This research into American social history examines educational institutions and educators of the 19th century. The central organization of the study is the American Institute of Instruction, founded in 1830 and surviving until 1908. This organization provided a medium for discussion and examination of significant educational experiments in the…

Teacher organizations believe that the teaching profession must govern itself. They are therefore requesting professional commissions in every state to set standards for teacher education. They desire involvement in the planning and implementation of teacher education programs. Teacher organizations feel strongly about competency based teacher…

This publication presents data gathered in a survey of the impact of collective bargaining on Illinois school districts. In September 1974, the Illinois Association of School Boards mailed a three-part questionnaire to the superintendent of each of its 932 member school districts. Completed questionnaires were returned by 739 districts,…

Migrant farmworkers suffer from low wages, seasonal work, unemployment, limited coverage under labor legislation, health and housing needs, low skill levels, and undereducation. These are further complicated by their high mobility and, in many instances, by language and cultural differences. Prior to 1962, no significant legislation or programs…

The first part of this learning package is a workbook designed to help teachers understand the concept of self-governance and appreciate the position that professional self-regulation is necessary to serve educational goals and teacher needs. Five units explore different aspects of the issue through pretest questions and answers, instructional…

This paper deals with the inservice education of teachers by first defining the concept and presenting a brief history of inservice education. The prospects for change in inservice education are traced. Wisconsin documents relevant to inservice education are summarized, including the law, the administrative code, a task force report, and a…

In the process of developing a coherent bargaining position, the school board's chief negotiator functions as a group leader, responsible for controlling behavioral dynamics so that the school board is productive and cohesive. Dissonance and dissent are expected components of the position-formulating process, and the negotiator should be…

Successful collective bargaining and, if necessary, strike management, requires careful planned communication strategies and programs before, during, and after, if the school system is to maintain the public's confidence. This handbook is designed to provide guidelines for the educational administrative team in developing a communication plan that…

Three papers from a half-day seminar which formed part of a meeting of the World Confederation of Organizations of the Teaching Profession have been compiled in this document. An Overview of Adult Education in England and Wales and the Role of the Professional Education Association by E. W. Foulser touches on the absence of a pattern in the…

In a relatively short period of time, language teaching has been inundated with audio-lingual technique, descriptive linguistics, contrastive analysis, structural linguistics, immediate-constituent analysis, transformational-generative linguistics, the Roberts Series, contrastive rhetoric, bilingualism, and bidialectalism. It takes a teacher's…

This document discusses (1) the method of determining who shall be involved in educational policymaking, (2) the forces that currently control educational policymaking, (3) the forces that are intruding on educational government, and (4) the ways these intruding forces can be utilized to strengthen democracy and to help resolve some of the…

In response to a nationwide trend toward restructuring the teaching profession and redefining the role of the teacher, this paper suggests a position on developments in these areas. It rejects the idea of establishing hierarchical levels of teacher certification, but considers promising the movement toward vertical or horizontal differentiated…

Because of the advent of collective negotiations, public education will never again be completely in control of local school boards. Collective negotiations will probably improve the quality of education to the extent that quality (higher salaries, smaller classes, better working conditions, etc.) coincides with the self-interest of teachers. The…

To understand the effect of the union contract upon the leadership behavior of the urban principal, teacher-principal relationships in New York City were examined via observational and survey techniques. Gouldner's model of types of rule administration served as the impetus for the following central hypotheses: (1) Mock rule administration would…

This survey of school district evaluation practices reveals the new trend toward involvement of teachers in the establishment of evaluation programs. The report explores such issues as the goals of an evaluation system, who does the evaluating, how evaluators are trained, how evaluation results are used, the kinds of evaluation data that are…