Reports results of a questionnaire study designed to obtain information about how businessmen, public officials, industrial workers, administrators, and teachers feel about teacher salaries and tenure, methods of financing public schools, and school fund-raising projects. (JD)

Reasons for teachers' professional and personal disillusionment are explored, and some possible solutions are offered. (LH)

Suggestions are given for promoting the growth of teachers as professional by providing time for reflection and a support network of in-service education. (MP)

Explains the meaning of the New Jersey sick-leave law. Specifically, the Commissioner in his role as interpreter of the education law (Title 18A of the New Jersey Statues) enunciated 11 principles regarding sick leave. (Author/RK)

Education bargaining in the future is unlikely to be marked by the absence of conflict or by the declining use of power tactics, but by an increased capacity for cooperation and a more sophisticated use of power that is inherent in the structure of educational systems. (IAH)

Presents an interview with the chairperson of a regional committee of the Soviet teachers' trade union. Includes comments on the role of the trade union during perestroika, the development of union independence from the government, and an experimental program replacing some city committees with councils of trade union committee chairpersons. (DK)

Student teaching experience is important in the professional preparation of teachers. Successful teaching practice hinges on the effectiveness of cooperating teachers (CTs) who spend considerable time supervising and mentoring student teachers. Unfortunately, the welfare of the cooperating teachers is often neglected, and this is detrimental to…

A case involving the harassment of a female college writing instructor by an older, male student serves as a model to provide a framework for dealing with similar problems in the future. This case moved from initial acts of challenging authority in the classroom and monopolizing office hours to the bizarre: obscene phone calls, mysterious mail,…

At the Oklahoma College of Liberal Arts, 11 faculty members and 3 administrators were fired after a public press conference in which they were highly critical of the administration. A year earlier the institution's Board of Regents had revoked the college's tenure policy. (PG)

The action by the administration of Elmira College to remove Dr. Jerald Neilsen from his teaching and other faculty responsibilities for the duration of his appointment constituted a summary dismissal, in disregard of the provisions for academic due process. (Author/PG)

Some tenure problems could be alleviated by creating clear standards and practices for hiring, promotion, and dismissal; others could be lessened through more attention to definitions and procedures. (Author/PG)

The court decision of the Bloomfield College case concerning dismissals and abolition of tenure is presented with an explanatory introduction. (PG)

Discusses how the universities' capacity for change is limited by security of tenure. (Editor)

Offers a different strategy for the recruitment of teachers. (Editor/PG)

Air traffic control, surgery, and teaching are probably three of the most potentially stressful occupations in the world. Stress can be benign and growth-producing or malignant and destructive, depending on three primary factors: 1) the possession of coping behaviors which are effective and for which there is feedback as to the degree of their…