The Scanlon Plan -- an industrial model -- has three essential aspects: group incentives for all employees in the organization; a negotiated, objective basis for distribution of incentives; and a formal system by which employees participate in decisions about management of the organization. (Author/JF)

Slowdown in enrollments and increasing costs force higher education institutions to reexamine tenure policies. (PG)

A teacher need not prove he is competent to keep his job, but a school board must prove he is incompetent in order to get rid of him. (Author)

This article outlines one procedure that can be used for computing projected salary costs. (Author)

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Condensed by author from his study, The Education, Sources and Recruitment of Wisconsin Vocational-Technical Teachers. Univeristy of Wisconsin, 1969.

Discusses teacher tenure through the following elements: common school tenure and university tenure, tenure and due process, teacher evaluation, rights of the teacher, due process for the probationary teacher, tenureless systems, and changes in tenure systems. (CT)

The audiovisual portfolio helps beginning teachers demonstrate qualities that might not show up in a traditional job interview. Included in the portfolio are a student teaching notebook, a slide narrative presentation, audiocassette tapes, and a videotape of lessons taught during student teaching. (Author)

Explores issues related to the increasing role of private agencies in provision of supply teachers across Britain's schools. Draws on 60 interviews with mix of supply teachers, schoolteachers, and employees from two branches of large teacher-supply agency. Concludes that new models of providing temporary teaching cover are needed to address…

Examines how the Family and Medical Leave Act's special rules affecting primary and secondary education are likely to change the way that school administrators think about and make use of substitutes. Considers the pool of people who become substitutes and the way that they are recruited and compensated. Discusses intermittent leave for teachers…

This case presents a costly lesson for teachers and for districts that include a liquidated, or stipulated, damages clause in their teacher employment contracts. Although the court enforced the clause in this case, in this well-reasoned recent decision and in most of the much older, canvassed case law from other jurisdictions, the answer to the…

This edition of "Projections of Education Statistics" provides projections for key education statistics, including enrollment, graduates, degrees conferred, teachers, and expenditures in elementary and secondary schools. Included are national data on enrollment and graduates for the past 15 years and projections to the year 2017, as well…

One approach to the crisis in the supply of teachers in Britain is to attract back to the profession qualified teachers who have left. To know whether this approach is viable, however, it is important to know about the reasons for leaving teaching and factors affecting return. Therefore, a study was conducted to survey trained teachers not…