Understanding The Teacher Union Contract

Author : Myron Lieberman
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 1412840643

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Understanding the Teacher Union Contract by Myron Lieberman Pdf

Unionization of teachers has led to fundamental changes in the management of education and in relations between teachers and school districts. Understanding the Teacher Union Contract explores the implications of this collective-bargaining revolution in education. Through detailed examination Lieberman shows how the kinds of provisions typically found in teacher union contracts affect the educational workplace and education reform, and how they might be revised to the benefit of students, parents, and the public. Lieberman begins with the respective roles of school district management and teacher unions. Unlike managers in the private sector, school district officials are part of a government agency that is legally responsible for operating public schools in the public interest. They must balance the interests of employees with the needs of students, taxpayers, and parents, as well as with district educational goals. Teacher unions' primary objectives are to enhance employee welfare and to promote the union as an effective organization. Unions must balance the differing needs of various groups within their membership -- for example, by resolving tensions between older teachers who want improved retirement benefits and younger teachers who might prefer more rapid salary increases. Lieberman shows how competing union and management goals play out in collective bargaining and are embodied in teacher union contracts. He argues that by developing an understanding of teacher unions, their role, and their needs, district officials and school board members can bargain more effectively and develop a productive ongoing relationship with unions. This highly readable book will be of interestnot only to school administrators and board members but also to teacher representatives, parents, taxpayers, and members of the media who report on education.

Author : Myron Lieberman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Education
ISBN : 0765800144

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Understanding the Teacher Union Contract by Myron Lieberman Pdf

Unionization of teachers has lead to major changes in education management, and in relations between teachers and school districts. This text looks at how teacher union contracts affect the workplace and educational reform, and how they might be revised to benefit the students, parents and public.

Author : Andy Hanson
Publisher : Between the Lines
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781771135696

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Class Action by Andy Hanson Pdf

In this inspiring history of a union, labour historian Andy Hanson delves deep into the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario (ETFO) and how it evolved from two deeply divided unions to one of the province’s most united and powerful voices for educators. Today’s teacher is under constant pressure to raise students’ test scores, while the rise of neoliberalism in Canada has systematically stripped our education system of funding and support. But educators have been fighting back with decades of fierce labour action, from a landmark province-wide strike in the 1970s, to record-breaking front-line organizing against the Harris government and the Common Sense Revolution, to present-day picket lines and bargaining tables. Hanson follows the making of elementary teachers in Ontario as a distinct class of white-collar, public-sector workers who awoke in the last quarter of the twentieth century to the power of their collective strength.

Author : Robert C. O'Reilly
Publisher : Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105032532603

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Understanding Collective Bargaining in Education by Robert C. O'Reilly Pdf

Author : Randall W. Eberts,Joe A. Stone
Publisher : Free Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015008464425

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Unions and Public Schools by Randall W. Eberts,Joe A. Stone Pdf

Examination of the effects of collective bargaining of public education teachers in the USA - covers trade unionization, working conditions and wages, esp. Wage differentials with nonunionized workers, labour disputes, the effect on teaching standards and student performance, labour contracts, resource allocation. Bibliography, graphs and statistical tables.

Author : Jane Hannaway,Andrew J. Rotherham
Publisher : Harvard Education Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2006-02-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781612500089

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Collective Bargaining in Education by Jane Hannaway,Andrew J. Rotherham Pdf

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.

Author : Charles Taylor Kerchner,Julia E. Koppich,Joseph G. Weeres
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1998-08-25
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780787943349

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Taking Charge of Quality by Charles Taylor Kerchner,Julia E. Koppich,Joseph G. Weeres Pdf

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. Includes a resource section.

Author : Kenneth Leithwood,Pat McAdie,Nina Bascia,Anne Rodrigue
Publisher : Corwin Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2006-04-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781483364148

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Teaching for Deep Understanding by Kenneth Leithwood,Pat McAdie,Nina Bascia,Anne Rodrigue Pdf

This well-researched resource draws on the collaborative work between researchers and school practitioners to offer teaching strategies that promote deep understanding and higher-order thinking in students.

Author : Michael Charney,Jesse Hagopian,Bob Peterson
Publisher : Rethinking Schools
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0942961099

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Teacher Unions and Social Justice by Michael Charney,Jesse Hagopian,Bob Peterson Pdf

An anthology of more than 60 articles documenting the history and the how-tos of social justice unionism. Together, they describe the growing movement to forge multiracial alliances with communities to defend and transform public education.

Author : Robert C. Enlow,Lenore T. Ealy
Publisher : Cato Institute
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-25
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781933995373

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Liberty & Learning by Robert C. Enlow,Lenore T. Ealy Pdf

Fifty years ago, Milton Friedman had the ground-breaking idea to improve public education with school vouchers. By separating government financing of education from government administration of schools, Friedman argued, “parents at all income levels would have the freedom to choose the schools their children attend.” Liberty & Learning is a collection of essays from the nation’s top education experts evaluating the progress of Friedman’s innovative idea and reflecting on its merits in the 21st century. The book also contains a special prologue and epilogue by Milton Friedman himself. The contributors to this volume take a variety of approaches to Friedman’s voucher idea. All of them assess the merit of Friedman’s plan through an energetic, contemporary perspective, though some authors take a theoretical position, while others employ a very pragmatic approach.

Author : Michael H. Moskow
Publisher : Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of Finance and Commerce, Industrial Research Unit
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Education
ISBN : STANFORD:36105033369963

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Teachers and Unions by Michael H. Moskow Pdf

Author : Anthony M. Cresswell,Michael J. Murphy,Charles T. Kerchner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015062413862

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Teachers, Unions, and Collective Bargaining in Public Education by Anthony M. Cresswell,Michael J. Murphy,Charles T. Kerchner Pdf

Teachers, Unions, and Collective Bargaining in Public Education addresses the most important aspects of the collective bargaining system.

Author : Alfie Kohn
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Education
ISBN : 0618083456

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The Schools Our Children Deserve by Alfie Kohn Pdf

Arguing against the tougher standards rhetoric that marks the current education debate, the author of No Contest and Punished by Rewards writes that such tactics squeeze the pleasure out of learning. Reprint.

Author : John Jesse Cheslock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Academic achievement
ISBN : CORNELL:31924082801030

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How Teacher Unions Affect Educational Performance by John Jesse Cheslock Pdf

Author : Charlene K. Haar
Publisher : Education Policy Inst
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0966955528

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Teacher Unions and Parent Involvement by Charlene K. Haar Pdf

This booklet, part of the Education Policy Institute series about teacher union issues, clarifies the concept of parent involvement in educational reform, analyzing the treatment of parents in collective bargaining contracts between teacher unions and school boards and in union policy resolutions. Chapter 1 introduces the issue, offering an overview of the National Education Association (NEA) and American Federation of Teachers (AFT). Chapter 2 presents NEA/AFT policies related to parents, discussing NEA resolutions, AFT resolutions, parents in NEA's legislative agenda, NEA publications, and AFT publications. Overall, all NEA AFT materials on parent involvement define it in ways that strengthen or do not challenge teacher and union roles in education. Chapter 3 discusses how parents are treated in teacher bargaining and teacher union contracts with school districts, including actual union proposals and articles excerpted from teacher union/school district contracts. Chapter 4 reviews teacher union relations with the National PTA and its state and local affiliates. These relations help explain how collective bargaining affects parent involvement. Chapter 5 summarizes the issue, noting the huge gap between union rhetoric and union practice regarding parent involvement. The rhetoric praises and urges involvement, while the practice discourages it. The NEA and AFT use parent involvement more to support union policy and legislative objectives than to help children learn. (Contains 44 endnotes.) (SM)