| Teachers on Trial: Values, Standards, and Equity in Judging Conduct and Competence Subjects: Teachers -- Legal status laws etc. -- New York (State); Teachers -- Malpractice -- New York (State); Actions and defenses -- New York (State); Teachers on Trial is a study of 260 case decisions in New York State which tenured teachers were charged with incompetence or conduct unbecoming a professional. The author analyzes what, in the deciders' opinion, constituted conduct unbecoming and... Gross James A. : James A. Gross is Professor of Labor Relations, Law, and History at the ILR School, Cornell University. He is the author of A Shameful Business and editor of Workers' Rights as Human Rights , both from Cornell. |