Teacher salaries are the single most costly item in every state's education budget. This report provides both a historical overview and recent statistics on trends in teacher salaries. The report describes the status of teacher salaries in the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) states, defines "average" teacher salary, and…

Pensions are an important but comparatively unexamined component of human resource policies in education. In an increasingly competitive world where employees are more mobile than ever, pension policies that were designed in the last century may be out of step with the needs of both individuals and schools. This background paper aims to foster…

This chapter explores community college faculty satisfaction related to four specific variables.

In the midst of the global recession, how have national governments viewed the role of higher education in their evolving strategies for economic recovery? Demand for higher education generally goes up during economic downturns. Which nations have proactively protected funding for their universities and colleges to help maintain access, to help…

This edition of "Projections of Education Statistics" provides projections for key education statistics, including enrollment, graduates, degrees conferred, teachers, and expenditures in elementary and secondary schools. Included are national data on enrollment and graduates for the past 15 years and projections to the year 2017, as well…

In the 1990s at Appalachian State University, as at many other colleges and universities, the balance shifted in the writing program. Before then, English composition courses had been taught by tenure-track faculty members, but now most composition courses are taught by non-tenure-track faculty members. In this article, the authors describe how…

Reports of a recruitment and retention crisis amongst teachers in England led the government to develop a Workforce Remodelling strategy for schools. This involved change at both a legislative level, removing administrative tasks from teachers and ensuring all teaching staff had 10% off-timetable for planning, preparation and assessment (PPA)…

Assesses the argument that teachers' work careers are staged by gender-specific career models. Data for individuals who taught in 1965 and/or 1970 demonstrate labor force demographics and individual career patterns predicted by this argument. Research on teachers' career patterns is needed to assess this argument further. (Author/CH)

The first academic sabbatical was introduced at Harvard in 1880. In recent years, commercial enterprises have also identified workplace benefit programs as "sabbaticals." Benshoff and Spruill (2002), whose own study investigated the success of sabbaticals for counseling professors, also indicate an increased interest in the sabbatical's potential…

In 1999, most deans of nursing schools that belonged to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing reported that they did not have a faculty shortage. By 2005, however, 75 percent of U.S. nursing schools cited faculty shortages as the major reason for denying admission to qualified students. The average age of nurse educators holding PhDs is…

State and federal accountability systems are pressuring public schools to improve the performance of low-achieving students. To respond, schools must be able to recruit and retain high-quality teachers, strengthen curricula, and take other steps to provide struggling students with the help they need. But such efforts are expensive and, as the…

The passage in 1974 of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (The Buckley Amendment) created concern throughout the education profession. The purpose of the Buckley Amendment was to: (1) assure parents and students access to education records; (2) protect the individual's right to privacy by limiting transferability of their records…

South Carolina school districts have been testing three different teacher incentive program models: the campus/individual model, the bonus model, and the career ladder model. All have problems and limited effectiveness. The solution will be a program based on rewarding merit rather than providing teacher incentives. (MD)

A survey of master's degree graduates in ESL from the University of Hawaii showed that a majority of first and current positions were in ESL teaching. Other positions included administration, materials preparation, and curriculum design. Variables significant in determining the respondents' current salaries are noted. (SL)

To facilitate teacher mobility in the Northeast, barriers to interstate movement must be lessened. Presently, teachers are restricted from transferring pension assets across state lines; they can lose up to 40 percent of their retirement benefits, can usually transfer only part of their years of service, and may be financially unable to "buy…