Kahlenberg Tough Liberal

Albert Shanker and the Battles Over Schools, Unions, Race, and Democracy
Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-0-231-50909-1
Verlag: Columbia University Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 552 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Columbia Studies in Contemporary American History

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kahlenberg, Richard D.

Kahlenberg, Richard

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politikerbiographien
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Geschichte der Pädagogik, Richtungen in der Pädagogik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Biographien & Autobiographien: Historisch, Politisch, Militärisch

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Part 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 Shanker
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

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.