Conflicting missions? : teachers unions and educational reform / Tom Loveless, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Loveless, Tom, 1954-

Peterson, Paul E.

Brookings Institution.

Program on Education Policy and Governance (Harvard University)

Taubman Center for State and Local Government.

John M. Olin Foundation.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National Education Association of the United States.

Teachers' unions--United States.

Teachers' unions.

United States.

Educational change--United States.

Educational change.

Academic achievement--United States.

Academic achievement.

Collective bargaining--Teachers--United States.

Collective bargaining.

Collective bargaining--Teachers.

Collective bargaining--Teachers--Wisconsin--Milwaukee.

Wisconsin--Milwaukee.

Schools--United States.

Schools.

School choice--United States.

School choice.

Teachers--Certification--United States.

Teachers.

Teachers--Certification.

Physical Description:

vi, 328 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Teachers unions and educational reform.

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : Brookings Institution Press, [2000]

Summary:

"[The papers in this book] ask whether unions affect educational productivity, most notably in terms of an impact on student achievement. They analyze how teachers union function as professional organizations concerned with the occupation of teaching, as institutional actors defending interests within a bureaucratic system of education, and as political actors wielding influence on legislation and elections. Taken as a whole, these varying perspectives do not provide readers with a simple answer to the question of whether unions help or hurt educational reform. But the book does illustrate the many dimensions of the teachers unions' role in American education..." -- p.2

Contents:

Introduction / Tom Loveless

Reform bargaining and its promise for school improvement / Susan Moore Johnson and Susan M. Kardos

Collective bargaining and public schools / Joe A. Stone

Gaining control of professional licensing and advancement / Dale Ballou and Michael Podgursky

Collective bargaining in Milwaukee public schools / Howard L. Fuller, George A. Mitchell, and Michael E. Hartmann

The NEA and school choice / James G. Cibulka

Teachers unions in hard times / William Lowe Boyd, David N. Plank, and Gary Sykes

Teachers unions and educational research and development / Maris A. Vinovskis

An international perspective on teachers unions / Bruce S. Cooper

Organization around quality : the frontiers of teacher unionism / Charles Taylor Kerchner and Julia E. Koppich

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

..."the Program on Education Policy and Governance at Harvard University invited approximately eighty scholars for a two-day conference on the topic of teachers unions and educational reform, held September 25-26, 1998. Paul Peterson and [Tom Loveless] organized the meeting, and funding was provided was provided by the John M. Olin Foundation and the A. Alfred Taubman Center for State and Local Government at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, [Harvard University]...The papers of that conference are presented as chapters of this book" -- p.2.

ISBN:

0815753047

0815753039

OCLC:

44060788