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A higher-ed unionist’s view of the performance-pay debate
Corey Bunje Bower criticized a Newsweek column by Jonathan Alter and has the following response to Alter’s slur against teacher unions: Perhaps the most ridiculous thing that Alter writes — and the statement that gives away the ideological underpinnings of his argument if anybody wasn’t already aware — is that unions “still believe that protecting […]
Teachers and the public sphere
Partially drafted in Chicago Sunday evening, July 13, and revised July 17: I’m listening to Susan Ohanian at the moment, talking to a group of about 50 AFT delegates and others. Ohanian is a well-known opponent of NCLB and academic standards and was invited to speak at an event sponsored by the AFT Peace and […]
Know what union membership means before you write, Ray
Ray Fisman wrote a laudatory article released Friday by Slate about NYC’s P.S. 49 principal Anthony Lombardi, an article with themes remarkably similar to what Robert Kolker wrote for New York Magazine in 2003, even down to quoting Randi Weingarten calling Lombardi a tyrant without crediting Kolker. Fisman links to an Inside Schools page summarizing […]
My AFT convention
Being a Florida delegate at the AFT convention is much easier than being a delegate at the NEA convention: NEA delegates must be at the Florida Education Association daily caucus at 7 am (which is still easier than the FEA leadership, who have a 6 am meeting before the state’s 7 am caucus). Here in […]
Weingarten on eve of the AFT elections
I’ve now seen Randi Weingarten speak three times in the last 30 hours, to different audiences and for different purposes. I can see how articulate and comfortable she is in different settings, including when challenged by one AFT delegate on an issue close to his heart. My (admittedly incomplete) judgment is that she is whip-smart, […]