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- Title
THE STATE OF OUR UNIONS: HOW PRESIDENT OBAMA'S EDUCATION REFORMS THREATEN THE WORKING CLASS.
- Authors
de Sousa, Monica Teixeira
- Abstract
The "teachers' union" vs. "reformer" divide is catchy for journalists, because it fits into a familiar narrative of "might" vs. "right," but teachers' unions were created for a reason - because teachers were paid less than people who washed cars for a living and were bossed around by autocratic principals. Seeking to obliterate collective bargaining agreements is something out of Wal-Mart's handbook and ought not win you a puff piece from Time. If the right-wing educational reforms now being championed by the Obama administration and many state governments continue unchallenged, America will become a society in which a highly trained, largely white elite will continue to command the techno-information revolution, while a vast, low-skilled majority of poor and minority workers will be relegated to filling the McJobs proliferating in the service sector. The children of the rich and privilege [sic] will be educated in exclusive private schools and the rest of the population, mostly poor and nonwhite, will be offered bare forms of pedagogy suitable to work in the dead end low skill service sector of society, assuming that these jobs will be available. Teachers will lose most of their rights, protections and dignity and be treated as clerks of the empire.
- Subjects
UNITED States; EDUCATIONAL change; TEACHERS' unions; COLLECTIVE bargaining; TEACHERS; EDUCATIONAL law &; legislation; LEGAL status of teachers; OBAMA, Barack, 1961- -- Political &; social views
- Publication
University of Louisville Law Review, 2011, Vol 50, Issue 2, p201
- ISSN
1942-9274
- Publication type
Article