Moore Johnson, Suan and Susan M Kardos "Reform Bargaining and Its Promise for School Reform"
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Loveless, Tom. 2000. Conflicting missions. Teachers Unions and Educational Reform The Brookings Institution, Washington, DC.
- reform Bargaining: teachers unions recognizing common interests with schools, working collaboratively with school administrators (8)
- in teh US, there was teh factory model of schooling, which has since been replaced by the professional model of schooling (8-9)
- "Teachers must approach their work as a craft or prfession rather than as routine labor, and schools must be organized to encourage them to do so." (9)
- bureaucracy, union or otherwise, can stifle innovation and make teachres and schools unable to respond to the varied needs of students and communites (11-12)
- but importantly one urban principal once declared that the thick, phone-book size contracts were actually an indictment of past administrations, namely their wilingness to abuse teachers (12)
- industrial bargaining led to better pay and faier, more reasonable work environment, yet they also limited the roels teachers could play, overly supported weak teachers (tenure), etc (17)
- good for dividing resources, bad for facing educational challenges (19)
- negotiators who improved edcuation suggested it was only possible once unions/teachers had already attained bread adn butter items that regulate basic working conditions (25)
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