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Direct linkHansen, Janet – National Center on Performance Incentives, 2009
Like most other state and local government employees, teachers participate primarily in defined benefit pension plans whose benefits are based on final average salaries and length of service. Such pensions have been replaced in many private sector firms by defined contribution pensions. A number of questions have arisen about the feasibility and…
Descriptors: Private Sector, Teacher Retirement, Government Employees, Teacher Shortage
Hess, Frederick M.; Squire, Juliet P. – National Center on Performance Incentives, 2009
The tension at the heart of pension politics is the incentive to address today's claimants and focus on the here-and-now at the expense of long-term concerns and more dispersed constituencies. In the private sector, rules and regulations seek to tame corner-cutting and short-sighted behavior. In the public sector, the primary safeguard is the…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Retirement, Public Officials, Labor Market
Peer reviewedMonahan, Amy B. – National Center on Performance Incentives, 2009
There is significant interest in reforming retirement plans for public school employees, particularly in light of current market conditions. This paper presents an overview of the various types of state regulation of public pension plans that affect possibilities for reform. Several states have legal protections that effectively prevent a state…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Retirement, State Regulation, Retirement Benefits
Download full textYates, Lyn – 1998
This essay discusses the effects of feminism on educational policy in Australia and the role of feminist educators in developing and implementing the feminist agenda. It also examines the conditions framing Australian feminist work in education. The essay reviews the gains that girls and women have made in educational attainment and employment, as…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Educational Attitudes, Educational Policy, Equal Education
International Labour Office, Geneva (Switzerland). – 1999
Historically, the roles of the public and private sectors in VET have been characterized by the following broad stages: (1) unstructured and unregulated VET; (2) supply-driven, state dominated VET; and (3) market-driven VET. More recently, the combined forces of globalization, technological change, and liberalization of markets have forced…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Cooperative Planning, Economic Factors, Educational Administration
Lasonen, Johanna L. – 1999
The increasing emphasis on entrepreneurship and self-employment training in vocational education and training (VET) worldwide was examined. Special attention was paid to the following themes: (1) the content and various concepts of entrepreneurship, including the distinction between external and internal entrepreneurship; (2) trends in…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adjustment (to Environment), Business Education, Change Strategies
