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From: Open Lib/Info Sci Education Forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Blanche Woolls
Sent: Friday, January 22, 2010 6:53 PM
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Subject: Re: On learning about how to be a faculty member
Most teachers and teacher librarians are members of either NEA or AFT,
considered a union (bargaining unit).
Most teachers and teacher librarians make more than many professors in
academic institutions with only a masters degree. They do make a higher
salary (most districts have salary scales) with more education, but it
isn't required.
Blanche
On Thu, 21 Jan 2010, Karen Weaver wrote:
> Would those school librarians also be in a teachers union with retirement
> and benefits invested over the years ? Also, in the case of school
> librarianship, would the Ed.D or "PhD Lite" be more the career path in
> school librarianship?
> I was recently reading about :
> The Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate
>
> "Who we are: CPED members are institutions who are committed to working
> together to undertake a critical examination of the doctorate in education
> with a particular focus on the highest degree that leads to careers in
> professional practice."
>
> "Today, the EdD is perceived as "PhD-lite. More important than the public
> relations problem, however, is the real risk that schools of education are
> becoming impotent in carrying out their primary missions to prepare leading
> practitioners as well as leading scholars. The Carnegie Project on the
> Education Doctorate is working to ensure that the academy moves forward on
> two fronts: rethinking and reclaiming the research doctorate (the PhD) and
> developing a distinct professional practice doctorate (the P.P.D), whether
> we continue to call it an EdD or decide to give it another name."
> ---Lee S. Shulman, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
>
> "The PhD is to understand the world. The EdD is to change the world."
> --Gordon Kirk, University of Edinburgh
>
> from the website : http://cpedinitiative.org
>
> Duquesne University, School of Education is part of the Carnegie Project on
> the Education Doctorate.
>
> Best, Karen
> ~~~~~~~
> Karen Weaver, MLS, Adjunct Faculty, Cataloging & Classification, The iSchool
> at Drexel University, Philadelphia PA email: [log in to unmask]
> / Electronic Resources Statistician, Duquesne University, Gumberg
> Library,Pittsburgh PA email: [log in to unmask]
>
> "Work has a greater effect than any other technique of living in the
> direction
> of binding the individual more closely to society."
> --Sigmund Freud, Civilization and its
> Disconents
>
> On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 10:21 PM, Blanche Woolls <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> As someone who was often chided about my school library doctoral
> graduates not going into academia, their excuse was that they
> were usually making $30,000 to $40,000 more when they entered
> the doctoral program than the faculty teaching them with better
> benefits and they simply couldn't afford to "start all over" as
> an assistant professor. Those higher salaries were awaiting
> them. Most of them were able to exercise their more adult
> teaching roles by teaching part-time in a nearby university
> program.
>
> Blanche
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