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Mehlinger, Howard D. – 1987
The creation of a National Commission for the Social Studies offers an extraordinary opportunity to reconsider the mission of social studies education and move in new directions. Defining what the social studies field should be will help to answer the question of what should be taught. Questions of what children can learn in the elementary school…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Improvement, Educational Innovation
Caulley, Darrel N. – 1982
Presented here are two models that can be used to solve distribution problems, such as assigning teachers to students, teachers to courses, or special students to schools. The models, the assignment model and the transportation model, are termed evaluation models under a definition of evaluation that delineates its function as that of serving…
Descriptors: Class Organization, Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education, Models
Snepp, Donald F. – Coll Composition Commun, 1969
Descriptors: College English, Current Events, Disadvantaged Youth, English Curriculum
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Stevens, Jody L. – Clearing House, 1969
Descriptors: Noninstructional Responsibility, School Aides, Staff Utilization, Teacher Aides
Ream, Marsha A. – 1977
This report presents data on the status of teachers in the school year l975-76 and on trends from l961 to l976. The sixty-two-item questionnaire used in this survey contains many items that are identical or closely similar to questions asked in one or more previous surveys. Data are analyzed with reference to the following characteristics of…
Descriptors: Economic Status, National Surveys, Public School Teachers, Social Status
Bamberg, Betty, Ed. – 1977
To gather data on English teacher workloads and the conditions for teaching composition in California schools, a survey was undertaken involving a statewide cross-section of 204 teachers from public and parochial schools. The findings show that in spite of the recommendation by the National Council of Teachers of English that English teachers be…
Descriptors: Class Size, English Instruction, Secondary Education, State Surveys
JOHNSON, MAURITZ; SCRIVEN, ELDON – 1967
USING DATA OBTAINED BY THE QUALITY MEASUREMENT PROJECT ON SOME 70,000 PUPILS, THIS STUDY ATTEMPTED TO PRODUCE EVIDENCE REGARDING THE INFLUENCE OF CLASS SIZE AND CLASS HOMOGENEITY ON ACHIEVEMENT GAINS IN GRADES 7 AND 8. A TOTAL OF 130 ENGLISH AND 135 MATHEMATICS CLASSES CLASSIFIED ACCORDING TO SIZE AND HOMOGENEITY WERE EXAMINED. THE READING…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Arithmetic, Class Size, English Instruction
BAKER, ORVILLE – 1968
IN APRIL 1967, THE ILLINOIS ASSOCIATION OF TEACHERS OF ENGLISH COMMITTEE ON TEACHER LOAD SENT OUT 870 QUESTIONNAIRES TO PUBLIC AND PAROCHIAL HIGH SCHOOLS IN ILLINOIS TO ASCERTAIN WHICH SCHOOLS DESERVE AN HONOR RATING FOR CONFORMING TO THE NCTE RECOMMENDATION OF A FOUR-COURSE LOAD AND A MAXIMUM OF 100 STUDENTS PER ENGLISH TEACHER. AN ANALYSIS OF…
Descriptors: After School Programs, English Instruction, Extracurricular Activities, High Schools
Saupe, Joe L. – 1979
An analysis is presented of the basic instructional productivity formula, PR = TL x CS, where PR is the index of productivity, TL is the index reflecting teaching load, and CS is the class-size index. Objectives of the analysis are to: extend the basic instructional productivity formula to include recognition of different types of instruction;…
Descriptors: Algebra, Class Size, Conference Reports, Cost Effectiveness
Wolff, Aline; And Others – 1978
Five articles concerning plans for the teaching of composition are contained in this monography published as part of an Illinois Office of Education project to respond to the need for materials written for classroom teachers of language arts. Aline Wolff encourages teachers to write themselves and to write with their students as they go through…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, English Instruction, Language Arts, Motivation Techniques
Heiss, Ann M. – 1968
There are approximately 350,000 full-time college and university professors of varied educational backgrounds distributed among 2,000 institutions differing in size, purpose and level. A college professor spends an average of 12 to 15 hours a week teaching and the remainder of his time preparing lectures, grading papers, keeping records, attending…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Educational Resources, Faculty, Graduate School Faculty
Andrew Lewis High School, Salem, VA. – 1967
Proposals are presented for curriculum improvement in secondary schools. These proposals resulted from a summer workshop on modular scheduling for secondary schools held in Salem, Virginia, and concern the following areas: (1) Team teaching, (2) various sized instructional groups, (3) grouping, (4) teacher load, (5) credits, (6) marking, (7)…
Descriptors: Class Size, Credits, Curriculum Development, Flexible Scheduling
Lombardi, John, Comp. – 1975
To acquaint the faculty and administrators with the scope and breadth of community college collective bargaining agreements, excerpts of selected topics are reproduced in this document without comment. On each topic two or three excerpts from different agreements are reproduced. The following topics are treated: (1) recognition of the employee…
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, College Faculty, Community Colleges, Contracts
Keene, T. Wayne – 1975
At a university of about 800 faculty members offering baccalaureate, masters, and doctorate programs a study was conducted to determine the relationships between recommended salary increases and evaluation of performance. Salary increase proposals were submitted for faculty by department chairpersons. Among other items of information, the…
Descriptors: Faculty Evaluation, Faculty Promotion, Higher Education, Merit Pay
New Ways to Work, Palo Alto, CA. – 1976
Under job sharing, two people share responsibility for one full-time position. Each person has a permanent, part-time job with salary and fringe benefits prorated according to hours worked. Job sharing has been available in some Bay Area school districts for the last four years. For this preliminary report, nine districts--Alum rock, Fremont,…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Fringe Benefits, Job Satisfaction, Partnership Teachers
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