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

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  • 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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