Papers

Click on the titles of the following papers to access the individual papers.

Education Neglect: A Brief Examination--

ISAT: A test that could have been--

Looking Down the Road: Idaho's New Model of Professional Development--

Idaho Economic Fellows Institute:  Preparing Economic Educators for a New Era -- (Paper Presentation at the 2001 Annual Conference of the National Council of Economic Educators) A summary report of a program evaluation of a three-year interdisciplinary Masters degree program, the Idaho Economic Fellows Institute.  The analysis clearly supports this model as a method of increasing both teacher understanding of content area and K-12 student understanding of course materials. 

Teacher Unionism and Professionalism:  An Institutional Analysis of Peer Review Programs and the Competing Criteria for Legitimacy -- (Michigan State University, Dissertation Director - Gary Sykes)  My Dissertation.  It is a comparative and theoretical analysis of the phenomenon of teacher peer review within a unionized workforce. 

Making Space Between a Rock and a Hard Place:  Teachers’ Efforts at Reconciling Competing Criteria for Legitimacy -- (Paper Presentation at 1998 AERA Annual Meeting)  A theoretical paper advancing neoinstitutionalism as a mechanism to explain organizational change within public schools and teachers' unions. 

A Comparative Analysis of Teacher Peer Review Programs in Four Urban Districts:  Professional Unionism in Action -- (Paper Presentation at 1998 AERA Annual Meeting)  A practical paper for those interested in the phenomenon of teacher peer review.  It examines four of the most prominent peer review programs in the country, highlighting both strong and weak points.  It concludes with recommendations for further implementation of peer review.

The Inherent Difficulties of Teacher Peer Review Within a Unionized Workforce:  Analysis of a Case -- (Paper Presentation at Sixth Annual National Evaluation Institute, 1997) An analysis of the 1995 cancellation of the Intern-Intervention Program of the Toledo Federation of Teachers.

Teaching as a Profession? -- A paper written to explore the status of teaching as a profession.

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Philip P. Kelly
Department of Curriculum, Instruction, and Foundational Studies
Boise State University