Discusses a study to determine whether the extent to which vocational agriculture teachers were employed on a twelve-month basis was related to Future Farmers of America chapter activity level. (JOW)

Focuses on various areas of potential liability for department chairs, including admission policies, program changes, catalog issues, academic and disciplinary dismissals, disruptive students, employment issues, etc. (PD)

Seven justifications for the 12-month employment period are presented which may be helpful to agriculture teachers and others where a movement is emerging to make the basic employment period 9 or 10 months. (Author/MS)

Affective skills, says the author, are too often overlooked when sizing up a potential teacher. Some helpful interview techniques are outlined here that can clarify an applicant's attitudes toward both himself and children. (Editor)

Gives ten "don'ts" coming out of recent court rulings that school administrators should bear in mind before firing a teacher. Issues such as homosexuality, militancy, and insubordination are discussed. (Author/DN)

Argues that grammar and secondary schools did not suffer greatly during the period immediately after the restoration of the English monarchy in 1660. The author provides figures to show that, contrary to popular opinion, few dissenting teachers were dismissed during that period. (JF)

Discusses legal aspects of collective negotiation in States that have no comprehensive statutes regulating public employee collective negotiation. (JF)

Deals with the public employer-employee bargaining relationship in States where there is no comprehensive scheme for regulating that relationship. Points out the legal issues that arise in such a relationship and the difficulties to be avoided in resolving those issues. (Author)

Discusses Ohio's experience with public employee collective negotiation in the absence of comprehensive statutes governing such negotiation. (JF)

Traditional view of the personal vs. professional'' conflict present when married women work; the author feels professional duties should come first. (SP)

Describes the implications of a recent U.S. Supreme Court case upholding a Massachusetts loyalty oath required of all State and local government employees, including teachers. (JF)

Tenure laws should be repealed or modified to encourage contractual rather than legislative protection for teachers. (Author)