This document contains the results of California court decisions in litigation involving the status, or status and pay of part-time faculty in California community colleges. The information in the report was obtained by asking each California community college president and district superintendent to report whether their college or district was,…

This paper provides a brief overview of collective bargaining in public education in Indiana in 1975, the second year that school boards and teachers operated under a collective bargaining law. The authors analyze major factors and apparent trends related to bargaining and impasse issues, mediation and fact-finding practices, teacher strikes, and…

Discusses historical and economic reasons for the gender segregation of the teaching profession. Analyzes data on teacher employment in the United States from 1850-88. Argues that the percentage of women teachers was highest in those States and counties where teaching was formalized and the female-male salary ratio was relatively low. (KH)

This report discusses findings on the shortage of qualified teachers for students with disabilities. Data from the 1990-91 Schools and Staffing Survey and the 1992 Teacher Followup Survey of the National Center for Education Statistics, along with annual data reported by the Office of Special Education Programs and other data collected by the…

Using data from Rhode Island, this study investigated the extent to which teacher unions have won control gains, but not economic gains, at the bargaining table. (Author/PN)

A study sought to determine the strategies, procedures, and content that each state is using in preservice programs for beginning trade and industrial teachers. Fifteen states reported that official policy required a new teacher workshop. (LRA)

Analyzes changes in the representation of Black teachers in 176 urban school districts between 1968 and 1986. Concludes that northern districts have been moving toward greater representation of Blacks over the past 20 years at a rate significantly faster than the southern districts. (FMW)

An exploratory methodology is presented for analyzing teacher survival data and detecting/documenting involuntary layoffs as an influence on teacher employment. Employment data for over 14,000 teachers hired between 1969 and 1981 in St. Louis (Missouri) illustrate that mandated staff reductions were key factors in teacher employment trends. (TJH)

A survey of 158 rural special education teachers found that 57% expected to be in the same position in 5 years. A predictive model developed through logistic regression analysis suggested that administrative support and job requirements played important roles in teachers' five-year plans. (Author/DB)

This is the 12th annual report on conditions affecting the Racine Unified School District (RUSD). This year, the analysis again focuses on the long-term historical trends in RUSD. The analysis compares RUSD data to data of nine peer school districts as well as statewide data. The peer districts are defined as those Wisconsin districts with…

The nature and characteristics of part-time faculty members in the state of Ohio were studied, based on a survey of 22 institutions, including four-year public and private and two-year or community colleges. Questionnaire responses were analyzed from 1,590 part-time faculty members and 335 administrators. Case studies also were conducted to obtain…

An increasing proportion of Canadian teachers is employed part-time. In order to explore some of the day-to-day realities of part-time teaching and some of the politics and ideologies giving rise to those realities, this study described and compared the enactment of three types of "reduced-work" employment policies for teachers in an…

Traditionally, teacher compensation has been viewed in isolation from other components of organizational reform. This paper examines changes in dominant models of schooling over time using an organizational lens. The six models include scientific management, humanistic/specialization, effective schools, content-driven, high standards/high…

A survey of 148 rural independent, multigrade elementary school districts in Montana examined how districts compensate their teachers and whether or not that compensation has kept pace with larger school districts. The results indicate that rural school teachers in many cases work for less money than any other group of teachers in the state. Only…

This report provides an analysis of faculty salaries in the University of California and California State University systems. The report contains the parity percentages obtained through analysis of the data submitted to the University and State University by their respective groups of comparison institutions; estimated faculty salary parity…