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Stacey, Meghan; Fitzgerald, Scott; Wilson, Rachel; McGrath-Champ, Susan; Gavin, Mihajla – Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2022
Fixed-term contracts are a relatively recent, yet growing category of employment for teachers in the public school system in New South Wales (NSW), Australia. In this article, we draw on quantitative and qualitative data from a large state-wide survey (N = 18,234) of members of the public-school teacher union, the NSW Teachers' Federation, in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Contracts, Teacher Employment, Public School Teachers
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Milliken, Matthew – Irish Educational Studies, 2021
Society in Northern Ireland can be characterised as being underpinned by an enduring cultural, religious and political divide between two dominant communities: Catholics and Protestants. The educational system largely reflects and contributes to the reproduction of this separation. Teachers are generally deployed in schools that are consistent…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Unions, Catholics, Protestants
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Han, Eunice S. – AERA Open, 2019
This article examines how teachers unions affect teachers' well-being under various legal institutions. Using a district-teacher matched data set, this study identifies the union effects by three approaches. First, I contrast teacher outcomes across different state laws toward unions. Second, I compare the union-nonunion differentials within the…
Descriptors: Unions, Well Being, School Districts, Collective Bargaining
Natsumi Ueda; Adrianna Kezar – Pullias Center for Higher Education, 2023
The University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMA), a public research university, has demonstrated a long-standing commitment to improving working conditions for non-tenure track faculty (NTTF) with a 20-year track record of progressive policies to improve the support for them. This commitment is manifested through a series of improvements in policies,…
Descriptors: Nontenured Faculty, College Faculty, Work Environment, Teaching Conditions
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Bush, Timothy Mark – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
This paper will consider how short-term contracts function as a technology for governing a new generation of teachers in Australia. It will proceed from Foucault's understanding that neoliberal modes of power seek to 'guide' or shape the conduct of the governed. In particular, the paper will consider how the short-term contracts implicate…
Descriptors: Job Security, Contracts, Teacher Employment, Foreign Countries
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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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Breshears, Sherry – TESL Canada Journal, 2019
This article draws from the concept of precarious employment to better understand the working conditions of teachers of adult English as an additional language (EAL) learners in Canada. I examine previously published research on the employment situations of this group of educators, drawing from data that have been gathered using interviews and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Adult Education
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Mutlu, Gülçin – Online Submission, 2016
This study aims to have a comparative look at the two countries, Belgium - Flemish Community and Turkey with regard to teacher training systems and qualitatively investigate the differences between these countries. The comparison themes for which these comparative analyses were based on were derived following a determination of the most prominent…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Teacher Education Programs, Teacher Education Curriculum
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Torres, A. Chris; Oluwole, Joseph – Journal of School Choice, 2015
Charter schools see as many as one in four teachers leave annually, and recent evidence attributes much of this turnover to provisions affected by collective bargaining processes and state laws such as salary, benefits, job security, and working hours. There have been many recent efforts to improve teacher voice in charter schools (Kahlenberg…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Job Satisfaction, Collective Bargaining, State Policy
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Marianno, Bradley D. – Journal of School Choice, 2015
Between 2011 and 2013 lawmakers in every state proposed, and often enacted, laws intended to impact codified state provisions related to teachers and teachers' unions (author calculation). These new laws either worked against union interests (e.g., by prohibiting collective bargaining) or they aligned with union positions (e.g. by providing…
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, Teacher Associations, Unions, Teacher Rights
Dismuke, Daniel P. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this study was to identify and describe the typical terms and conditions of employment in 2012-2013 negotiated agreements in Pennsylvania school districts, and to determine if there was a relationship between enrollment size and 5 selected terms and conditions of employment: base salary; highest salary; teacher contribution for one…
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, Teacher Employment, Boards of Education, Teacher Associations
Hoover, James P. – School Business Affairs, 2012
Sick leave banks are a common staple of teacher contracts. Although these banks may benefit employees, they expose school districts to a variety of complications and unintended consequences, including administrative complexity, potential cash flow implications, cost disparities, increased absenteeism, instructional instability, privacy issues, and…
Descriptors: Unions, Collective Bargaining, Cost Effectiveness, Leaves of Absence
LaFave, Allison; Lewis, Damani; Smith, Sarah – New England Resource Center for Higher Education, 2016
In 2006, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching developed an elective classification for community engagement for institutions of higher education. To receive the classification, campuses must complete an application and respond to questions by providing evidence that demonstrates a commitment to sustaining and increasing their…
Descriptors: Nontenured Faculty, College Faculty, Teacher Participation, Teacher Role
Cavanagh, Sean – Education Week, 2011
Teachers' unions find themselves on the defensive in states across the country, as governors and lawmakers press forward with proposals to target job protections and benefits that elected officials contend the public can no longer afford academically or financially. Many of those efforts are being driven by newly elected Republicans, who have…
Descriptors: Unions, State Officials, Legislators, Politics of Education
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Henderson, Michael B.; Howell, William G.; Peterson, Paul E. – Education Next, 2014
The Common Core State Standards initiative (CCSS) seeks to "provide a consistent, clear understanding of what students are expected to learn" at various grade levels. For some education observers, CCSS will finally clarify for students, parents, and educators what students need to know and be able to do if they are to be prepared for…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Educational Change, State Standards, Academic Standards
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