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Mehrotra, Santosh; Panchamukhi, Parthasarthi R. – Compare: A Journal of Comparative Education, 2006
Private sector growth in education is the new neo-liberal mantra. Based on data generated by a representative sample survey in eight states, six of which account for two-thirds of the children out of school in India, this paper examines the private sector in elementary education in India, and compares its characteristics with government schools.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Education, Private Sector, Private Schools
Moreo, Dominic W. – 1996
This book delineates the effects of the Great Depression upon the schools and explores how the supporters of public education responded to the retrenchment of school budgets. The introduction postulates that the public schools as a bureaucratic system in the best of times produced what it was capable of producing, which at times coincided with the…
Descriptors: Blacks, Budgets, Educational Change, Educational Finance
"If You Have a Ph.D., Then Why Are You Teaching Kindergarten?": A Teacher Research Work in Progress.
Goldstein, Lisa Siegel – 1996
A teacher with a new Ph.D. recounts her experience in returning to her previous role as a full-time teacher as she attempts also to conduct a teacher research program. She recounts her previous unsatisfactory experience co-teaching on a part-time basis while doing graduate research and her realization of the need to be the real teacher to conduct…
Descriptors: Action Research, Classroom Research, Early Childhood Education, Elementary School Teachers
Jones, Betty B. – 1993
The call for greater diversity among college faculty and administrators is a prominent feature in the literature of higher education and especially of community colleges. For faculty members and administrators who may be the only, or the first, or even the token minority within their division, it is important to resolve what being the "only…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Alienation, College Administration, College Faculty
Byrne, Barbara M. – 1992
This study was conducted to identify the most salient organizational and personality factors contributing to burnout for elementary, intermediate, and secondary teachers; and to determine the pattern of causal predominance linking these stressors to burnout for each teacher group. Participants in the study, full-time elementary (N=599),…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Causal Models, Classroom Environment, Decision Making
Williams, Don – 1994
To guide the development of teacher education programs at the University of Western Sydney Macarthur (Australia), a "Starting Teacher" questionnaire and the Graduate Career Council of Australia survey were administered to 48 early childhood and 168 primary teacher education students at their graduation ceremony in April 1993. These…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Graduate Surveys
Forsyth, Patrick B., Ed.; Tallerico, Marilyn, Ed. – 1993
This volume offers nine chapters on focal issues in current urban education that are of a middle-range of abstraction and have long-term consequences for students. Individual chapters provide examples of possible interventions appropriate to the unique context of urban schools. The following chapters correspond to nine problems of practice, which…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Children, Context Effect, Decision Making
Education International, Brussels (Belgium). – 1998
This report, based on a conference of international lecturers and academics and organized by Education International, notes that the number of college students has significantly increased over the last 2 decades while spending on almost every aspect of higher education has declined over the same time period. It warns that standards could plummet…
Descriptors: Accountability, College Faculty, Distance Education, Educational Finance
Bacharach, Samuel B. – 1983
Conceptualizing stress as an interaction of organizational or work characteristics (stress stimuli) and individual characteristics (stress resistance), this paper reports a study of teacher stress in 42 elementary school organizations and 45 secondary school organizations. Organizational stress is operationalized as the aggregate average response…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, High Schools, Multiple Regression Analysis, Organization
Baltimore Community Coll., MD. – 1988
This collective bargaining agreement was negotiated in 1988 between the City of Baltimore and the Community College of Baltimore Faculty Federation to establish terms of employment for the college's full-time faculty. The 17 articles in this contract cover: (1) union recognition and definitions; (2) union-board relations, including standards of…
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, College Faculty, Community Colleges, Contracts
Kells, Patricia P.; And Others – 1982
Results of an assessment of 50 ecological and stress management competencies that were developed as part of a Kansas project to improve retention of special education personnel are presented in narrative and data sections. Ecological considerations include those that contribute to job success, such as job challenge and community atmosphere, while…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Classroom Environment, Competence, Disabilities
Protheroe, Nancy – 1987
Summarized in this report are the responses of the 1,222 public school teachers who participated in the 1987 Educator Opinion Poll (43 percent of the national sample). The survey instrument included both questions eliciting the opinions of teachers and questions about their status and experiences. Opinion questions covered such topics as the lead…
Descriptors: Class Size, Differentiated Staffs, Educational Practices, Elementary Secondary Education
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Princeton, NJ. – 1988
A comprehensive survey was conducted seeking the opinions of 40,000 secondary school teachers on the impact of school reform proposals. Over 13,500 teachers returned questionnaires, for a response rate of 33.9%. In this report an evaluation is presented of the school renewal movement drawn from the perspective of the teacher. The survey included…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Educational Change, Educational Environment
Romberg, Thomas A., Ed.; Stewart, Deborah M., Ed. – 1987
This document is the third of three related volumes. They present the rationale, background, and framework for a comprehensive monitoring system being developed for the National Science Foundation. The system is being designed to gather information about the effects of national, state, and local policy actions designed to change the teaching and…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Educational Sociology, Educational Trends, Elementary School Mathematics
Bernier, Normand R.; McClelland, Averil E. – 1981
One of the major areas of change currently affecting planning and policy in teacher education is the preservice and inservice preparation of educators for nonschool settings. Historically, institutional and organizational responses to the diverse educational needs of society have been legitimized in the classroom. However, changes in the…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Educational Change, Educational Trends, Futures (of Society)