Tough Liberal - Albert Shanker Battles Over Schools, Unions, Race, Democracy

Informationen zum Autor Richard D. Kahlenberg is a senior fellow at The Century Foundation and the author of All Together Now: Creating Middle-Class Schools through Public School Choice; The Remedy: Class! Race! and Affirmative Action; and Broken Contract: A Memoir of Harvard Law School. Klappentext Albert Shanker (1928-1997) lived the lives of several men bound into one. In his early years! he helped to found modern teacher unionism. During the 1980s! as head of the American Federation of Teachers! he became the nation's leading education reformer. Shanker supported initiatives for high education standards and accountability! teacher-led charter schools! and a system of "peer review" to weed out inadequate teachers. He also fought for "tough liberalism!" an ideology favoring public education and trade unions but also colorblind policies and a robust anticommunism& mdash;all of which! Shanker believed! were vital to a commitment to democracy. Richard D. Kahlenberg is the first to offer a complete narrative of one of the most important voices in public education and American politics in the last half century. Inhaltsverzeichnis IntroductionPart 1. New York 1. The Early Years: Rising from Humble Beginnings and Establishing Values (1928-1952)2. Creating the United Federation of Teachers (1952-1962)3. Rising Within the UFT: Labor and Civil Rights Together (1962-1965)4. Black Power and the 1967 Teachers' Strike (1966-1968)5. The Ocean Hill-Brownsville Strike and the Liberal Assault on Labor (1968)6. Ocean Hill-Brownsville: The Fallout (1969)7. Rebuilding: Recruiting the Paraprofessionals! Launching the "Where We Stand" Column! and Seeking Teacher Unity (1969-1972)8. Becoming President of the American Federation of Teachers and Battling the New Politics Movement (1972-1974)9. "A Man by the Name of Albert Shanker": Sleeper and the Controversy of Power (1973-1975)10. Losing Power: The New York Fiscal Crisis and the Decline of Labor (1974-1976) Part 2. Washington 11. Jimmy Carter and the Rise of the Reagan Democrats (1976-1980)12. Being a Social Democrat Under Ronald Reagan: Domestic Policy (1980-1988)13. Being a Social Democrat Under Ronald Reagan: Foreign Policy (1980-1988)14. Education Reform: A Nation at Risk! Merit Pay! and Peer Review (1983-1984)15. Beyond Special Interest: Making Teaching a Profession (1985-1987)16. Charter Schools and School Restructuring (1988-1997)17. The Early Education-Standards Movement (1989-1994)18. The Rise of the Angry White Males and the Gingrich Revolution (1992-1995)19. Reviving the Education-Standards Movement and the Final Days (1995-1997) Part 3. Legacy 20. The Legacy of Albert ShankerAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsNotesBibliographyIndex ...

Product details

• Authors: Richard Kahlenberg, Richard D. Kahlenberg, Kahlenberg Richard D.
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.07.2009
• EAN: 9780231134972
• ISBN: 978-0-231-13497-2
• No. of pages: 552
• Series: Columbia Studies in Contemporary American History; Columbia Studies in Contempora; Columbia Studies in Contemporary American History; Columbia Studies in Contempora
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political administration; Education, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political, Biography: general, Biography, EDUCATION / History, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century