Transforming Teacher Unions: Fighting for Better Schools and Social Justice - Softcover

9780942961249: Transforming Teacher Unions: Fighting for Better Schools and Social Justice

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0942961242 ISBN 13: 9780942961249

Publisher: Rethinking Schools Ltd, 1999

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.

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From the Back Cover:

"This collection challenges myths. It is essential reading for anyone who cares about the future of public education. For teachers and parents, this book is a practical, hands-on resource with tools, thought-provoking articles, and examples of what progressive unions are doing." (Mark Simon, president of one of NEA's largest union locals).

About the Author:

Bob Peterson has been a teacher union activist for the past two decades. He has been a building rep, a member of the Executive Board of the Milwaukee Teachers Education Association, and a delegate to the NEA national assembly. A fifth grade teacher, he was winner of Wisconsin's Elementary Teacher of the Year Award in 1995. He is a founding editor of the quarterly journal, Rethinking Schools. Michael Charney has been a member of the Executive Board of the Cleveland Teacher Union for over a decade as the middle school representative. He edits the Critique, the newspaper of the CTU, and Ohio Teacher, the publication of the Ohio Federation of Teachers. In 1996, he was awarded the AFT's Robert Porter Award.

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