Discusses problems new teachers have with the teaching profession, including the low salaries, the adversary relationship between teachers and administrators, overly large classes, and too few instructional materials. (EL)

Results of the authors' survey of Oklahoma Education Association members indicate that moonlighting is a common practice among teachers. Whether through additional work within or outside the school system, many teachers feel the need to supplement their salaries. The continuing need for moonlighting threatens teaching's professional status. (JBM)

This paper describes a bioterrorism incident at a Connecticut elementary school. Flowers sent to a teacher were permeated with anthrax spores that infected the teacher, 12 of her students, 3 office staff members, and an administrator. The teacher subsequently died. The Connecticut Department of Public Health confirmed that the students and staff…

Presents country-by-country information on teacher militancy and the repression and victimization of teachers by Latin American military regimes, as reported to the World Confederation of Organizations of the Teaching Profession (WCOTP). Condensed from "ATA Magazine," published by the Alberta (Canada) Teacher's Association, January 1981,…

A survey of Virginia School Board members regarding their attitudes toward collective bargaining in education is reported. (JMF)

Since teachers are a school's most important resource and its largest financial investment, it makes sense to devote time to assuring their success. A school can protect its investment in new teachers by giving them the necessary support from the start through relationships that are both nurturing and evaluative. (Author/AN)

Summarizes the findings of a recent Rand Corporation study of teacher collective bargaining in America. Examined were teachers' gains in compensation, teaching conditions, and decision-making power; tactics of teacher groups; and the financial and administrative implications of these trends. (SJL)

Efforts to reform education in France include proposed changes in teacher education and the teaching profession that are met with a range of responses from skepticism to hostility. The reactions leave the government little room for movement. (MSE)

Discusses a perceived lack of concern for retired teachers among former students and the community at large. Provides examples and excerpts from letters describing loneliness and financial difficulties among retired teachers in the Soviet Union. Urges respect and concern for those who have given everything for their profession, often at the…

The potential impacts of teacher work reform efforts on attracting and retaining the best teachers are summarized in this paper, which draws on research conducted in Utah, Colorado, and Missouri between 1985 and 1991. Bluedorn's (1982) model of turnover is used to evaluate the effects of teacher work reform on turnover, which is composed of…

Many of the social reasons that prompted certain people to choose teaching careers in the past, when the only options available to them were bleak in comparison, are no longer valid. Talented people who enter teaching must now do so out of a positive attraction to teaching. Unfortunately, teaching has few positive attractions and those few it does…

The current movement for educational reform follows earlier realizations that the nation's industry and infrastructures have been neglected. President Reagan has responded inadequately to the crisis in education, and Americans will not accept Reagan administration initiatives that do not continue and expand existing successful programs, such as…

Results of a survey of pension plans in Ontario universities are summarized according to type of plan, eligibility, member and university contributions, and benefits. Benefits for normal retirment, early retirement, termination, and death are presented. Death benefits are outlined for before retirement, after retirement, and by model pension…

This 715-item bibliography on teacher-school board negotiations updates the earlier bibliography by Owen G. Arnold and John Gordon Taylor published by Phi Delta Kappa in 1967. This revision contains more than double the number of items which appeared in the earlier publication, indicating the expansion of the field. Items cited, dating from 1956…

The first known analysis of a substantial number of arbitration awards in higher education is presented in an effort to determine whether arbitrators have confined their awards within the contract limitations. All of the arbitration awards generated by the four-year colleges of the State University of New York as well as the awards of the…