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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… More >>
Collective Bargaining in Education: Negotiating Change in Today’s Schools
Tags: Bargaining, Change, Collective, Education, Negotiating, Schools, Today's
#1 by Ryan Grant on April 18, 2010 - 7:24 pm
This is certainly a wonkish book; when you have chapters with more than 100 citations, you’ve almost certainly written something scholarly. For anyone interested in in teachers unions and collective bargaining, though, this is a very important book. The chapters by Frederick Hess and Dan Goldhaber especially add important elements to the discussion, and the flow to the book as a whole makes sense. I mark it down slightly because of some dull spots (the chapter by Paul Hill, for example, isn’t needed), but it’s still recommended.
Rating: 4 / 5