A mail questionnaire study involving 3,000 Texas educators was undertaken to describe the effects of certain Texas education reform policies as they relate to teacher burnout. Focus was on determining how the production of teacher-required paperwork and mandated student achievement testing influence teacher burnout. An initial mailing resulted in…

Statistics from a national survey of public and private elementary and secondary school teachers are presented. A descriptive analysis identifies similarities and differences between the two groups of teachers. Two general questions provided the focus of the survey: (1) To what extent do public and private school teachers differ with regard to…

Designed to determine to what extent the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) products and services are utilized by certified school personnel, this study found that, on the average, 25.1% of the teachers, librarians, counselors, and administrators in three educational service regions in west central Illinois have used Resources in…

Teaching and learning processes are complex acts that take place within a complex social institution--the school. Three categories of influences on the teaching/learning process in public schools are presented: external organizations, external social forces, and internal forces in the schools. The external forces considered are: the Supreme Court…

The Michigan State University Institute for Research on Teaching, an aggregate of public school teachers and full-time investigative personnel, came under review by a one-day conference of teachers, teacher organization representatives, educational researchers, and state and federal government officials. Discussion topics that arose from the…

A serious problem for retired teachers is the decreasing buying power of their retirement benefit. Older teachers who have been retired for 10 years or more face serious economic problems because of low salaries in the past, weak benefit formulas, lost service credit by teachers who moved from one State to another during their teaching careers,…

A summer program enrolled 579 talented students. Regular admit students had higher aptitude test scores and grade point averages; special admit students, who came from inner city schools, manifested creative and artistic abilities and high motivation. Courses were offered in the arts, the humanities, foreign language, language arts, math and…

In the title, "Five Points on Site Teacher Education," the "On Site" refers to the transfer of education courses from academic settings to public secondary school locations; the "five points," to a specific geographic design through varied racial or ethnic areas. Theory and practice are consistently interrelated, and…

This 25th annual NEA survey of public school teacher supply and demand estimates that the supply of qualified teachers is generally adequate, although shortages exist in some areas. To supplement these estimates, surveys were made in State departments of education and in 71 of the country's 80 largest school systems. Shortages occurred in…

Finds that whereas the Atlanta public school teachers were, in 1881, a rather elite group, by 1896 the system was both re-orienting its secondary school curricula to serve an increasingly middle-class student body and hiring more middle class teachers, while in the twentieth century the system turned to teachers with higher levels of training but…

Patterns of violence in the public schools are examined, and possible solutions to the problem are offered. (JD)

Public school teachers (N=68), reading the same vignette about a gifted child (alternately nonlabeled or labeled as learning-disabled or physically-handicapped) and expressing opinions regarding possible placement in a gifted program, felt that nonlabeled and physically-handicapped students should be placed in a gifted program to a greater degree…

This paper is the 10th in a series of biannual surveys of Texas public school teachers that began in 1980 to examine teacher characteristics (including their feelings about moonlighting). Participating teachers were selected using a computerized systematic sample from a population of 100,000 members of the Texas State Teachers Association. For the…

This study examines the unionization rates of teachers in traditional government, charter, and private schools to determine how school choice might affect school employee labor unions, including the Michigan Education Association and the Michigan Federation of Teachers. The findings of this study reveal that unions have powerful financial…