Used 1969-78 data from St. Louis, Missouri, to: (1) examine mean annual salaries of full time teachers in metropoolitan St. Louis; (2) build a surrogate salary schedule by using certain combinations of training and experience; and (3) follow individuals through up to 10 years to determine their salary gains relative to inflation. (Author/GC)

These interviews, edited from tapes made in the field, convey, albeit optimistically, the harsh realities of poverty and withal, the resilience and strength that some elderly can clearly muster. (Author)

Four stages of teacher burnout (survival, transition, creativity, and burnout) are considered, and a strategy of personal growth for teachers of severely handicapped, autistic children is suggested. (CL)

Results indicated a relatively low degree of user acceptance. There was strong support for the relationship between user acceptance, perceived friendship bias, and perceived feedback value. (Author)

Automated management information systems (MIS) process a great deal of data at a relatively low cost. Staff involvement is vital to the success of any MIS. Designers must consider how information moves in the organization and coordinate the system design with this movement. (JAC)

The natural conflict in a governmental system of checks and balances has a ripple effect, beginning with the low morale in Washington offices and ending with the recipients of program funds. A new Department of Education will not alter the problem. (Author/IRT)

Explores the self-concepts of single and married women. Single women had more psychiatric symptoms, valued personal growth and achievement, and were higher on assertion and poise. Married women were more likely to identify with kinship roles and household activities. (Author)

Two hundred forty deaf education professionals completed an inventory on burnout, career motivation, and job satisfaction. Teachers of deaf students were more likely to experience burnout than teachers of nonhandicapped children and teachers aged 27 through 30 expressed the highest degree of emotional exhaustion. (CL)

Suggestions for personal development activities for teachers to serve as antidotes for teacher burnout and complacency are listed. (JMF)

Suggests that an important aspect of effective teaching is the teacher's own self-concept as a teacher and that programs for preservice education, student teaching, and beginning teaching should include affective components which promote the novice teacher's professional self-esteem. (SJL)

Suggests interdepartmental unity as a remedy for declining enrollment, low morale, and other modern problems of the liberal arts profession. (AM)

A new behavioral technology, self-management, is directed toward developing the capacity in clients to regulate their own behavior. Among the strategies are covert modeling and rehearsal, covert sensitization, and thought-stopping. Self-management techniques have been successful with placement activities, drug dependency, alcoholism, self-concept…

Teacher burnout is described as physical, emotional, and attitudinal exhaustion; and suggestions for coping with the symptoms of burnout are offered. (JMF)

Instruments and suggestions for evaluation of coaching staff are presented. (LH)

The pressures of the educational system have some relationship to student suicide; they should be evaluated and, in some ways, lightened. (JD)