This article is an interview with Carla Shalaby, coordinator of social justice initiatives and community internships at the University of Michigan, who advocates for a more humanizing approach to student discipline. Her research focuses on the critical role that students and teachers play in the ongoing struggle for justice. She is the author of…

Discusses the lack of discipline which allows large numbers of students to stay in the hallways rather than attend classes at Chicago's all Black Westside High School. Suggests that the administration does not enforce teacher discipline and that teachers, thus, do not fulfill their own duty to control students. (GC)

Explores 60 children's perceptions of their teachers and reveals those areas in which students approved and disapproved of various teaching methods. Issues such as repetition of subject matter, and the balance between individual and group work were also explored. (Author/BSR)

Teachers who desire the academic freedom to discuss all sides of an issue are often branded as disloyal, communistic, or evil. But it is those who propose thought control and oppose total access to knowledge, not teachers advocating their students' right to know, who are America's actual subversives. (Author/SJL)

A four-phase process for dismissing unsatisfactory teachers is described: (1) early diagnosis of unsatisfactory performance; (2) initiating a 12- to 14-week plan for improvement of performance; (3) notification of corrective action (list deficiencies, provide assistance, and set a deadline); and (4) implementing termination hearings when all else…

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…

This paper presents an analysis of the "adjacent curriculum," a term defined as that knowledge that is organizational in origin and that is transmitted to the organization's members for the purpose of maintaining the organization as an abstract but functional entity. This "curriculum" consists of such material as conduct codes, evaluation forms,…

In 1976 the Edmonton (Alberta) Public School Board resolved to designate administrative positions on a three-year term. The Edmonton public school local of the Alberta Teachers' Association attempted to prevent the implementation of the new policy. After this attempt was unsuccessful, six employees of the school board who accepted term…

The peer review system for evaluating schools (the "Toledo Plan") is gaining favor among teachers in other school systems. Schools are generally reluctant to dismiss incompetent teachers because of documentation complexities, but incompetent teachers should nevertheless be weeded out. (TE)

Incompetent teachers must be identified and assisted, and if they fail to improve, they must be dismissed. An eight-point strategy for school district administrators to use in identifying and assisting less competent teachers is presented. (RM)

This book analyzes the consequences of 260 case decisions in New York State in which tenured teachers have been charged with misconduct or incompetence. Four sections explain the standards used in making these determinations for the purpose of establishing the meaning and measurement of good teaching, the conception of teachers as role models, and…

Teachers are increasingly being awarded court cases for infringement on their civil rights by boards of education. (LH)

The sequence of events and implications of the disciplinary dismissal of three faculty members of Philander Smith College are discussed with relation to the AAUP's 1940 Statement of Principles. It is concluded that faculty rights were violated by the administration and governing board. (MSE)

The denial of tenure to and dismissal of an assistant professor at Nichols College are considered. It is concluded that he was denied due process according to the AAUP's 1940 Statement of Principles. No issue of academic freedom was raised by the decision; however, the administration's action is criticized. (MSE)

Dismissing common metaphors for the school such as the "knowledge factory" or the "cure for the disease of ignorance," the author makes preliminary observations leading toward some sort of new metaphor that would better describe the school as a collection of autonomous and self-regulated individuals. He presents what he calls four "notions" that…