Collective Bargaining in Education: Negotiating Change in Today's Schools

ISBN-10: 1891792725
ISBN-13: 9781891792724
Series: Collective Bargaining in Education
Pages: 312
Language: English
Published: 2006
Publisher: Harvard Education Press
Authors: Andrew J. Rotherham, Jane Hannaway

Description

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.