A questionnaire about inservice teacher education options (partial-pay leave, no-pay leave, other) received 1,363 responses (58%) from Hong Kong teachers. More than 93% supported partial pay, a higher percentage than in two previous surveys. Some supported no-pay leave but 82% thought it was difficult to obtain. (Contains 24 references.) (SK)

Reports a survey of 41 school districts, discussing teacher employment applications and interviews as representative of attitudes and behaviors that school districts desire in potential employees, and their relevance and usefulness to preservice education students. (SR)

Discusses the situation of part-time writing program faculty at the University of North Dakota and a research project undertaken to understand their situation. Suggests that such research, undertaken locally and shared with a local audience, can complement broad based reform initiatives like the Wyoming Resolution and the CCCC Statement of…

The current recession in the United States imperils teachers' jobs and school reform. States are prioritizing increased spending in such areas as health care and transportation rather than educational improvement. The article discusses specific educational hard times in several states and counties. (SM)

Discusses the need to distinguish between the person filling the position and the position itself in examining all the issues and concerns surrounding the employment of non-tenure-line faculty, lecturers, instructors, and adjuncts. Concludes that educators must focus efforts upon the entire body of non-tenure-line faculty, striving to create…

Provides statistical demographic profiles of teachers in public, Catholic, and private schools. Presents measures of average teachers' professionalism, and numbers of teachers by age who are leaving the profession. Focuses on the percentage of schools that offer benefits, and the teacher attitudes regarding teaching conditions. Lists the…

Considers how decisions about curriculum, hiring, and institutional policies have changed due to increasing regulatory, legal, and financial pressures conflicting with ever-magnifying and multiplying sense of need. Identifies three dominant models of institutional governance--models that represent different emphases and that, for the purposes of…

Presents a discussion one year after the author received a tenure-track job and describes the strategies and tactics that made her search a success. Discusses certain strategies that candidates conducting a local search can employ to maximize their credentials and opportunities. (SG)

The first of two sections discusses two major factors compelling a rethinking of school finance: standards-based education and the shift from equity to adequacy in school-finance litigation. The second section summarizes five compilations of research findings related to these two factors. (PKP)

Nearly half of all new teachers leave the job within five years. What is killing their spirit? How can they be convinced to stay? This article attempts to answer such questions in presenting one person's account of why she left the teaching profession. Statistical data relating to teacher employment and turnover; reasons for leaving among…

With the ongoing reform of higher education there has been a breaking down of the egalitarianism whereby everyone receives the same rewards for their work regardless of their performance, which has been intrinsic to the disposition of teachers practiced by higher education institutions. Discrepancies have come into being in the wages, allowances…

The collective bargaining agreement between the College of Insurance and the college's chapter of the American Association of University Professors covering the period September 10, 1987-August 31, 1990 is presented. Items covered in the agreement include: unit recognition, management rights, grievance and arbitration, strikes/lockouts, no…

Intended to test the feasibility of job-sharing in Hawaii's schools, this project was set up to provide job sharing of one hundred teaching positions on a fifty-fifty basis between experienced tenured teachers and new hires. The report describes the purpose and intent of the project; defines job sharing; establishes tentative guidelines for…

The appearance of Proposition 13, the Jarvis/Gann property tax limitation initiative, on the ballot in California in 1978 provoked legislators and educators alike to predict disastrous effects on education should the measure pass. Pass it did, and after the state went through a period of redistributing funds and the school districts reorganized…

Discusses five critical imperatives for public managers confronted with the rising expectations of public employees for participation in decisions affecting their employment. (Available from Public Personnel Management, Room 240, 1313 East 60th Street, Chicago, IL 60637; $15.00 annually) (Author/JG)