Discusses the calculus of role, organizational and status considerations that account for the origins of faculty discontent. (Author/RK)

Teachers should be taught to take leadership roles in the formulation of educational policy and practice in the school system. (JD)

The author expresses his concern about the effectiveness of teacher negotiations. He asks many basic questions about the process, and urges administrators to key roles in decision making. (Editor)

Discusses how increasing teacher militancy is altering school district decision-making and changing the role of superintendents and principals. (JG)

Dissatisfaction with several of the job and organizational context characteristics (especially with the campus administration) was a significant predictor of militancy, but demographic characteristics (sex, academic rank, tenure status, academic department, faculty organization membership) had almost no predictive value. (Author)

This paper presents a conceptual model for determining patterns of predecisional behavior of school administrators, and a method for empirical verification of the model through content analysis of subjects' responses to complex problem-solving situations. The discussion concerns the concept of the relationship among identifiable patterns of…

Over 500 items published between 1964 and 1967 are listed without annotation in seven categories as follows: Journal articles, 344; pamphlets, 64; special articles and monographs, 41; papers, addresses, and memoranda, 27; theses and dissertations, 16; audiovisual materials, 12; and books, 30. (JK)

Researchers looked at participation in decision-making as perceived by 2,056 teachers, principals, central office personnel, and superintendents in Tennessee. They also looked at both satisfaction in relation to six decision categories and attitudes toward unionization. Teachers' self-perceptions of participation in policy decision-making…

This report describes the historical process through which a public employer and the public employees in a school system ultimately reached a satisfactory level of mutual accommodation. Over a 20-year period, the gradual shift in the relative power of the parties produced a relationship from which at least some elements of conflict had been…

Significant junior college problems and research approaches to them are outlined in this conference report. Beside providing a comprehensive description of proceedings, the report presents the results of discussion groups made up of the conference participants. The participants in these discussion groups assumed themselves members of junior…

This report, considering the feasibility and effectiveness of educational objectives commissions, begins with a brief survey of the early history of such commissions, and then considers in more detail the work of commissions since 1935, when the NEA and the American Association of School Administrators established the Educational Policy Commission…

The objective of this study was to examine the interaction between professional and bureaucratic decisional environments in schools and discover the impact of this interaction on the processes of educational governance. A case study methodology was used to gather data; the analysis was conducted within a conceptual framework of organization…

At a time when schools must adapt to rapid change in the social and economic structure of the community, educational leaders tend to insulate themselves from political reality. The educational leader is responsible for balancing the two forces of politics and change, which pull at the school's resources in opposite directions. He must develop…

Teacher militancy in America has increased rapidly in the past decade, as evidenced by the rapid increase in teacher strikes. Teachers are frustrated by substandard salaries, lack of authority over teaching conditions, and absence of professional autonomy. Teachers demand greater participation in educational decisionmaking. Three models used in…