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Thomsen, Jennifer – Education Commission of the States, 2014
An increasing number of states are mandating teacher performance be considered in educator employment decisions, including awarding tenure and layoffs, according to a 50-state policy review of teacher tenure laws. Tenure laws have historically granted job protections based on years of employment. The Education Commission of the States (ECS)…
Descriptors: Teacher Recruitment, Teacher Effectiveness, Personnel Management, Personnel Policy
American Educator, 2016
More than 60 years after the ruling in "Brown v. Board of Education" was handed down, its promise remains unfulfilled. In many respects, America's public schools continue to be "separate and unequal." Indeed, the growing resegregation of American schools by race and ethnicity, compounded by economic class segregation, has…
Descriptors: Diversity (Faculty), Ethnic Diversity, Minority Group Teachers, Minority Group Students
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Luo, Zhongshu – Chinese Education and Society, 2014
The article analyzes the practice and experience of faculty management at the University of Pennsylvania and its implications for Chinese universities from the perspective of management systems and operation mechanisms. Recent reforms and innovation of faculty management at Sichuan University are described.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, College Administration, Personnel Management
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Koedel, Cory; Podgursky, Michael; Shi, Shishan – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2013
Teacher pension systems concentrate retirements within a narrow range of the career cycle by penalizing individuals who separate too soon or remain employed too long. The penalties result in the retention of some teachers who would otherwise choose to leave, and the premature exit of some teachers who would otherwise choose to stay. We examine the…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Compensation (Remuneration), Teacher Employment Benefits, Teacher Retirement
Joseph, Nithya; Waymack, Nancy; Zielaski, Daniel – National Council on Teacher Quality, 2014
While policymakers have been directing considerable attention to teacher effectiveness, one basic aspect of effectiveness has received relatively little attention: teacher attendance. No matter how engaging or talented teachers may be, they can only have an impact on student learning if they are in the classroom. This paper asks a simple question:…
Descriptors: Teacher Attendance, Teacher Influence, Public School Teachers, Employee Absenteeism
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Torres, A. Chris; Oluwole, Joseph – Journal of School Choice, 2015
Charter schools see as many as one in four teachers leave annually, and recent evidence attributes much of this turnover to provisions affected by collective bargaining processes and state laws such as salary, benefits, job security, and working hours. There have been many recent efforts to improve teacher voice in charter schools (Kahlenberg…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Job Satisfaction, Collective Bargaining, State Policy
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Bunten, Bridget A. – Theory Into Practice, 2014
This article focuses on the importance of recognizing and appreciating the ways that a teacher integrates her personal and professional life with an English-only policy. Much can be learned from the ways in which she negotiates social forces and integrates them into her individual reality while making sense of the restrictive language policy.…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Compliance (Legal), Teacher Rights, Teacher Attitudes
Jackson, Stephen; Remer, Casey – Hunt Institute, 2014
Policymakers know that improving teaching in our schools requires a systemic look at many policies related to educator effectiveness. For example, teacher preparation programs need to be dramatically improved and strengthened, but without accompanying reform in compensation, even highly effective and innovative schools of education are unlikely to…
Descriptors: Teacher Salaries, Compensation (Remuneration), Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Qualifications
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Zasypkin, V. P.; Zborovskii, G. E. – Russian Education and Society, 2012
In the social, political, and social humanities lexicon of today's Russia there is probably no word that is in wider and more common use than modernization. What this refers to is the profound and systematic transformation of all the main structures and sub-systems of the social organism, including "education"--one of the most important,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teacher Education, Educational Change, Educational Development
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Cornman, Stephen Q. – National Center for Education Statistics, 2016
This First Look report introduces new data for national and state-level public elementary and secondary revenues and expenditures for fiscal year 2013 (FY 13). Specifically, this report includes findings from the following types of school finance data: (1) revenue and expenditure totals; (2) revenues by source; (3) expenditures by function and…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Elementary Secondary Education, Expenditures, Income
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Fitzpatrick, Maria D.; Lovenheim, Michael F. – Education Next, 2014
As public budgets have grown tighter over the past decade, states and school districts have sought ways to control the growth of spending. One increasingly common strategy employed to rein in costs is to offer experienced teachers with high salaries financial incentives to retire early. Although early retirement incentive (ERI) programs have been…
Descriptors: Teacher Retirement, Teacher Employment Benefits, Educational Finance, Incentives
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Marianno, Bradley D. – Journal of School Choice, 2015
Between 2011 and 2013 lawmakers in every state proposed, and often enacted, laws intended to impact codified state provisions related to teachers and teachers' unions (author calculation). These new laws either worked against union interests (e.g., by prohibiting collective bargaining) or they aligned with union positions (e.g. by providing…
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, Teacher Associations, Unions, Teacher Rights
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Baker, Bruce D.; Oluwole, Joseph O.; Green, Preston C., III – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2013
In this article, we explain how overly prescriptive, rigid state statutory and regulatory policy frameworks regarding teacher evaluation, tenure and employment decisions outstrip the statistical reliability and validity of proposed measures of teaching effectiveness. We begin with a discussion of the emergence of highly prescriptive state…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Employment, Tenure
Dismuke, Daniel P. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this study was to identify and describe the typical terms and conditions of employment in 2012-2013 negotiated agreements in Pennsylvania school districts, and to determine if there was a relationship between enrollment size and 5 selected terms and conditions of employment: base salary; highest salary; teacher contribution for one…
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, Teacher Employment, Boards of Education, Teacher Associations
Hoover, James P. – School Business Affairs, 2012
Sick leave banks are a common staple of teacher contracts. Although these banks may benefit employees, they expose school districts to a variety of complications and unintended consequences, including administrative complexity, potential cash flow implications, cost disparities, increased absenteeism, instructional instability, privacy issues, and…
Descriptors: Unions, Collective Bargaining, Cost Effectiveness, Leaves of Absence
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