ED410225 SP037500
Title: America's Teachers: Profile of a Profession, 1993-94.
Author(s):
Henke, Robin R.; And Others
Author Affiliation: MPR Associates, Berkeley,
CA.(BBB21249)
Pages: 439
Publication Date: July 1997
Notes: For the 1993 report updated here, see ED 359 185.
Sponsoring
Agency: National Center for Education Statistics (ED), Washington, DC.
(EDD00004)
Report No: NCES-97-460
ISBN: 0-16-049146-0
Available
from: EDRS Price MF01/PC18 Plus Postage.
Availability: U.S. Government
Printing Office, Superintendent of Documents, Mail Stop:
SSOP, Washington,
DC 20402-9328.
Language: English
Document Type: Numerical/Quantitative
Data (110); Reports--Research (143)
Geographic Source: U.S.; District
of Columbia
Journal Announcement: RIEDEC1997
Government Level:
Federal
This report
presents national data on teachers and teaching from the Schools and Staffing
Survey (SASS) and other sources. Where data permit, the report compares findings
from the
early to mid-1990s with findings from the 1980s. The report addresses
a wide range of topics
related to teachers and teaching, including teachers'
demographic characteristics and various
characteristics of their schools and
students, teachers' preparation and professional
development experiences,
teachers' workloads, teaching practices, compensation, perceptions
of work
environments and job satisfaction, and the supply and demand of teachers. Detailed
tables, standard error tables, and technical notes are included in appendices.
(Contains 108
references.) (ND)
Descriptors: *Compensation
(Remuneration); Educational Environment; Elementary Secondary
Education;
Faculty Workload; *Job Satisfaction; Preservice Teacher Education; Tables
(Data); *Teacher Characteristics; Teacher Salaries; *Teacher Supply and Demand;
*Teachers;
*Teaching Conditions; Teaching Methods
Identifiers:
Schools and Staffing Survey (NCES); *United States
