Teachers Evaluating Teachers: Peer Review and the New Unionism

Teachers Evaluating Teachers: Peer Review and the New Unionism
ISBN-10
1412835607
ISBN-13
9781412835602
Category
Education
Pages
160
Language
English
Publisher
Transaction Publishers
Author
Myron Lieberman

Description

As a writer on education reform, Myron Lieberman has criticized America's two largest teacher organizations - the National Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) - for standing in the way of needed improvement in our system of public education. One of the most telling criticisms of these organizations is that they have been too quick to defend teachers charged with incompetence. In response to this charge from Lieberman and others, the NEA and the AFT have championed a "new unionism," under which the teacher unions themselves, and their local affiliates, assume responsibility for ensuring teacher competence by instituting peer review systems.

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