Teacher unions and education policy retrenchment or reform?

The American public has increasingly heard that teacher unions and quality education are contradictory terms and that unions are responsible for the failure of public schools. Many critics of the unions would cheerfully channel public funds to largely nonunion private and parochial schools as free m...

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Other Authors Henderson, Ronald D., Urban, Wayne J., Wolman, Paul
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Amsterdam ; London : Elsevier JAI, 2004.
SeriesAdvances in education in diverse communities : research, policy and praxis ; v. 3.
Subjects
Teachers' unions > United States.
Education and state > United States.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781849501262
1849501262
9780762308286
0762308281
ISSN1479-358X ;
DOI10.1016/S1479-358X(2004)3
Physical Description1 online resource (xxix, 270 p.)

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Table of Contents:
  • Editor's welcome / Carol Camp Yeakey
  • Introduction / Ronald D. Henderson, Wayne J. Urban, Paul Wolman
  • Teacher unions: continuity and change / Ronald D. Henderson
  • Paralysis or possibility: what do teacher unions and collective bargaining bring? / Susan Moore Johnson
  • Teacher unions: outcomes and reform initiatives / Randall W. Eberts, Kevin Hollenbeck, Joe A. Stone
  • The National Education Association's new bipartisanship / Diane Shust, Carrie Lewis
  • Teacher politics / Wayne J. Urban
  • Teacher unions and higher education: a policy impact perspective / Christine Maitland, Rachel Hendrickson
  • Innovative local teacher unions: what have they accomplished? / Christine E. Murray
  • Teacher union support of education research and development: traditions and new directions / Maris A. Vinovskis
  • Organizing around quality: the struggle to organize mind workers / Charles Taylor Kerchner, Julia Koppich
  • Toward international advocacy / Mary Futrell, Fred van Leeuwen, Bob Harris.

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