In recent years, states have sought to increase accountability for public school teachers by implementing a package of reforms centered on high-stakes evaluation systems. We examine the effect of these reforms on the supply and quality of new teachers. Leveraging variation across states and time, we find that accountability reforms reduced the…

Salaries have increased substantially since 1967-68. However, the value of these increases has been almost entirely neutralized in many cases and was reversed by inflation in almost half of the states. (Author/IRT)

This report presents selected findings from the school district data file of the 2007-08 Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS). SASS is a nationally representative sample survey of public, private, and Bureau of Indian Education-funded (BIE) K-12 schools, principals, and teachers in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. The public school sample…

This report presents findings of the 16th annual survey of faculty salaries at 357 public four-year colleges and universities. It reports data by rank (from instructor through full professor) for 55 disciplines. For the current year the report notes an average annual increase in salaries of 6.14 percent. In addition, the report provides examples…

This article discusses factors which influence teacher salaries: collective bargaining; regional differences; teacher supply and demand; the notion of teaching as a "woman's profession," public opinion, and merit pay schemes. Tables of high, low, and representative 1978-79 teacher salary scales from around the nation are included. (SJL)

This reference document supports the leadership of locals and state federations in collective bargaining, in designing salary comparisons, and in developing policy. Data are drawn from several sources to more fully describe the American Federation of Teachers' (AFT) largest locals and to describe the nation's largest school districts. Section 1…

A recent report indicates that at public colleges and universities, business and management professors receive the highest salaries. At private institutions, engineering faculty remain the highest paid. Lowest-paid faculty remain the same. Collective bargaining affected pay raises. Private and public institution average salaries are tabulated, by…

A study was conducted to compare the faculty personnel policies of the nine City Colleges of Chicago with those of 31 selected urban community colleges across the country having enrollments of not less than 5,000. Areas examined included faculty salaries, overload compensation, compensation for faculty who substitute for absent faculty, nature of…

This summary of the results of a national survey of 1,146 randomly selected school systems includes data on salaries and salary increases for school administrators (primarily principals) and teachers. A review of principals' contracts includes examples of health benefits, auto insurance, and other clauses. (Author/DS)

Presents highlights from an Educational Research Service, Inc., survey of salaries and benefits paid professional personnel in the schools. (IRT)

A national survey has found little change in faculty salary differentials among disciplines. For the second year, however, public institutions' salary growth outpaced private institutions'. Other trends include "compression" of salaries among faculty ranks within a field and higher salaries for faculty with union contracts. (MSE)

Teacher salaries across the country were examined to determine whether collective bargaining is a prime determinant of the rate of increase in teacher salaries. It is suggested that many teachers join a union and seek collective bargaining in order to achieve higher pay. The percentage change in primary and secondary teacher salaries was compared…

Recent data about faculty salaries, promotion, tenure rates, and merit pay are examined to shed new light on the broad influence of unionism in U.S. faculty compensation patterns. A major question posed is whether or not incidence of merit pay declines with the spread of unionism. (MSE)

This almanac contains seven articles on current issues in higher education and a report on current faculty salaries. Part 1 includes the following articles: (1) "Faculty Salaries, 1993-94" (John B. Lee), which tracks national and state salary trends; (2) "Workload and Productivity: Case Studies" (Henry L. Allen), which presents…

The question of whether two-year colleges with and without faculty unions differ in terms of selected institutional characteristics was investigated. Attention was directed to expenditures spent on instruction, the percentage of revenue obtained from various sources, the educational costs per full-time equivalent student, the faculty-student…