The problems of public education are not that America's classrooms are filled with too many bad teachers or too few smart ones. Instead, policy makers are paying too little attention to mobilizing the many experts teaching today who could lead in powerful ways. Enter the teacherpreneur, who teaches students for a career and has "the…

Teacher networks are an important lever for helping schools make change. In order to take advantage of teacher networks, principals must map the existing networks in their schools, identifying teachers and others who serve as experts or advice givers, brokers, and advice seekers. Once these are known, principals can decide on a strategy for…

The past year has seen the emergence of a broad consensus on raising the standards for entering the teaching profession. The NEA, AFT, and Council of Chief State School Officers all have said they want higher entry standards. Such an exam would be modeled after other professions and is a potential game changer. If sufficiently rigorous, the exam…

Little is known about when adolescents' vocational interests begin to surge. For the author's study with students participating in Georgia's Future Educators Association (FEA) conference, the sample had students from 13 to 19 years of age, and the author found that there was a dramatic change in interest between ages 15 and 16. FEA offers middle…

Results of a recent study show that teacher bargaining has been more than minimally effective. (Author)

Charges that New York City's teacher union misleads the public with sophisticated advertising techniques. (Author)

Answers charges that New York City's teacher union misleads the public with sophisticated advertising techniques. (See EA 504 731.) Author/JF)

Compares the ratio of the average annual salary paid public school teachers to per capita personal income. This study indicates that teachers' salaries have kept pace with other salaries since the 1930's but there has been no relative gain. (MF)

In this article, the author argues that administrators should not overlook their nurturing, supportive, even ministerial role. He also argues that those who would create learning communities would do well to embrace it. It was Mohandas Gandhi who said, "I can say without the slightest hesitation and yet in all humility, that those who say…

The copy of a "Reader's Digest" article critical of the political activities of the National Education Association (NEA) is run with marginal comments written by Terry Herndon, NEA executive director. (IRT)

Discussion of the new body of common law" governing grievance settlements under negotiated contracts, with useful recommendations. (Author)

The former superintendent of District 1 on the Lower East Side of Manhattan defends community control and his actions. (IRT)

The president of the National Education Association (NEA) responds to Chester Finn's article (EA 518 431, this issue) by pointing out patterns of inaccuracy and misrepresentation in Finn's criticisms of the NEA. (MD)

Leaders of the National Education Association give their views on a cabinet-level department of education, a national collective bargaining law for education, teacher centers, public day care, vouchers, the Carter administration, and the "Proposition 13 syndrome." (IRT)