Discusses the impact on El Cerrito High School teachers of the bankruptcy of the Richmond Unified School District. Suggests that the teachers have lost the luxury of a moment to reflect. (RS)

A continuing need for comprehensive and timely information about the public school teachers of the United States led the National Education Association (NEA) Research Division in 1956 to develop the first of a series of surveys and subsequent reports covering various aspects of teachers' professional, family, and civic lives. The NEA has conducted…

This study examined the impact of substituting didactic instruction, face-to-face advisement, and conventional evaluation with distance-based delivery of content, electronic counseling, and online assessment. It analyzed the impact of distance learning demands on faculty teaching loads and computed the ideal class size for an online course.…

The Secondary School Curriculum and Staffing Survey (SSCSS) has been carried out every four to six years since 1965. The 2007 survey was carried out by the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER), on behalf of the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF). The aim of this survey was to create a picture of the secondary…

A comprehensive research project conducted by the Community College Section of the National Communication Association (NCA) investigated the status of communication education in U.S. community colleges. Contacts from 290 public community colleges in the U.S. responded to a survey targeting five areas of inquiry: (a) institutional, (b)…

Beyond some contracted minimum, salaried workers' hours are largely chosen at the worker's discretion and should respond to the strength of contract incentives. Accordingly, we consider the response of teacher hours to accountability and school choice laws introduced in U.S. public schools over the past two decades. Total weekly hours of full-time…

This article addresses teachers' use of their professional time. With the support of substantive grounded theories from two separate studies--focusing on two "invisible" parts of teachers' work: recesses and off-the-clock work--we aim to conceptualize some patterns in contemporary work of teachers and discuss them in the light of…

AT ALPENA COMMUNITY COLLEGE, A NORMAL TEACHING LOAD FOR ANY FACULTY MEMBER IS 14-16 SEMESTER HOURS, WITH 75-125 STUDENTS AND 2-3 PREPARATIONS. VARIATIONS FROM THE SCHEDULE ARE IN ACCORDANCE WITH SPECIFIC FORMULAS RELATING TO TOTAL MEMBERS OF STUDENTS, NUMBERS OF PREPARATIONS, ASSIGNMENT TO ENGLISH COMPOSITION CLASSES, NEW COURSES, AND CLASSES…

THE CALIFORNIA COORDINATING COUNCIL FOR HIGHER EDUCATION HAS SUGGESTED A 15-HOUR TEACHING LOAD IN JUNIOR COLLEGES. TO ASSIST IN FORMULATION OF A TEACHING LOAD POLICY FOR SPEECH ARTS INSTRUCTORS AT SAN DIEGO CITY COLLEGE, A QUESTIONNAIRE SENT TO 80 CALIFORNIA JUNIOR COLLEGES WAS USED TO GATHER INFORMATION ABOUT CURRENT PRACTICES. RETURNS FROM 67…

This paper deals with science laboratory assignments and physical education activity hours as aspects of the teaching load. The equation of laboratory and lecture hours was on a percentage figure, e.g., a one-to-one value was shown as 100% and two laboratory hours to one lecture hour was 50%. Seventy usable replies (from 79 inquiries) showed an…

In order to clarify policy on teacher load at College of the Mainland (COM), a special committee asked 46 Texas two-year colleges to submit their policies on faculty load (29 did so), selected three responding Texas two-year colleges for further interviews, conducted a literature review, profiled current loads at COM, and sent a questionnaire to…

Prior to fall 1974, faculty workload at Black Hawk College (Moline, Illinois) was determined on the basis of total semester hours taught. Now it is based on the equitable teaching load, as agreed upon by the department chairman and the faculty member, subject to administrative approval. This new method of computation is based on departmental goals…

This document investigates the measurement of faculty workload. Emphasis is placed on the uses and values of faculty workload studies, various methods of measuring faculty workload, including measures based on course inventories and faculty reports, recommended procedures for making a comprehensive faculty load analysis, and uses of faculty load…

This report presents tables representing the total faculty teaching workload at the Wisconsin State universities during the academic year 1970-71. The data were obtained from a Scholarly Activities Report filed by faculty members in February 1971. The average total weekly hours range from 56 hours for professors to an average of 41 hours for…

Institutions granting 4-year or higher degrees were asked in 1970-71 to supply basic information about faculty load policies and practices. Responses were received from 1,101 institutions that employed 222,053 faculty. The most frequently reported base used to define faculty load is the semester hour, followed by the quarter hour and contact hour.…