This paper examines the grammar of schooling and educational innovations that were being promulgated transnationally in the 1920s and 1930s. First, the paper explores how some elements of the grammar of schooling such as age grading, year-long courses of study and annual employment contracts for teachers were mediated by local circumstances in…

THE OBJECTIVES WERE TO DESCRIBE THE PATTERN OF JOB SEQUENCES THAT TYPIFY A CAREER IN EDUCATION AND TO DETERMINE THE TYPES OF PRESSURES, SATISFACTIONS, AND FRUSTRATIONS THAT LEAD TEACHERS TO CONTINUE IN EDUCATION OR SEEK OTHER POSITIONS. SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHERS EMPLOYED IN URBAN CENTERS OF CENTRAL NEW YORK WERE INTERVIEWED. THEY INCLUDED TEACHERS…

The current structure of schools allows teachers to obtain a relatively high degree of personal satisfaction from the work of teaching itself. However, collective bargaining must be concerned almost exclusively with pressing for higher salaries and related issues. With each round of bargaining, higher teacher salaries will be gradually traded off…

Implications for teacher hiring practices are drawn from a study comparing male and female elementary school teachers on two dimensions: tendency to establish control in a classroom and need for personal power. (CW)

The purpose of this study was to ascertain whether or not the perceived needs for assistance are different at the following times during an individual's career as a vocational agriculture teacher: completion of the professional semester, early during the first year of teaching, and early during the second year of teaching. (SSH)

As the age of the population continues to increase, faculty retirement issues are becoming more central to campus-level planning and management. Academic planners and senior administrators recognize that there are positive, negative, and unintended consequences associated with various retirement programs and policies, whether they are early…

Discusses the role of the sabbatical leave in the development, satisfaction, and productivity of faculty in postsecondary institutions. Concludes that faculty members benefit from and are satisfied with their sabbatical leave experiences. Also notes benefits to the home institution, including increased productivity, improved programs, strengthened…

Through the use of questionnaires, this study examines the levels of satisfaction of teachers in Alberta with aspects of their conditions of employment. Relationships between these satisfaction levels and other variables including age, sex, and experience were also examined. Free responses were solicited to provide information relevant to…

Describes the strategies and tactics that made the author's search for a tenure-track job in English a success. Describes the tenure-track position at precisely the kind of institution where faculty members were supposedly not open to the kind of work he does: the English Department at Drew University, essentially a small liberal arts college in…

The 31st annual national survey conducted a census of the field of public school agricultural education to determine the situation regarding the supply and demand of teachers in the United States in 1995. Supply data came from teacher education programs, graduates, and placements. Demand data came from numbers of teachers, numbers of replacements…

Argues that the rhetoric of survival or surrender was developed by many administrators and teachers during the 1960's. The message was that most of the responsibility for the student's success or failure lay with something or somebody other than the student, and the result was an atmosphere of anti-intellectualism and irresponsibility in…

A poem expressing the author's perceptions and feelings about the rhetoric of survival or surrender developed during the 1960's by many administrators and teachers, encouraging students to think that the cause of their success or failure lies in the institution or something or somebody other than the student. (Author/JM)

Data from 82 questionnaires returned by vocational agriculture teachers and administrators in Montana provided information on: summer employment status, importance of summer program to overall program, planning and accountability, time spent on summer activities, and perceptions of program activities. Six recommendations were formulated as a…

The turnover rate for private school teachers may rise as young teachers become dissatisfied with low salaries, limited social life, high demands, and teaching. Private schools can retain teachers by offering incentives such as varied responsibilities, time for professional development, adequate guidance and evaluation, and fringe benefits. (SB)

Most teachers are satisfied with most aspects of their jobs. Results from a number of national surveys on teacher satisfaction are presented. Specific aspects of job satisfaction discussed are salaries, status, working conditions, and employment outlook. (IAH)