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Cicely Roxanne Bingener – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Teachers' work is inherently political at both the interpersonal and structural levels. Yet, now, many teachers are under state-sanctioned and local pressure to be apolitical. Moreover, many teachers are citing feelings of political attack as a significant driver in their decisions to stay or leave the teaching profession, even as the US faces…
Descriptors: Urban Areas, Urban Teaching, Urban Schools, Economically Disadvantaged
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Ghosn, Emma; Akkary, Rima Karami – Research in Educational Administration & Leadership, 2020
Teacher unions worldwide are being criticized for disregarding their responsibility as professionals towards education and students. Critics have claimed that teacher unions tend to protect incompetent teachers, place their own needs and interests above their students, and continuously demand for financial increases even when there is more urgency…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public School Teachers, Unions, Neoliberalism
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Erdag, Coskun; Karadag, Engin – Educational Administration: Theory & Practice, 2018
To meet the demands of knowledge economy, educational systems worldwide have developed many accountability mechanisms to hold the schools responsible for a standardized teaching and account-giving for the results. Henceforth, this research seeks to portray the accountability pressures on schools and school responses, and their variations between…
Descriptors: Accountability, Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, School Administration
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Küçüksüleymanoglu, Rüyam; Terzioglu, Cem – Educational Research and Reviews, 2017
Any possible difference to occur in the subsystems or dimensions of the organization or the interrelations between them is called organizational change. Organizational change means an organization's adapting a new way of thinking or an action. In this sense, change is such a comprehensible term that includes all events and phenomena related to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Educational Change
Chapman, Sidney L. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Over the past 3 years, teacher union membership has significantly decreased in the state of Georgia. This decrease in union membership is troubling, as previous research has shown that union membership is positively connected to teacher satisfaction and, in turn, to student success. The purpose of this qualitative case study was to determine why…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Unions, Union Members, Group Membership
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Stuit, David A.; Smith, Thomas M. – Economics of Education Review, 2012
This study uses national survey data to examine why charter school teachers are more likely to turnover than their traditional public school counterparts. We test whether the turnover gap is explained by different distributions of factors that are empirically and theoretically linked to turnover risk. We find that the turnover rate of charter…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Public School Teachers, Teacher Persistence, Unions
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Gumus, Murat; Hamarat, Bahattin; Colak, Ertugrul; Duran, Erol – Career Development International, 2012
Purpose: This paper aims to explore the effects of two work related identification (occupational and organizational) of school teachers on intention to early retirement (withdrawal) and satisfaction with the occupation and satisfaction with the school. It also seeks the influence of perceived external prestige on withdrawal and satisfaction.…
Descriptors: Teacher Retirement, Job Satisfaction, Reputation, Intention
Lips, Dan – Heritage Foundation, 2010
Across the United States, policymakers are increasingly adopting education policies that give families the power to choose their children's schools. Nonetheless, the idea of providing school vouchers to allow children to attend private schools remains controversial. For instance, congressional leaders and the Obama Administration have tried to end…
Descriptors: Private Schools, School Choice, Foreign Countries, Educational Vouchers
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Grossman, Gary M.; Onkol, Pinar E.; Sands, Margaret – International Journal of Educational Development, 2007
Educational development is one way through which Turkey enhances progress towards its social goals and prepares itself for European Union membership. A major effort to upgrade the Turkish educational system was made through a multi-phased comprehensive reform of the sector introduced during the 1990s. One part of this reform, perhaps most crucial…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Curriculum Development, Union Members, Unions
Boulter, William F.; And Others – 1981
The study reported in this paper sought to identify reasons why teachers do or do not join unions. In addition, the study sought to disclose relationships between certain demographic characteristics and those reasons. The National Education Association/American Federation of Teachers (NEA/AFT) Membership Questionnaire, a Likert-type attitudinal…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Teacher Associations, Teacher Attitudes, Union Members
Angell, George W. – 1974
This report reviews briefly some advantages and disadvantages of collective bargaining in higher education. Advantages discussed include: efficiency, equality of power, legal force, impasse resolution, communication, understanding the institution, resolution of individual problems, definition of policy, rights guarantee, faculty compensation,…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Collective Bargaining, College Faculty, Colleges
Rist, Marilee C. – American School Board Journal, 1983
Teachers endorse merit pay, but many are opposed to bonus pay to individuals teaching in subject areas where teacher shortages exist. Bonus plans are also opposed by teacher unions. A national survey found that the differences between teachers' attitudes relate to the number of years teaching, union membership, and tenure status. (MD)
Descriptors: Courses, Elementary Secondary Education, National Surveys, Premium Pay
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Kaboolian, Linda – Education Next, 2006
According to Joe A. Stone of the University of Oregon, average students do better in classrooms with unionized teachers, but less able and more able students do not. While this particular assumption lacks empirical clarity, many administrators and school board members feel that it would be much easier to reform public education if teacher unions…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Boards of Education, Union Members, Unions
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Nagi, Mostafa H.; Pugh, Meredith D. – Education and Urban Society, 1973
Investigates the attitudes and values among secondary school teachers choosing to join union organizations, hypothesizing that status inconsistency among the dimensions of prestige and income is an important motive for militant behavior among secondary teachers. (Author/JM)
Descriptors: Political Attitudes, Social Attitudes, Socioeconomic Status, Status Need
Lynn, Joseph F.; Gray, James F. – Cath High Sch Quart, 1969
Presented at the 1969 NCEA Convention.
Descriptors: Catholic Educators, Educational Policy, Employer Employee Relationship, Labor Relations
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