The Future of Our Schools
Author | : Lois Weiner |
Publisher | : Haymarket Books |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2012 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781608462629 |
ISBN-13 | : 1608462625 |
Rating | : 4/5 (29 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: In The Future of Our Schools, Lois Weiner explains why teachers who care passionately about teaching and social justice need to unite the energy for teaching to efforts to self-govern and transform teacher unions. Drawing on research, her experience as a public school teacher, and as a union activist, she explains how to create the teachers unions public education desperately needs. Lois Weiner is a professor at New Jersey City University and has been a life-long teacher union activist who has served as an officer of three different union locals. She is the author of The Global Assault on Teaching, Teachers, and their Unions: Stories for Resistanc e .