tout its restorative powers. It is…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Occupational Information, Human Capital, Strategic Planning
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Hurley, Chuck – College and University, 2009
A number of colleges and universities are aggressively recruiting professionals from outside academe for various administrative roles. Many of these professionals come to campuses from substantial corporate careers, with excellent aptitude for the job at hand, and are generally wonderful additions to the staffs. The test often faced as managers is…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Managerial Occupations, College Administration, Recruitment
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Baesler, E. James – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2009
This autoethnographic account describes interconnections among the author's personal prayer life, teaching, and research. The contextual frame for the story includes episodes and observations from a twelve-year span, encompassing postacademic tenure and promotion to the present. The author's prayer is that others might resonate with parts of this…
Descriptors: Religion, Ethnography, Autobiographies, Spiritual Development
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Lyon, Alexandra; Bell, Michael; Croll, Nora Swan; Jackson, Randall; Gratton, Claudio – Rural Sociology, 2010
Justifiably concerned about power dynamics between researchers and participants in participatory research, much of the literature proposes guidelines for including participant voices at every step of the research process. We find these guidelines insufficient for dealing with constraints set up by the social organizational structures in which…
Descriptors: Participatory Research, Guidelines, Researchers, Research Methodology
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