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Teaching Reform and Union Reform.
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Kerchner, Charles T.; Mitchell, Douglas E. – Elementary School Journal, 1986
Reviews present labor statutes and examines three alternatives to current practices; proposes that teaching, by its nature, is not well administered by industrial standards or well adjudicated through industrial unionism. Suggests "professional unionism" as a means of effecting educational reform. (DR)
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Labor Relations
Career Ladders and Merit Pay: Capricious Fads or Fundamental Reforms?
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Rosenholtz, Susan J. – Elementary School Journal, 1986
Suggests that the latest calls for educational reform have come from politicians, not educators, and warns that merit pay is an ineffective means of improving the quality of teaching. Points out that career ladders may work well as incentives, but only under carefully regulated conditions. (DR)
Descriptors: Career Ladders, Educational Change, Educational Quality, Elementary Secondary Education