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Predicting Secondary Agriculture Teachers' Job Stress from Selected Personal, Family, and Work-Related Characteristics
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Torres, Robert M.; Lambert, Misty D.; Lawver, Rebecca G. – Career and Technical Education Research, 2010
The study sought to describe the characteristics and explain the current level of job stress among secondary agriculture teachers. The sample consisted of 370 secondary agriculture teachers. Data were collected using the Job Stress Survey (Spielberger & Vagg, 1999). From the findings it was concluded that the average secondary agriculture teacher…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Professional Associations, Community Organizations, Beginning Teachers
The Vanishing Voter and the Crisis in American Democracy; New Strategies for Reversing the Decline in Voter Participation.
People for the American Way, Washington, DC. – 1988
A critical national problem facing the United States is the steady decline in voting of the citizenry. Surveys of the 44 largest public school systems from across the country and of 100 corporations from the Fortune 500 group as well as individual interviews and roundtable discussions with teachers, executives, members of Congress, local and state…
Descriptors: Activism, Business Responsibility, Citizenship Education, Community Organizations
Lincoln Park Zoo & Brookfield Zoo Educators Study
Lincoln Park Zoological Society, Chicago, IL. – 1992
It is important to understand the ways in which zoos can serve as a resource in the development of classroom teachers, parents, and community organization staff members as environmental educators. This project consists of three distinct, but related investigations of zoo use by different groups of educators. The project methodology included…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Child Development, Community Organizations, Educational Resources