This report presents findings from a forum held in 2000 with urban educators representing 15 districts nationwide. The forum, which was facilitated by educational researchers from Columbia University's Teachers College, shared best practices for reforming high poverty urban high schools and reviewed the Department of Education's "Transforming…

The high levels of anxiety, apprehension, and apathy of students in college algebra courses caused the instructor to create and test a variety of math teaching techniques designed to boost student confidence and enthusiasm in the subject. Overall, this proposal covers several different techniques, which have been evaluated by both students and the…

The purpose of this study was to investigate the perceptions of alienation among alternatively and traditionally certified teachers. A total of 228 teachers in grades K-12 from a public university offering both traditional certification (TC) and cooperative alternative certification (AC) graduate programs were assessed using the School Alienation…

This paper reviews the student teacher failure literature and describes a study on the causes of failure, noting implications for teacher education institutions. The study involved a systematic analysis of the files of student teachers who failed at one university from 1994-97. Failure of student teaching was defined as either choosing to quit…

This report examines international research and current educational publications about teacher workload and related stress. Workload issues have been a concern for Canadian teachers and teacher unions during recent years, with British Columbia's teachers reporting the highest stress levels nationwide. Teachers must juggle diverse, intense types of…

Author emphasizes that in open area schools it is the curriculum which is the crux of the matter of space usage. (Author/MB)

A criticism of the elitist nature of the geography profession is the focus of this paper. An edited and, according to the authors, censored version of the paper, published in the Journal of Geography, is also reprinted here. The journal is available from L. G. Wolf, 610 Foulke St., Cincinnati, OH 45220. (RM)

This article focuses on some of the humiliating practices forced on secondary teachers--practices which discourage and drive away productive and talented individuals. Included are: presence of nonlearners in the classroom, lack of opportunity for teacher participation in decision making, and lack of esteem given teachers by the public. (KC)

Being a professor today is not as attractive as it used to be because of the mediocre pay, the competition, and pressures. Attractions still associated with the professoriate are freedom of expression coupled with a degree of financial security. (JMF)

Maintains that schools are political as well as educational institutions because they control selection of what is taught, in what context, by whom, and for what purposes. Investigates perceptions of political restraint among preservice teachers based on their student teaching experiences. (Author/DB)

Recounts a veteran instructor's experiences with teaching new subjects, American literature and poetry writing, after many years away from graduate school. Muses about the reality of teaching undergraduates. Considers teaching as a rhetorical act and finds that learning is more likely to occur when teachers approach teaching as a rhetorical act…

Time pressures, meeting children's needs, dealing with nonteaching tasks, maintaining early childhood philosophy and practice, meeting personal needs, parent issues, interpersonal relationships, and attitudes and perceptions about early childhood programs were the major sources of stress that were identified in a study of eight Australian…

Examined the impact of local school management on teachers' work. Drawing on the narrative biography of a single Australian high school teacher as part of a larger multi-sited ethnography, revealed the level of policy incoherence to be such that most of the worst excesses of accountability and marketization accompanying local school management…

Synthesizes research on the work of charter school teachers, juxtaposing it with case studies of teachers in six urban elementary charter schools. Charter schools, with increased autonomy over personnel and budget, were free to make decisions regarding hiring, salary, and working conditions. Charter teachers worked longer hours with less job…

Many teachers feel overwhelmed about meeting the needs of students getting ready for tests, and about relations with principals. Four exceptionally high-stress factors that teachers admit carrying into their classrooms are money management, health, relationships, and care giving. A sidebar lists tips for administrators to help alleviate teachers'…