Teachers as a group are dependent upon the community for the conditions of their profession. The current unrest among teachers is indicative of a need for a "Bill of Rights' for this group. (CK)

Examines how teacher power manifests itself at the national level and at the local level of both the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association. (IRT)

Discusses what was discovered by "Journal of Blacks in Higher Education" staff who sat in on some of Dr. Leonard Jeffries' classes following his freedom of speech court victory against City College of New York. Observations disclose that racially biased and controversial topics are presented in part by Jeffries' lecturers and by his…

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

Presents the full texts of two Supreme Court cases dealing with maternity leaves. (JF)

Boards of education should undertake the process of devising acceptable grievance procedures with great care and with the most expert advice available. A sensible, workable, and fair system is most likely to evolve if the board takes the initiative rather than waiting for demands by the teachers' associations. (WM)

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

The present study compared the effects of content, process, and passive types of third party intervention on the bargaining behavior of pairs of group representatives. The setting was a simulated school board-teacher's union dispute over a new contract. Each side was represented by one person who was instructed to bargain tenaciously and obtain as…

This pamphlet presents a statement of principles by the American Civil Liberties Union concerning the civil liberties and obligations of teachers and desirable procedures involving academic freedom in public and private colleges and universities. Academic freedom and responsibility of teachers embraces two distinct areas: (1) the conduct of a…

This study was undertaken to explore the potential role the Office of Education could play in helping urban universities respond more appropriately than they have in the past to urban problems. It was assumed that urban crises have created new imperatives for all urban universities and urban universities face pressures from both acknowledged and…

This study discusses faculty attitudes toward collective bargaining, including collective negotiations, sanctions, and withholding of faculty services. The purpose was to determine whether faculty members' perceptions of their capacities for power and mobility were related to their expression of relatively favorable or unfavorable attitudes toward…

The basic concern of this paper is to identify those demographic, occupational, and organizational variables that might differentiate between those professions that have higher levels of attitudinal militancy from those that exhibit less militancy. Semantic differential attitudinal data was collected from 414 teachers in two school districts and…

A questionnaire survey was made of 414 teachers and 482 registered nurses from three hospitals in western New York. The purpose of the survey was to investigate variation between teachers and nurses, the reasons for their attitudinal militancy, and why teachers are more militant than nurses. (DS)