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Breshears, Sherry – TESL Canada Journal, 2019
This article draws from the concept of precarious employment to better understand the working conditions of teachers of adult English as an additional language (EAL) learners in Canada. I examine previously published research on the employment situations of this group of educators, drawing from data that have been gathered using interviews and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Adult Education
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Belfield, Clive R.; Heywood, John S. – Economics of Education Review, 2008
Theory and evidence on performance-related pay for teaching remain inconclusive. Teachers will respond to rewards, but an appropriate reward structure may not be devised because education is a collaborative endeavor. Here we test three hypotheses: performance-related pay among teachers is more likely to be observed when there are evident…
Descriptors: Merit Pay, Job Satisfaction, Rewards, Merit Rating
Greene, Jay P.; Winters, Marcus A. – Center for Civic Innovation, 2007
Education policy discussions often assume that public school teachers are poorly paid. Typically absent in these discussions about teacher pay, however, is any reference to systematic data on how much public school teachers are actually paid, especially relative to other occupations. Because discussions about teacher pay rarely reference these…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Graduation Rate, Teacher Employment Benefits, Compensation (Remuneration)
Keesecker, Ward W. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1929
During the biennium 1926-1928 approximately 1,200 educational acts of general application were passed in the continental United States. The outstanding general feature is the increased tendency to employ educational surveys and state-wide investigations as bases for educational legislation. In recent years legislatures and school officials have…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Superintendents, Counties, School Support
Frazier, Benjamin W. – Office of Education, Federal Security Agency, 1947
Following the setbacks of wartime, teaching is once more on the march toward a professional status that is in keeping with its great importance to the Nation and to the world. Numerous agencies have expressed the need for an authoritative statement setting forth the facts on which a young person might base a decision to enter upon teaching as a…
Descriptors: Educational History, Teaching (Occupation), Pamphlets, Teaching Conditions
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Anderson, Earl W. – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1955
This bulletin is published as a much-need service to young men and women considering preparation for teaching. In it they will find information and judgments on duties, requirements, opportunities, satisfactions and annoyances in teaching as a life work. Because essential data has changed, the current report is written to describe the occupation…
Descriptors: Educational History, Teaching (Occupation), Early Childhood Education, Administrator Role