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Sharp, Helen M. – American School Board Journal, 1986
Describes some of the reasons teachers are quitting the profession and recommends specific actions school board members can take (1) to improve school facilities, curricula, and teaching conditions, and (2) to meet student needs. (IW)
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Board of Education Role, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education
Bressler, Marvin; And Others – New York University Education Quarterly, 1982
Presents perspectives of five authorities in education on the question of academic freedom in elementary, secondary, and higher education. Suggests that the meaning of academic freedom has become more ambiguous and elusive as new social and educational settings have developed in recent years. (Author/MJL)
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Board of Education Role, Censorship, Civil Liberties
Federal City Council, Washington, DC. – 1989
This report presents a comprehensive plan, developed by the D.C. Committee on Public Education, to help strengthen the public schools in the District of Columbia. Chapter 1, "An Introduction: A Vision of the Future," contains the following sections: (1) "Description of the Committee"; (2) "Philosophy and Beliefs of the…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Curriculum, Educational Assessment, Educational Change
Download full textMaitland, Christine; Kerchner, Charles T. – 1986
Results of a study involving 450 teachers in three California school districts show that two sets of standards exist for judging the effectiveness of teacher unions. For union leaders, legitimacy means keeping promises to teachers by winning concessions from management and, at the same time, working toward a more credible and cooperative…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Board of Education Role, Collective Bargaining, Educational Environment
Darr, Alice Dozier; Kise, Joan Duff – 1983
This paper deals with different support systems available for teachers and stresses the importance of inservice teacher education. The first section discusses teachers' support systems, which usually include six domains: self, family, friends, job, community, and profession. Five models are used to describe the intensity of support of each domain…
Descriptors: Coping, Elementary Secondary Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Interpersonal Communication
Bowker, Lee H.; And Others – 1986
The support of teaching in the liberal arts is examined using data from a random sample of chief liberal arts academic officers of American colleges and universities. Information is presented on 15 categories of faculty support for teaching and research, basic teaching conditions, tenure decisions, and merit salary increases. Differences in…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Instruction, Educational Resources, Expenditures
Ogletree, Earl J.; Garrett, Willie – 1981
One hundred twenty-five Chicago (Illinois) area elementary and secondary school teachers were surveyed through responses to a 44-item questionnaire to determine the extent of their knowledge of school law. Many of the questions were based on Illinois school law, and the findings are qualified by local school district practice and the…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Knowledge Level, Legal Education, Public Schools
Harvey, Karen D. – 1982
The thesis of this paper is that, although the concept of teacher support groups is well accepted, their implementation is haphazard at best. Three reasons are cited: (1) Professional literature often mandates conditions for establishing support groups that are unrealistic for most schools; (2) Teachers sometimes see the support group as another…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Helping Relationship, Inservice Teacher Education, Interpersonal Relationship
Wright, Gary R. – 1981
In education, as in business, management is concerned with three production factors: human resources, finances, and technology. Differences between the education and business spheres become apparent when a comparison is made of the installation of a new piece of engineering equipment with the orientation of a new teacher. If as much care was taken…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Business, Delivery Systems, Elementary Secondary Education
McGaw, Barry; And Others – 1979
This study explored the range of future policies preferred by a selected sample of Australian educators and identified the grounds on which the preferences were based. Seventy-eight policy options for teacher education in Australia were identified through workshop participants and examination of reports of inquiries and investigations in…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Educational Attitudes, Educational Improvement, Educational Needs
Lombardi, John – 1975
The number of part-time faculty in the community college has dramaticallV increased in recent years. The trend to hire more part-time instructors will likely continue, due to the increasing numbers of part-time students, the movement toward off-campus classes in scattered locations, and the growing numbers of unemployed college graduates with…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Collective Bargaining, College Faculty, Faculty Organizations
Herrick, H. Scott – 1973
This study examines the relationship of organizational variables to teacher motivation. It seeks to determine what differences, if any, exist between the organizational structures of multiunit (MUS) and non-multiunit (NMUS) individually guided education (IGE) elementary schools. The unit of analysis consists of MUS and NMUS elementary schools in…
Descriptors: Centralization, Decision Making, Elementary Education, Individualized Instruction
National Association of College and University Business Officers, Washington, DC. – 1974
This text presents indepth coverage of five areas of college and university business administration, including administrative management, business management, fiscal management, and financial accounting and reporting. The section on administrative management encompasses institutional planning, management information systems and data processing,…
Descriptors: Administration, Budgets, Business Administration, Collective Bargaining
Murray, James E.; Brown, Kathleen Sullivan – 2003
This study reviewed the historical development of the teacher-compensation paradigm, discussed the current trends in alternative compensation policy strategies, and examined the teacher-compensation policies and practices in one state. The study was a mixed-methods policy analysis that used multiple linear regression, cluster analysis, and…
Descriptors: Compensation (Remuneration), Contract Salaries, Educational Finance, Educational Policy
Cooper, Bruce S., Ed. – 1992
This book analyzes the unionization of elementary and secondary school teachers in a variety of nations. Following the acknowledgments, foreword by Charles T. Kerchner, and introduction, 16 articles are presented from different countries on international labor relations in education. Each chapter contains an overview and exploration of the…
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
