Conflicting missions?
teachers unions and educational reform
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Author
Contributions
- Loveless, Tom, 1954- - Contributor
Publication
2000 - Brookings Institution Press, Washington, D.C, District of Columbia
Language
English
Word Count
82,000 words, Guess
Page Count
328 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL16976157M
- ISBN-100815753047
- OCLC Control Number44060788
- OCLC Control Numberconflictingmissi0000love
- Library of Congress Control Number00008614
and 2 more
- Goodreads1999437
- LibraryThing4853539
Classifications
- LCCLB2844.53.U62 C66 2000
Alternate Titles
- Teachers unions and educational reform
Description
"[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
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