A questionnaire on intrinsic/extrinsic rewards received 362 responses from 380 managers. Pay and security were greater motivators for private than for public sector managers. Recognition had higher motivating potential in the public sector. Both groups were motivated by achievement and advancement. (SK)

Surveys women student affairs professionals to determine their satisfaction with the student affairs profession, their perceptions of sex discrimination, and the relationship between perceptions of sex discrimination and career satisfaction. Results indicate that satisfaction with the student affairs profession appears to be related to perceptions…

Describes problems related to two approaches to teacher-centered school reform: Wholesale restructuring and incremental modification. (PKP)

Provides the biography of E. Mavis Hetherington and announces that she has received the APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions (2004) for her outstanding contributions to understanding the family context of children's and adolescents' development and adaptation. A selected bibliography is also provided.

Teacher leadership represents a powerful approach to assert the true professionalism that educators have long been seeking. Opportunities abound for teachers to contribute to school reform by demonstrating their leadership skills. This article considers strategies to rebuild the portrait of teachers and thereby encourage strong professional…

To explore professionalization of community college faculty, this study uses data from case studies of searches for full-time arts and sciences community college faculty. The author concludes that there is little evidence of a unique profession and that on a continuum of professionalization community college faculty are more professionalized than…

This article examines the transitions that occurred in the institutions of elementary teacher education in the province of Ontario, Canada, between 1960 and 1974. In that time period, elementary school teacher education moved from its historic location in a government institution to a university-based professional school. This article argues that,…

Peter B. Dews played a significant role in shaping the distinctive characteristics and defining the underlying principles of the discipline of behavioral pharmacology. His early and sophisticated use of schedules of reinforcement in the 1950s, incorporated from research in the experimental analysis of behavior and integrated into the discipline of…

Employing a large-scale sample of 521 BSW students from 4 Israeli schools of social work, this research examines the factors affecting social work students' interest in working with a wide range of client groups. The results suggest that student interest in working with specific client groups is affected by factors related to desire for…

Laptop computing programs have been in K-12 schools since the 1990s, but in recent months one-to-one learning seems to have reemerged as a top topic in education technology circles. According to Tim Wiley, senior analyst at research firm Eduventures, about 1,000 of the 15,000 school districts in the United States currently have one-to-one…

This paper examines the question of whether the construct of professionalization is a helpful instrument to assist teachers in achieving an acknowledged place and status in German society. The concept of professionalization as it is used in an everyday pedagogical context and in the context of various academic disciplines is analyzed, and the…

Elite values and role perceptions are analyzed for their impact on the determination of public expenditures. A sample of 51 public school policy-makers in six suburbs confirm that social-class point of view and political ideology are of less significance than formal and informal role constraints and dependence on technical expertise. (JH)

Three generations of farm families have benefited from the knowledge and talents of Virgil Telfer, Martinsville, Indiana, High School vocational agriculture teacher for 46 years. (Author/MW)

The success and perhaps the survival of occupational therapy may well depend upon our ability to identify clearly our product and services. (Author/JA)

This article examines the question of student over-familiarity with student teachers, especially in the practice of addressing student teachers by a proper name without benefit of the prefix "Mr.,""Mrs.,""Miss," or even "Ms." (Author/JA)