A collective pursuit : teachers' unions and education reform / Lesley Lavery.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lavery, Lesley, 1983- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Charter schools--Minnesota.

Charter schools.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (223 pages)

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ; Rome ; Tokyo : Temple University Press, [2020]

Summary:

"Highlights aspects of union work that may challenge conventional wisdom and argues that teachers' unions are working to reinvigorate the collective in pursuit of changes beneficial to educators, students, and the larger democratic project of public education"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part I: Introduction and Historical Overview. Chapter 1: The Union Debate

Chapter 2: Union History

Part II: Unions in the Charter Sector. Chapter 3: Teacher-Led Unionization in the Charter Sector

Chapter 4: The Unionized Charter Contract

Chapter 5: Top-Down Unionization in the Charter Sector

Part III: Union Work in Context. Chapter 6: The State of the Union

Chapter 7: You Get what you Pay For: Declines and Revolts

Chapter 8: The Problem we all Live with: Race and Reform Realities

Chapter 9: Damned if They Do, Damned if They Don't, Teachers Choose Collective Pursuit.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781439919378

1439919372