Lists activities to expect from teachers before and during a teacher strike. (IRT)

Describes some of the "latest family squabbles" amongst the leaders and members of the national teachers' unions. (Author/WM)

Reports on the annual meetings of the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers. Compares this year's issues to the political themes of last year's meetings. (WD)

Recounts what it is like to be a school board member during a teacher strike. (IRT)

The proposed federal collective bargaining laws would establish the federal government as the final arbiter in labor disputes between teachers and school boards and force boards to bargain matters of educational policy with their employees. (Author/IRT)

Reviews issues raised at conventions of the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers. (IRT)

Discusses the implications of a case accepted for review by the U.S. Supreme Court. (MLF)

Reviews a book that analyzes teacher strikes in two small districts in Ohio. (IRT)

School principals are being pushed from below by militant teachers and court protected students, while being pressured from above by harried superintendents and accountability-conscious board members. The middle part of the 1970's may well be the last chance for maintaining principals as an integral part of the management of the schools.…

Describes how the funds and fury of a State teacher union failed to force a rural school board to give in to the demands of illegally striking teachers. (Author)

Discusses proposed Congressional legislation that would assign to the Federal Government the role of final arbitrator between school boards and teachers. (JF)