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-----Original Message----- 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 To: [log in to unmask] 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 > > > >