The difficulties associated with enhancing teacher quality and teacher development are explored. Reform must begin with identification of school conditions that must be changed to enable teacher growth and delineation of goals that incentive systems are structured to achieve. (DF)

This paper utilizes individual institutional level data upon which the published American Association of University Professors (AAUP) salary survey results are based to compute continuation rates for associate professors during the 1996-97 and 2001-02 period. It summarizes the levels of continuation rates, by institutional category and…

This fastback addresses the issue of stress by providing teachers with a resource guide that defines stress; normalizes the origins of teacher stress; provides a model for achieving personal wellness through life balance; and provides tools for reducing the effects of stress. Learning healthy habits can help teachers cope with the demands of their…

This booklet discusses how to develop successful substitute teachers, explaining that most substitutes do not receive the respect necessary to be effective. School districts must take such steps as adopting fair substitute hiring practices, allowing for the regular placement of substitutes in the same school over the year, and including…

This study examined the regular infringement of outside intrusions into the classroom learning environment, surveying a stratified, randomly-selected group of 557 teachers in Saskatchewan, Canada, regarding their experiences with and feelings about such time-consuming episodes. Teacher were asked to indicate the typical daily number of such…

Article points up the essential nature of academic freedom as allowing teachers to be innovative and enliven and inspire students by exercising professional and intellectual judgement in presenting course material. (Author/GB)

Challenges to be met by social studies teachers in a time of rapid social change are presented. (DB)

Describes the growth and development of collective bargaining by university faculty, and examines some of the objections and benefits resulting from it. (RB)

Describes the difficult conditions under which teachers and pupils operate in Bolivian schools. (MM)

This article offers some specific suggestions for programmed instruction in the teaching of bookkeeping. Prior to his death, Dr. Gibbs was an assistant professor at Arizona State University, Tempe. (Editor)

Documents attempts to subvert academic freedom at the University of Washington between 1946 and 1954. (AEA)

Teachers have identified a number of stress situations in their work with disruptive children: insecurity due to student unpredictability, doubting their effectiveness, frustrated attempts at communication with other professionals, and feelings of isolation and limited social relationships (expressed by residential workers). (CT)

This discussion of the conditions under which teachers work focuses on threats of violence, out-of-control classes, and lack of support from administrators. (IRT)