The American public has increasingly heard that teacher unions and
quality education are contradictory terms and that unions are
responsible for the ???failure??? of public schools. Many critics
of the unions would cheerfully channel public funds to largely
nonunion private and parochial schools as ???free market???
alternatives.
The present volume, edited by friends of the teacher unions and
featuring contributions by prominent education scholars as well as
union activists, has a far more positive perspective on the
achievements and value of teacher unions and our public education
system. The collection does not avoid critical examination of the
teacher unions, however. Moreover, taken as a whole, it speaks to
the need for continuing reform and renovation within the unions
themselves, and it affirms a need for innovation and competition
within public education as a way of enhancing its quality.
Toward those ends, the volume first reviews the substantial
contributions that teachers and their unions have made to the well
being of their members and the education of students over more than
a hundred years. It then explores collective bargaining as it
affects reform and educational quality. It continues by examining
the real-world outcomes of education in unionized environments;
taking an inside look at a turn toward bipartisanship in the
NEA??'s political and lobbying activities; and analyzing the
unions??? recent record in shaping education legislation and
policy. The book also examines teacher union activities in higher
education; the innovative work of local ???reform??? unions; union
support for education research and development; and the shape of a
teacher unionismspecifically organized to promote educational
quality. The volume concludes by tracing the development and
current activities of international education associations as
defenders???in both the developed and developing countries???of the
teaching profession and of the rights of all children to a quality
education.
This book is no mere reverie on a heroic union past. It is
instead an exploration of past and present as prologues to the
manifold possibilities for enhancing the unions??? contributions to
quality public education.
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