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Texas teachers spend more)
time beyond the classroom
AUSTIN (AP) — Teachers are
bending under the weight of 56-
hour work weeks and should have
their days restructured so they
only spend half their time in the
classroom, the Texas State
Teachers Association says.
The teacher group, releasing a
survey on Texas educators’ work
day, said the rest of their work
week should be spent on expand
ed professional responsibilities.
“Teachers need time to devel
op effective lessons, talk to stu
dents and listen to them, to confer
with parents much more fre
quently, to study professional
journals, to interact with col
leagues, and to watch outstanding
teacher demonstrations,” said
TSTA President Richard Kouri.
The group surveyed 1,000 ran
domly selected teachers, drawing
811 responses.
The survey, which has a margin
of error of plus or minus three
percentage points, said the aver
age teacher is spending 55.82
hours per week doing “just the
essentials” of the job.
That includes 7.91 hours a day
at school; 2.12 hours each
evening, and 3.76 hours each
weekend, on school work; less
than an hour a week calling par
ents; and just over an hour weekly
in faculty meetings.
Sixty-two percent of those sur
veyed said paperwork require
ments are growing compared with
three years ago.
Sixty-four percent said they
spent more time on school work
beyond the regular school day.
‘The critical shortage of time
to plan, reflect, collaborate with
other educators, conduct
research and maintain a person
al life represents the most chal
lenging problem in schools
today,” Kouri said.
“It is the chief reason cited by
teachers as cause for leaving the
profession altogether.”
The time crunch will
have “disastrous conse
quences” on efforts to
reform Texas schools,
he said.
“If teachers are
spending 56 hours a
week just doing their
job, it logically follows I
that time to be active
participants in restruc- i
turing schools just isn’t i
available,”Kouri said
“The losers are the citizens of
this state and the children we
teach.”
Barbara Williams of the Texas
Association of School Boards said
she recognizes that teachers “do
work hard and have a hard job."
But she questioned how the
recommendation for teachers
spending less time in the class
room would work.
“Who would then be han
dling the instruction? Would
they be certified? There’s a
shortage of teachers in some
areas already.” Williams said.
“For us, the bottom line would
be what’s best for the students.”
As for hiring more certified
teachers, Williams added,
“Where does the money come
from? The districts are already
tight for money.”
TSTA spokeswoman Annette
Cootes said the recommenda
tion is a long-range goal.
finding ways to relieve teai
in the classroom to allow
such activities as teacherti
ing.
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Among other recommei
tions by the association are:
— Increased availability
technology, including, at a
mum, a computer on.
teacher’s desk and a telephoi
every' classroom.
— Increased efforts byct
munity, social and governm
tal agencies to help with pi
lems that affect students’
to learn.
The group said with change
society, teachers now have ir
responsibility for addressing
things as health and safetyna
of low-income children.
— More authority by teact
to control learning time, based
student needs, rather than
“trapped in a system thatisdri'
by the schedule.”
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WACO (AP) — A number of Baylor University
faculty members are accusing newly installed
President Robert Sloan of weeding out those
who don’t meet his strict religious standards,
the Texas Journal of The Wall Street Journal
reported Wednesday.
They say professors have been denied tenure,
lecturers fired and job candidates run off for not
being sufficiently devout, the newspaper said.
Critics say Sloan’s attempts to create a conser
vative religious atmosphere threaten to damage
the Baptist-affiliated university’s reputation and
stifle intellectual freedom.
‘The new president has an interest in having
an ever-stronger Christian evangelical religious
fervor on campus,” Michael Bishop, chairman of
Baylor’s journalism department, said.
“He wants to select faculty members who
come out of a narrow Baptist tradition that he’s
comfortable with, but that is foreign to the his
toric tradition of Baylor. ... I believe that religious
credentials under Robert Sloan have surpassed
in importance academic qualifications.”
Sloan, 47, says nothing has changed in the
year since he took the helm.
“Baylor for 151 years has been committed to
its Christian heritage,” he says. “I have the same
commitment that every one of my predecessors
has had.”
Baylor, the largest Baptist university in the
nation, is legally free to choose its faculty based
on religious criteria and always has done so, giv
ing preference first to Baptists, then to other
Christian denominations except Mormons.
In recent decades, however, many church-
affiliated universities have grown more secular,
partly to cultivate their academic reputations.
Baylor has been no exception.
When Sloan — the first Baptist minister to
head the school in 34 years — allowed the school
to hold its first-ever dance in April, it widely was
viewed as a sign that Baylor was falling even
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a Baylor alumna and former professor who now
practices law in Waco.
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rect,” says Glenn Linden, a Southern Methodist
University history professor and former presi
dent of the American Association of Universit)
Professors in Texas.
Baylor Alumni Association President Lyndon
Olson is concerned the turmoil will detract fr
fund-raising.
The controversy, he says, “has a life of
own now. And I don’t know what the reality is
this point.”
Sloan’s predecessor, Herbert Reynolds, had*
reputation as a critic of fundamentalists art
defender of academic and religious freedom,
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has “high regard for our faculty and staff here.’
Sloan proposed changing the wording of facol
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Baylor’s preference for hiring Baptists
Christians.
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academic credentials.
The Faculty Senate issued a statement
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reduce the academic quality of the faculty.”
Sloan canceled the ads, but in a letter to
prospective faculty members, he spends
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