Throughout the world, teachers and their unions have played a crucial role in politics and democracy. This election, they can play a similar role in the US.
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Teachers find their workloads difficult to manage – and the government is struggling to recruit people to the sector.
Kenya faces the challenge of delivering quality education without discriminating against learners based on social or economic background.
Dividing students into classroom streams has been the status quo for decades. So why have New Zealand’s two largest teachers’ unions taken the unprecedented step of announcing plans to phase it out?
Short-term disputes are really symptoms of deeper divisions in the US over who deserves academic opportunity, and how to present the nation’s history.
The reasons have a lot to do with the nature of unions as representative of workers’ views, as well as the importance of protecting their right to bargain.
The inequalities in South Africa’s education are systematically being exposed at a scale not experienced before.
What it means to be a good teacher has changed over time, along with prevailing views on what constitutes appropriate behavior.
Teachers’ unions often claim they are striking for better schools on behalf of students. A closer look at recent strikes suggests they are fighting for something else: membership.
Thwarted efforts to organize at Yale and a New York nursing home show how a changing of the guard at the National Labor Relations Board could potentially end the labor movement.
The Teach for America applicant pool has been showing a steady decline since 2010. New research looks at the reasons why.
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Researcher; Doctoral Student, Texas A&M University
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Professor of Teaching, Learning and Culture, Texas A&M University
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Associate Professor of Education, Michigan State University
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Clinical Professor of Law, University of Chicago; Institute for Humane Studies
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Assistant Professor of Education Policy and Data Visualization, University of Washington, Bothell
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Senior Lecturer in Mathematics Education, University of Canterbury
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Pūkenga Matua: Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Education, University of Canterbury, University of Canterbury
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Professor of Social Work and Education, Loyola University Chicago
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