Sixty thousand students from the Los Angeles Unified School District are being bused. Parents are reacting to the legal order. In addition, increasing numbers of teacher strikes are occurring around the nation. The desegregation program taking place in Los Angeles, and the effects of teacher activism in other parts of the country, are described.…

Collective bargaining in education raises some ethical problems because of the impact that decisions have on individuals and groups who are not part of the bargaining process. Alternatives to be explored involve special forms of binding arbitration or voucher systems, but any alternative should seek to better represent the public interest. (DS)

The lesson for junior high and secondary social studies classes illustrates the effects of a breakdown in the functioning of one key system in an interdependent network. Based on an airline strike, the activity involves students in identifying the subsystems affected by the strike, devising solutions, and writing business reports about the…

Describes Pasco (Washington) School District's resolution of a recent negotiation impasse in their normal "win/win" collective bargaining process. The key was to reestablish the trust, patience, and willingness to listen that had eroded over the years as new participants replaced old hands in the nonadversarial bargaining process. (MLH)

A review of the economy in 1973 includes coverage of price controls and freezes; monetary and fiscal policy; unemployment collective bargaining (apparel, railroads, rubber, electrical equipment, postal, trucking, automobiles); strikes; legal developments (employment discrimination and legislation); union developments (indictment, farm ferment,…

One of the foremost authorities on school negotiations views the first decade of bargaining in education and makes some predictions about the future. Discusses administrative reorganization to cope with bargaining, the role of superintendents, grievance procedures, the role of principals, tenure and due process, discrimination against women…

Presents the practical and legal effects of the public employee strike. (JF)

School boards by state statutes are alone accountable for the education of their communities' youth. What's needed, the writer contends, is a rectification of the statutes so that all parties to negotiations are accountable. (Editor)

Because strikes don't solve problems in America's public schools, arbitration is offered as the most effective alternate available. The author believes arbitration is a viable means by which teacher's legitimate demands may be protected. (Editor)

Speech presented at the 54th annual NASSP Convention. (EJS)

Author regards the disruption and violence on campus last spring as an end to passivity and a first step toward depoliticization of the American university. (IR)

The eruption on college campuses last spring caused many members of the academyto re-examine themselves and the truths they had so long lived by. (Editor)

An experimental group of 34 Pennsylvania school districts that had experienced a strike were matched with a control group of 34 nonstrike districts. Statistical analyses of grades five, eight, and 11 revealed significant strike effects in grade five scores of self-esteem, mathematics, and interest in school and learning. (MLF)

An analysis of over 1,700 negotiations conducted by 289 Indiana school districts revealed that collective bargaining conversion from voluntary to compulsory mediation and factfinding sharply reduced the length of negotiations but had no effect in reducing the number of severely protracted negotiations. (MLF)