Product Description: Something is terribly wrong with America's public school system.For decades, we have seen test scores slide or stagnate (today fewer than twenty percent of our nation's twelfth graders are proficient in math, and our students rank near the bottom in science and math among the industrialized nations of the world) and achievement gaps persist or widen...read more

This timely and comprehensive volume will spur and strengthen public debate over the role of teachers unions in education reform for years to come. Collective bargaining shapes the way public schools are organized, financed, staffed, and operated. Understanding collective bargaining in education and its impact on the day-to-day life of schools is critical to designing and implementing reforms that will successfully raise student achievement. But when it comes to public discussion of school reform, teachers unions are the proverbial elephant in the room. Despite the tremendous influence of teachers unions, there has not been a significant research-based book examining the role of collective bargaining in education in more than two decades. As a result, there is little basis for a constructive, empirically grounded dialogue about the role of teachers unions in education today.

A hard-hitting critique of the American educational system identifies the teacher's unions as the source of many of the current problems with the nation's schools. Reprint. 15,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Product Description: In this startling expose, Lieberman shows how the teachers' unions raise and spend vast sums to maintain their power over education and to push a narrow political agenda. Even dues-paying teachers will be angered to learn how their unions stifle dissent, sabotage meaningful reform, and hold parents hostage to bureaucracy...read more

Product Description: Ask people whether teachers unions are good or bad for education and you are likely to receive a wide variety of opinions. A 1998 Gallup Poll asked whether teachers unions helped, hurt, or made no difference in the quality of education in U...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This stimulating anthology weaves together issues of teacher unionism, classroom reform, working with local communities, and social justice. Includes exemplary practices of teacher unions from the local to the national level. Useful for anyone working in or with teacher unions today...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: An introduction and companion to United Mind Workers, one of the most provocative educational reform books of the 90s. This booklet is the ultimate study-group discussion starter on teacher's union reform. Taking Charge of Quality outlines proposals for improving the quality of teaching, touching on issues such as standards, peer review, career ladders, hiring halls, school-based compacts, and teacher accountability...read more

An experienced contracts negotiator for teachers' unions reveals how the nation's largest teachers' unions have blocked efforts to reform public education, diverted taxpayer money to partisan political causes, and suppressed dissent within their ranks. 17,500 first printing. Tour. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This new model of teacher unions is organized around issues of quality teaching and professional development, as well as economic fairness. The authors propose strategies for expanding the influence of unions by involving them in the setting of educational standards, evaluating teacher performance, and promoting career security...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book helps school administrators see the many contradictions between the underlying concepts of traditional collective bargaining and the important goals that many school districts seek today, especially decision making based on the informed opinions of all stakeholders in the school...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This valuable resource guide provides ideas about how to improve school labor relations by incorporating the principles of Total Quality Management. It presents key historical concepts, necessary tools and important strategies for transforming the current status of school labor relations into one characterized by trust and openness, with the emphasis on students...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In a landmark contribution to the education literature, Berube examines the political activities of the two teachers' unions--the National Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers AFL-CIO (AFT) during the last three decades...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)