Based on a survey of State education agencies (SEAs), this study gathered quantitative and qualitative information about the roles SEAs assume in teacher collective negotiations at the State and district levels. Variations in State laws and in SEA role responsibilities created research problems. The results indicate that SEAs most frequently…

The five speeches contained in this document all address the general problem of productivity in education. Most of the speeches focus on the productivity issue at the state level, but individual speeches also deal with the question of the applicability of the private sector's methods of increasing productivity to the public sector, the research…