This study aimed to gain insight into the relationship between teacher education and graduating teachers (not) starting in the teaching profession (n=209). Predictor variables referred to teacher education, integration into teaching, and teaching commitment. To examine interrelationships between these variables, factors were also interlinked to…

Regulations for sick leave and substitute teachers, adopted by the North Carolina State Board of Education, are presented in outline form. Sick leave regulations provide for sick leave eligibility, sick leave earned, leave charges, sick leave accumulation, advancement of sick leave, verification of sick leave, repayment of excessive leave,…

A report by an imaginary Moral Standards Committee of the All-American Association of School Boards on the relationship of private sinning to public education is discussed. (MB)

Teachers who have tenure status do not possess a permanent right to their positions, but they do have a guarantee of procedural due process if their positions are threatened. (CK)

Teacher salaries are the single most costly item in every state's education budget. This report provides both a historical overview and recent statistics on trends in teacher salaries. The report describes the status of teacher salaries in the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) states, defines "average" teacher salary, and…

THIS STUDY OF THE PROFESSIONAL, ECONOMIC, AND SOCIAL STATUS OF PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS IN 23 COUNTRIES IN THE AMERICAS INCLUDES DATA ON TRAINED AND UNTRAINED TEACHERS AND ON THE PRESENCE, IF ANY, OF PROFESSIONAL TEACHER TRAINING SCHOOLS. THE ECONOMIC SECTION DEALS WITH TEACHERS' SALARIES IN RELATION TO SALARIES FOR OTHER OCCUPATIONS. THE SOCIAL…

Teacher conduct is a loaded concept. Teachers in New Jersey are cautioned to study their life styles and the existing teacher conduct regulations to avoid conflict and possible loss of jobs. (DS)

Over the last sixteen years, part-time teachers have become the coolies, or the burden bearers of the academic community. Used mostly to teach lower-level basic classes, they have increased in number from 36,420 in l968 to 330,000 in l985. Research about part timers began in the late l970s with Howard Tuckman, who tried to find systematic and…

"Making the Move to eLearning" proposes a radical truth--that online education, when taught using the methodology perfected by successful veterans of distance learning--surpasses traditional face-to-face teaching and learning. The key is for online educators to learn just what those successful methods are and how to emulate them in their…

TO IDENTIFY THE AMOUNTS OF TIME WHICH TEACHERS GIVE TO THEIR INSTRUCTIONAL AND NONINSTRUCTIONAL DUTIES, A QUESTIONNAIRE WAS SENT TO A RANDOM SAMPLE OF 3,594 CLASSROOM TEACHERS, OF WHOM 1,725 RETURNED USABLE REPLIES. MOST SPENT ABOUT 8 TO 9 HOURS A DAY (INCLUDING 2 TO 3 HOURS OUTSIDE OF THE SCHOOL DAY) ON TEACHING, PREPARATION FOR TEACHING, AND…

A grade school teacher objects to the fact that school boards require an intimate personal history of a teacher before considering her for employment, but do not in turn allow her to choose her own school. (CK)