There is little or no reason to believe that administrators and school boards are involved in a conspiracy to allow paraprofessionals to replace teachers. (Author/JN)

The author argues that the secret of successful use of indigenous paraprofessionals in social and health services is the development of purposeful assignments, respect and meaningful status for the paraprofessionals as contributing members of a service team. (Author)

Discusses the attitude of the educational profession to non-teachers working in the classroom. (TS)

Lay personnel indigenous to the inner city were selected and trained in helping and human relations skills as functional professionals. In turn, they utilized an internship principle in conducting similar training programs for 63 essentially unselected hard core unemployed. (Author)

Several questions raised by the research on the use of aides are: (1) would adequately trained nonprofessionals be accepted by clients and/or employers? (2) what implications does the use of aides hold for professional training? and (3) is a composite, applied theory of nonprofessional practice possible? (Author/CJ)

Describes a method, patterned after the National Football League draft, that one school district created to transfer professional and nonprofessional personnel to new and old schools within the district. (IRT)

Presents results from two surveys of catalog departments in academic libraries that were conducted to determine the changing role of catalog librarians. Main areas of focus include catalog department organizational patterns; the managerial responsibilities of the cataloger; and which cataloging tasks are performed by professionals and which are…

Discusses job satisfaction in classified support staff (primarily clerical and secretarial) of colleges and universities. Notes that these staff are frequently the first representatives of the institution encountered by prospective students, parents, and others. Finds that rewards and recognition, opportunities for feedback, and help with…

In January 2002, the Tulsa (Oklahoma) Public Schools launched the Learning, Education, and Resource Network (LEARN) Academy, a learning opportunity for its noncertified staff. The academy provides intensive leadership skills development and opportunities. Participants include representatives of transportation, child nutrition, health services,…

Ten weeks of assertion training was provided to eight mental hospital paraprofessionals. These trained subjects served as either counselor or counselee in a microcounseling session with eight paraprofessionals who were untrained in assertion training. Assertion-trained counselors were superior to untrained counselors on a set of…