Proection of faculty employment and student enrollment at Montana State through the 1980s provides a basis for studying faculty attrition during declining enrollment. Projections indicate an average of 12 faculty members per year will have to be terminated and some tenured faculty laid off. (Author/LC)

This 1977 replication of a 1972 survey sought to determine if recent improvements in teaching conditions and benefits had affected Nigerian high school graduates' attitudes toward primary teaching as a career. (SJL)

Advocates teachers' use of personal writing for both personal and professional well being. (RL)

The Executive Director of the New Jersey Education Association discusses some of the top priorities facing his organization in the coming years. These include educational quality, accountability and testing, tenure, academic standards, and urban schools. (SJL)

Independent schools must regain a sense of union in an underlying purpose and reaffirm their commitment to attaining excellence while resisting the goals that are simpler and easier to measure. (Author/RK)

Uses narrative inquiry techniques to construct an Australian male's account of formative experiences as an early childhood educator and the difficulties encountered in a traditionally "female" profession. Notes that fear of unwarranted accusations of child sexual abuse and their impact highlight potential vulnerability of men in this…

It was not the longest strike in the history of U.S. teacher labor unrest, but it may be among the most infamous. Teachers in Middletown, N.J. walked out on a Friday in late November 2001, and were back in the classroom just over a week later. In between, 228 members of the Middletown Township Education Association were jailed for their action,…

The paper presents a history of the 1966 United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO)/International Labour Organisation (ILO) recommendation concerning the status of teachers. It spans the years 1945-1966, explaining how the recommendation evolved into the present text designed to improve teacher status and working…

During the 1930s and 1940s, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) devoted much time trying to improve educational opportunities for African-Americans within the existing segregated school system. The teacher salary equalization movement began with a series of successful cases in Maryland. This paper examines how…

The intent of this paper is to clarify the meaning of the "plateauing" of educators and its effects as a unique form of career stall. Initial definitions are followed by a summary of a presentation of and literature on plateauing and some preliminary findings about the extent of plateauing among educators and how they try to cope with…

This report is intended to be a reference document to assist local unions in developing their own analyses. It encourages comparison of teachers' salaries to the salaries of other workers and provides some insights as to how the basic needs of members are being met by the compensation available. Tables provide information on: (1) current teacher…

In the school, concern about individual differences is still reserved almost exclusively for students, while professional personnel are being limited by assigned role functions, role expectations, performance, and criteria. One reason for this situation is that a power elite model of decision making is prevalent in today's schools. Another reason…

This publication is a compilation of summaries of the major legal provisions of state and local retirement systems to which public school teachers belong. The individual summaries were prepared by state and local retirement administrators in accordance with a topical and explanatory outline developed by the National Council on Teacher Retirement.…

This speech, while noting the existence of law-related projects in inservice teacher education courses, stresses the need for law-related education in both preservice and inservice courses. The method for presenting law-related material in preservice education courses as described herein would not call for the introduction of new courses or units,…