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Winds of change in US teacher unions
Lois Weiner February 18, 2010

Though you wouldn’t know it from the mass media, which focuses its attention on the way teacher unions impede “educational innovation,” (e.g., standardized testing’s stranglehold; privatization; cuts in funding), we are witnessing a growing swell of reform in teacher unions. Transformation of both national teacher unions is absolutely essential to turn back the neoliberal program that the Obama administration is pushing.

http://labornotes.org/node/2472

Teacher Reformers Prepare for Battle over Public Education

— Paul Abowd

Published 5/13/09 in Edutopia

by Evantheia Schibsted

A recent report found that educators believe that the secret to effective discipline is proactively building relationships, not reacting punitively to student misbehavior. In surveys with 300 New York City public school teachers that included an open-ended question about the largest threat to school safety, the most common response was a lack of cohesive culture and positive relationships between staff and students. (Download a PDF of the report, "Teachers Talk: School Culture, Safety and Human Rights.")

Stop and Reverse the Loss of Teachers of Color

by Sean Ahern

New York Teacher

Speakout Column

Teachers Unite connects educators with community organizers

Posted By Kelly Vaughan On August 27, 2008 @ 10:30 am In Features | No Comments

^[1]Monday night, I stopped by the Teachers Unite ^[2] kick-off and orientation event, interested in learning more about ways that teachers and community based organizations are working together across the city.

“Public schools should and will reflect the communities they are in,” said organizer Sally Lee. “The role of teachers is to work with members of the community to create an educational space that reflects the values of that community.”

To that end, Teachers Unite plans to partner with community based organizations to use teachers’ unique knowledge and skills to strengthen the work of these organizations.

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Letters to the Editor
May 4, 2007
http://www.nysun.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor-2007-05-04/53834/

‘Where Radical Politics and Education Intersect'

Bloomberg Writes His Own Report Card

Thankfully, there's no term limit on the Constitution and its protection of students

By Nat Hentoff

published: September 17, 2008

Our mayor, basking in his 70 percent approval rate, declared on September 3 that the state legislature will surely extend mayoral control of the city's public schools because "the alternative is too devastating to contemplate." That same day, the Daily News irreverently reported: "Dozens of heartbroken 4- and 5-year-olds were turned away from several jampacked elementary schools in Corona, Queens, and put on lengthy waiting lists or told to try back in a couple of weeks."