This study investigated how teachers and their unions reconciled the competing criteria of legitimacy to which they were held accountable (unionism and professionalism), comparatively analyzing peer review-based teacher education programs/policies and the districts and unions supporting them. Researchers examined documentary artifacts for programs…

Frustrated by the repeated delays in the release of the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) Charter School Report and knowing that the data were collected in 2003, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) decided to try to unearth the basic NAEP charter school results. Embedded in the questionnaire that was administered to schools…

The purpose of this bulletin is to describe the current status of proposals for formalizing negotiation procedures between teachers and their boards of education, indicating some potential trends. The entire issue of collective negotiation by teachers remains of relatively recent origin in terms of interest on a national scale, and the directions…

The International Labour Organization is concerned with three types of education: vocational training, management training, and workers' education. The last, which is the focus of the article, is concerned solely with social matters. (MS)

Based on executive order 11491 dealing with continued recognition of the collective rights of Federal employees, a systems model for labor management negotiations is developed. The evolution of the collective bargaining system is diagramed schematically and is being tested with the Air Force system of industrial relations. (DS)

There is no problem in book buying during peak periods at the Fredonia Store at the State University of New York; the manager uses a temporary spacious room set aside for book "rushes" during registration periods. (PG)

Presents the Tulane University Bookstore Manual of Operations that covers all phases of the bookstore operations with faculty, students, and administrators. (Author)

Attitude survey techniques used in the study enable management to identify dissatisfaction in advance of visible signs of unrest and take corrective action. (MS)

Explores present and possible future uses of the union model for students in their roles as university employees, as students, and as a third party affected by staff-university or faculty-university collective bargaining. (Editor)

Analyzes the likely determinants of a trade union's policy regarding race and estimates the effect of the presence of unionism on the average wage of black workers relative to that of white workers under various types of union organizational structure. (RJ)

The question arises whether the effects of collective bargaining in the public sector will resemble the consequences for private enterprise. Using assumptions drawn from private sector experience, this study investigated the impact of collective bargaining on the school principal from the perspectives of rules orientation, status anxiety, role…

Flexible department space in a college bookstore uses valuable shelf space year round and generates extra sales. (PG)

Minimum maintenance and maximum use were the prime objectives in the design of Northwestern University's Norris University Center. (Author)