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Thomas, Jeffrey – Humanities, 1993
Reports on a U.S. Department of Education study of the employment and salary status of 1989-90 bachelor's degree recipients. Finds that college graduates with humanities and history majors are not faring as well as their counterparts in other fields as they enter the labor force. Includes two figures and one table comparing humanities graduates…
Descriptors: Emerging Occupations, Higher Education, History, Humanities
Zicht, Barbara, Ed.; And Others – Elementary Economist, 1981
Providing teacher background on the concepts of wages and profits, paying particular attention to how elementary children experience and learn these concepts, this document presents 3 teaching units. The grade K-2 unit, "A Job Well Done," provides activities which focus on different types of jobs and the intrinsic and extrinsic rewards…
Descriptors: Activity Units, Concept Teaching, Economics Education, Elementary Education
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Monk, David H.; Jacobson, Stephen L. – Journal of Education Finance, 1985
Accompanied by several charts and tables, this study examines differential salary increments for veteran and novice teachers in 43 New York State school districts. Awarding larger percentage increments to experienced rather than to beginning employees is less common in comparable professions and may discourage new teaching recruits. Includes 17…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, Salaries
Center for the Child Care Workforce, Washington, DC. – 2000
The Center for the Child Care Workforce (formerly the Child Care Employee Project), has provided leadership for a nationwide grassroots effort called the Worthy Wage Campaign, an activist initiative to increase public awareness and to press for a public investment of child care funds directly targeted to improving child care jobs. This handbook…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Change Strategies, Child Caregivers, Compensation (Remuneration)
Nelson, Russell C.; Lamberson, Marcia M. – Engineering Education, 1989
Provided is information on stipends from the last 3 surveys for 12 engineering disciplines. Notes that in 1987-88 the highest GTA and GRA stipends were awarded in the same field; materials science/metallurgical engineering. (MVL)
Descriptors: College Science, Engineering, Engineering Education, Graduate Students
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McElrath, Karen – Journal of Higher Education, 1992
A survey of 314 male and female faculty in criminology and sociology found that faculty women are more likely than men to leave academic positions, and women who interrupt careers commonly do so for a job-seeking spouse. Women experience significant losses in tenure and earnings as a result of career disruptions. (MSE)
Descriptors: Career Change, Career Development, College Faculty, Criminology
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Blake, Norv – Social Education, 1990
Discusses an innovative approach to introduce high school students to the subject of wage differentials between men and women. The lesson involves giving the boys in class 67 percent of their true grade on an examination. The discussion that follows is designed to create empathy and the knowledge that injustice is not easily solved. (GG)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Comparable Worth, Economics, Females
Moses, Duane R. – 1990
This teacher's guide was developed to assist business instructors using Dac Easy Accounting Payroll Version 3.0 edition software in their accounting programs. The module contains assignment sheets and job sheets designed to enable students to master competencies identified in the area of automated accounting--payroll. Basic accounting skills are…
Descriptors: Accounting, Bookkeeping, Business Education, Competence
Educational Research Service, Arlington, VA. – 1984
The Composite Indicator of Changes (CIC) in average salaries and wages paid by public school systems is designed to reflect overall changes, to compare salary trends among various categories of personnel, and to analyze salary trends in an individual school system and among groups of school systems. Annual updates of the CIC are computed from data…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Administrators, Comparative Analysis, Cost Effectiveness
Thuy, Vuong G. – 1993
In response to the need for instructional materials to help limited-English-proficient Cambodian-speaking adults become self-sufficient in American society, 10 lessons in job search and related skill areas are presented. Each lesson begins with a teacher's guide, which gives an overview of the text, notes on vocabulary and phrases, and a number of…
Descriptors: Adults, Advertising, Banking, Business Communication
Thuy, Vuong G. – 1993
In response to the need for instructional materials to help limited-English-proficient Laotian-speaking adults become self-sufficient in American society, ten lessons in job search and related skill areas are presented. Each lesson begins with a teacher's guide, which gives an overview of the text, notes on vocabulary and phrases, and a number of…
Descriptors: Adults, Advertising, Banking, Business Communication
Thuy, Vuong G. – 1993
In response to the need for instructional materials to help limited-English-proficient Vietnamese-speaking adults become self-sufficient in American society, ten lessons in job search and related skill areas are presented. Each lesson begins with a teacher's guide, which gives an overview of the text, notes on vocabulary and phrases, and a number…
Descriptors: Adults, Advertising, Banking, Business Communication
Oppliger, Jurg – 1997
This book presents step-by-step guidelines to getting a job. The following are among the topics discussed in the book's 13 chapters: (1) assessing one's salable skills (identifying likes and dislikes, determining strong and weak points, assessing skills and knowledge, identifying areas for improvement); (2) identifying one's ideal job (describing…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Education, Career Planning, Check Lists