Author: United StatesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education, Higher
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Higher Education Opportunity Act
Author: United StatesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education, Higher
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Teachers and Reform
Author: John F. LyonsPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252032721
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Drawing on archival as well as rich interview material, John F. Lyons examines the role of Chicago public schoolteachers and their union, the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU), in shaping the policies and practices of public education in Chicago from 1937 to 1970. From the union's formation in 1937 until the 1960s, the CTU was the largest and most influential teachers' union in the country, operating in the nation's second largest school system. Although all Chicago public schoolteachers were committed to such bread-and-butter demands as higher salaries, many teachers also sought a more rigorous reform of the school system through calls for better working conditions, greater classroom autonomy, more funding for education, and the end of political control of the schools. Using political action, public relations campaigns, and community alliances, the CTU successfully raised members' salaries and benefits, increased school budgets, influenced school curricula, and campaigned for greater equality for women within the Chicago public education system. Examining teachers' unions and public education from the bottom up, Lyons shows how teachers' unions helped to shape one of the largest public education systems in the nation. Taking into consideration the larger political context, such as World War II, the McCarthy era, and the civil rights movements of the 1960s, this study analyzes how the teachers' attempts to improve their working lives and the quality of the Chicago public school system were constrained by internal divisions over race and gender as well as external disputes between the CTU and the school administration, state and local politicians, and powerful business and civic organizations. Because of the obstacles they faced and the decisions they made, unionized teachers left many problems unresolved, but they effected changes to public education and to local politics that still benefit Chicago teachers and the public today.
Urban Education in the United States
Author: J. RuryPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1403981876
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
Urban Education in the United States examines the development of schools in the large cities of the USA. John Rury, a well-known historian of education, introduces and highlights the most significant and classic essays dealing with urban schooling in this collection. Urban Education in the United States will provide an introduction to critical themes in the history of city schools and will frame each section with an overview of urban education research during particular periods in US history.
Education and Political Development. (SPD-4), Volume 4
Author: James Smoot ColemanPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400874955
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 633
Book Description
Volume 4 in the Studies in Political Development Series. Originally published in 1965. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Studies of State Departments of Education
Author: Alina Marie LindegrenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Counseling in higher education
Languages : en
Pages : 716
Book Description
Bulletin - Bureau of Education
Author: United States. Bureau of EducationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 932
Book Description
Educational Directory
Author: Bulletin
Author: United States. Office of EducationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
OECD Territorial Reviews: The Chicago Tri-State Metropolitan Area, United States 2012
Author: OECDPublisher: OECD Publishing
ISBN: 9264170316
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
The OECD Territorial Review of the Chicago Tri-State metropolitan area assesses the region’s capacity to contribute effectively to regional and national economic performance and quality of life.
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