How Do Teachers' Unions Influence Education Policy? What We Know and What We Need to Learn. Working Paper #42

Autor/inn/en	Cowen, Joshua; Strunk, Katharine O.
Institution	Michigan State University, Education Policy Center
Titel	How Do Teachers' Unions Influence Education Policy? What We Know and What We Need to Learn. Working Paper #42
Quelle	(2014), (30 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Unions; Educational Policy; Correlation; Collective Bargaining; Political Influences; Decision Making; State Policy; Federal Legislation; Educational Legislation; Elementary Secondary Education; Outcomes of Education; Expenditures; School Districts; Administrators; Contracts; Elections; Educational Change + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Korrelation; Tarifverhandlung; Political influence; Politischer Einfluss; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Bundesrecht; Bildungsrecht; Schulgesetz; Lernleistung; Schulerfolg; Ausgaben; School district; Schulbezirk; Vertrag; Election; Wahl; Bildungsreform
Abstract	In this paper we consider more than three decades of research on teachers' unions in the United States. Focusing on unions' role in shaping education policy, we argue that collective bargaining and political organizing comprise the two central but distinct forms of influence at the district, state and national levels of decision-making. We note recent changes in state policy directly and indirectly affecting unions and union priorities. We argue that these changes may result in a variety of different conditions under which unions operate, and suggest that this variation represents fertile ground for new empirical analyses of union influence. Such work may in turn require a reconsideration of the extent of, and limitations to union power in altered educational landscapes. (As Provided).
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Update	2018/2/05