Teacher Unions and Social Justice
Organizing for the Schools and Communities Our Students Deserve
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Publisher Description
Teacher Unions and Social Justice is 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.
About the Author
Michael Charney taught social studies in the Cleveland Public Schools for more than 30 years. He served as vice president of the Cleveland Teachers Union, where he led efforts to motivate teachers and paraprofessionals to change their schools.
Jesse Hagopian teaches Ethnic Studies and is the co-adviser to the Black Student Union at Garfield High School in Seattle. He is a Rethinking Schools editor, co-editor of Teaching for Black Lives, co-editor of, Black Lives Matter at School, and editor of More Than a Score: The New Uprising Against High-Stakes Testing.
Bob Peterson is a founding editor of Rethinking Schools, a former president of the Milwaukee Teachers’ Education Association, and currently serves on the Milwaukee Board of School Directors. He is co-editor of several books, including The New Teacher Book, Rethinking Elementary Education, and Rethinking Columbus.
Customer Reviews
Defending the indefensible
The public school system has been spitting out students of worse and worse educational quality over the past few decades. How can we fix this? This book, commendably free of the jargon and high prices of typical academic works, has no idea. Student achievement is rarely mentioned as a desirable goal. Instead, we are told that more money and more unionism will enable teachers to do their job. Considering that in the last decade or so expenditures have tripled and achievement has continued its slide towards zero, this is very hard for me to believe. Educators want cooperation but I would say only the spur of competition gives even the tiniest hope that students will once again learn and take pride in their work.