This is the fifth Annual Report resulting from North Carolina's 1993 Safe Schools Act, a legislative initiative that requires schools to report to the State Board specified acts of disruption, crime, or violence. To generate the report, data were collected from all regular public schools in North Carolina via their central offices. The report…

Appraises developments at censured institutions for the year preceding February 15, 1974. Included are: Alabama State University, Texas A&M University, Amarillo College, Broward Community College, Indiana State University, Detroit Institute of Technology, University of Florida, Grambling College, Marshall University and 29 other institutions. (PG)

Describes the budget cut at Southern Illinois University, resulting in the firing of 104 faculty and staff members, and a class-action suit against 6 of the dismissed teachers. (Author/PG)

This study was part of a doctoral dissertation, and reports science teaching practices, procedures, policies, and conditions in elementary public schools of the Central and Far West United States. Trends in teacher preparation and elementary school science practices over the last decade are reported. (JR)

A former associate professor at an Ivy League school describes his impressions of teaching at a community college. (PG)

Author looks at the question of what is behind the constant movement of junior high school music teachers. (Editor/MB)

Article deals with the teachers' problems in teaching in an open classroom, stressing the fact that teachers presently are not trained to teach this way. (ML)

The social, economic, and educational background of Jamaican students is presented to show the difficulties of trying to teach physics. (DS)

Although more media specialists are working outside public school systems, they share many basic competency areas with their school-based counterparts. Teacher education can accommodate diverse requirements if it focuses on: (1) audience; (2) objectives; (3) content; (4) media selection; (5) media production; (6) media presentation; (7)…

The Marvick (1954) job factors questionnaire was given to approximately 300 adult education teachers in Georgia during October 1978-March 1979. Teachers are more concerned about skill factors of their jobs than they are about benefits. Reactions to both task- and benefit-oriented job factors provided suggestions to employers for staff and job…

Provides suggestions for developing classroom environments in which all students can flourish, despite educational handicaps. (MA)

This essay explores the importance of the classroom environment on teaching and learning, and suggests a framework for conducting further research in the field. (LH)

Interviews with participants in the Alum Rock Voucher Project revealed that the effects of a voucher system on teachers were varied and profound: greater teacher autonomy but increased responsibilities; more within-program cohesion but increased competition between programs; and greater parent involvement, requiring teachers to improve…

Some Scottish teachers voluntarily change sector from secondary to primary or vice versa, requiring them to take a shortened training ("conversion") course and assume probationary status. This paper analyzes 122 teachers' career-change motives, distinguishing between strategic reasons (more jobs in the new sector) and magnetic reasons…