Unionization and Productivity: Evidence from Charter Schools This paper studies the relationship
between teacher unionization and student achievement.
Not exact matches
What lies behind this relationship
between teachers»
unionization and support for charter schools?
Public policy and
unionization may have severed the link
between the skill of
teachers and their wages or schooling;
teachers may be as capable as ever.
Each chapter narrates one episode in the American history of teaching: how teaching became a feminized profession; initial movements toward the
unionization of teaching; early teaching in segregated black schools; McCarthy - era attacks on
teachers for their politics; conflicts
between (mostly white)
teachers and (mostly black and Latino) local control advocates; and then on through A Nation at Risk, No Child Left Behind, and Race to the Top.
Unionization and the introduction of collective bargaining can be expected to increase average pay for all
teachers but reduce the difference
between average pay and the pay received by those with both high and low aptitudes, thereby discouraging entry into teaching by women with higher aptitude while attracting those with lower aptitudes.
The
unionization efforts at Alliance schools, which began earlier this year, have touched off the latest proxy war in LA Unified
between the union and charter schools, which typically hire non-union
teachers.