"Dialogue" is a review of labor-management cooperation in public education, whose goal is to provide teachers, administrators, school boards, and labor relations practitioners with analyses of critical issues, information about current projects, reviews of relevant literature, and a variety of special features. Each issue is generally devoted to a single theme. This issue provides discussions of reduction in force (RIF) and teacher burnout. The first analysis begins by listing methods by which schools can best cope with RIF, but then focuses primarily on alternatives. These include early retirement, reduction of part-time help, job sharing, leaves of absence, giveback negotiations, and temporary layoffs. The subsequent discussion of teacher burnout provides a set of proposals for alleviating teacher stress. These include the following: (1) a program to help teachers generate special projects for sabbatical leaves; (2) self-help groups for teachers; and (3) stress management workshops. Footnotes are included for both essays. (TE)