Advice to administrators from the assistant director of teacher recruitment for the Chicago public schools. (SP)

Draft statement developed by a joint task force of the National Society of Professors and the National Faculty Association of Community and Junior Colleges in consultation with the NEA office of General Counsel, NEA Higher Education, and NEA Programs for Human and Civil Rights. (Editor/CB)

A suggestion that husband-wife teams to employed as partnership teachers, and a fictitious example of how such a team might work. (SP)

Untenured college faculty may not have contracts renewed. (HS)

Major changes in teacher organizations are likely to occur in the next decade," as unions grow larger and more organized. (Author/SP)

Discusses cases involving the application of the Bill of Rights of the Federal Constitution to State laws relating to untenured teachers. (JF)

Discusses the injustices associated with part-time faculty status. Calls for professionals to recognize and try, ethically, to solve the problems of part-timers. Suggests procedures institutions can adopt to facilitate the integration of part-timers. (PD)

Describes a British project to develop a sophisticated checklist which would adequately describe teachers' jobs. Included is a discussion of the methodology used to identify teaching tasks and to compile and structure checklist categories. Preliminary and final checklist structures are compared. (AM)

Analysis of questionnaires completed by 95 special education graduate students who had received a traineeship indicated that only a small percentage did not find employment in handicapped related settings, while 74.7 percent found employment directly related to teaching handicapped children. (CL)

Describes how a number of nonteaching jobs can provide practical benefits to the teacher unable to land a teaching job. (DD)

Comments on the job placement activities at the annual meeting of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. (IRT)

Interviews Simon Edgewood, a former university-level instructor who is trying to re-enter the profession at the secondary level. Provides a brief analysis and discussion. Discusses implications for the profession. (RS)