This article examines the salary trajectory of teachers as they move up the career ladder into leadership positions. The issue of compensation is set in the context of a principal shortage that has been widely reported and discussed in the literature. Urban schools are shown to experience the principal shortage differently from rural schools.…

The purpose of this study was to examine and describe the environmental factors that influence an undergraduate music education major's investment in instrumental techniques courses taught by a graduate teaching assistant. Each participant (three undergraduate music education majors and three teaching assistants) submitted to being interviewed…

The founding fathers of the new Jewish community in "Eretz Yisrael" (the Land of Israel, or Palestine) as well as many philosophers, public figures, educators and authors both in Israel and in the Diaspora were preoccupied with the image of the new Israeli Hebrew. The educational system was seen as an instrument to create the "new…

This article consists of excerpts from the author's diary during her student teaching experience which she found to be very different from what she expected as a result of her training. (HMD)

A teacher describes his finding of that golden moment that affirms he has chosen the right profession. (JA)

The superintendent of West Bloomfield schools (Orchard Lake, Michigan) finds that the hours he spends visiting and teaching classes have the highest rate of return (on a cost-benefit basis) of any single activity. (Author/WM)

The success of a teaching associate, a new instructional position in a small liberal arts college, is described. (Editor/PG)

A satirical letter from an experienced teacher to a former student, congratulating him on his first teaching assignment and offering sagacious advice. (JB)

A book concerned with the learning environment is reviewed. (DB)

Provides a short summary of the life of an award-winning English teacher. (JL)

Recounts personal experience tutoring Vietnamese students learning English. (HOD)

An experienced faculty member and a relatively new one describe a semester spent in a mentoring partnership in which each taught a section of the same course. They reflect on the lessons the experience might hold for other mentor-mentee pairs. (SLD)

Examines Robert Frost's teaching career, which lasted from 1893 to 1912. Discusses his extreme dislike of teaching, resulting in nervous exhaustion on several occasions, and his teaching innovations, which involved students writing about their own experiences and ideas, and reading aloud for expression and the sound of language. (SV)