Shows that median salaries for Illinois teachers doubled in the 14-year period but that the Consumer Price Index increased 153 percent in the same period. Raises questions about the implications for low salaries on the teaching profession in the future. (FL)

Buffalo City (New York) Elementary Schools were assessed on perceptions of organizational stress, personal manifestations, and health status in an attempt to develop long-term stress management plans. Organizational and promotional strategies to enhance participant involvement are discussed. (Author/DF)

A former journalism advisor takes a tongue-in-cheek look at bothersome public address system interruptions in the classroom. (HTH)

This book explores new definitions of stress and its consequences, changing the context of stress through the discussion of far-reaching new discoveries about how to defuse it. The book focuses on what stress symptoms really indicate, how clutter obfuscates internal clarity, how to reframe relationships with other people as healing connections,…

This paper reviews the literature on teaching conditions, stress variables, and demands placed upon teachers, focusing on the situation in Belgium. Researchers examined whether and how teachers in Flemish elementary schools experienced intense, stressful, and negative working conditions, focusing on which forms of stressors and negative conditions…

This research reports on the characteristics of middle level teachers, their work environment, their professional and academic preparation, their leadership roles, and their competency levels as perceived by their principals. The research design was constructed as the third of three "decade studies" which focused on middle level schools and were…

Following up on an earlier national survey study of Canadian teachers' formal and informal learning, this study had 13 Ontario secondary teachers keep detailed logs of their day and evening activities, along with notations about what they may have learned as a result of engaging in each activity, for 7 consecutive days in late 1999, and again in…

In Board of Regents v. Roth, decided on June 29, 1972, the Supreme Court held that a professor at a state university, who was without tenure and serving on the basis of a one-year contract, had no constitutional right to a statement of reasons or to a hearing prior to the school's decision not to renew his contract. (Author)

Discusses 10 cases of nonreappointment of faculty at colleges and universities in the United States. (PG)

Describes the passing of intellectual and academic freedom in Chilean universities after the coup of September 11, 1972. (PG)

Collective bargaining can be used to provide more relevant and effective professional development of staff by emphasizing faculty competencies over activities. (RN)

Does less class time lead to improved teaching? Author says yes, and suggests several ways in which the classroom teacher's burden could be eased. (Author/SP)

Discusses journalism educators' attitudes toward teaching large classes and examines the various ways they deal with such classes. (FL)

Comments on the conditions under which substitute teachers work and outlines steps that teachers and principals can take to improve those conditions. Orientation programs, feedback, and increased pay are among the improvements that can be made. (IRT)