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Author Lavery, Lesley, 1983- author.

Title A collective pursuit : teachers' unions and education reform / Lesley Lavery
Published Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2020
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Description 1 online resource (223 pages)
Contents Part I: Introduction and Historical Overview. Chapter 1: The Union Debate -- Chapter 2: Union History -- Part II: Unions in the Charter Sector. Chapter 3: Teacher-Led Unionization in the Charter Sector -- Chapter 4: The Unionized Charter Contract -- Chapter 5: Top-Down Unionization in the Charter Sector -- Part III: Union Work in Context. Chapter 6: The State of the Union -- Chapter 7: You Get what you Pay For: Declines and Revolts -- Chapter 8: The Problem we all Live with: Race and Reform Realities -- Chapter 9: Damned if They Do, Damned if They Don't, Teachers Choose Collective Pursuit
Summary "Highlights aspects of union work that may challenge conventional wisdom and argues that teachers' unions are working to reinvigorate the collective in pursuit of changes beneficial to educators, students, and the larger democratic project of public education"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 11, 2020)
Subject Teachers' unions -- Minnesota
Charter schools -- Minnesota
Collective bargaining -- Teachers -- United States
Charter schools
Collective bargaining -- Teachers
Teachers' unions
Minnesota
United States
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019039546
ISBN 1439919372
9781439919378
1439919364
9781439919361